Youssoupha Mbao News

Lazar Hayward shoots over North Florida's Eni Cuka Jimmy Butler scored a game-high 21 points and junior Joe Fulce added a career-best 13 points as the Marquette Golden Eagles downed the North Florida Ospreys, 78-51 , Saturday afternoon at the Bradley Center.

Marquette will need more days like Joseph Fulce had Saturday. Fulce had collegiate highs of 13 points and 10 rebounds, and Jimmy Butler scored 21 points as short-handed Marquette rolled to a 78-51 victory over North Florida.

Jeronne Maymon goes up for a shot against Maryland during a game in November. Maymon has quit the team.

The Marquette Golden Eagles' modest two-game winning streak against the in-state rival Wisconsin Badgers is over.

Through two games at this weekend's Old Spice Tournament at the Wide World of Sports, the Florida State basketball team has shown flashes of brilliance on both the offensive and defensive ends of the floor.

Marquette received some bad news on the eve of their game against South Dakota when they learned that sophomore center Chris Otule will likely miss the remainder of the season with a broken foot he suffered in practice Monday.A In three games where Otule had been used sparingly against smaller competition, he was averaging 3.7 points and 2.2 ...

Marquette Golden Eagles center Chris Otule, who missed the first 10 games of last season after fracturing his left foot in practice, broke his right foot in practice on Monday night, and will likely miss the rest of this season as a result.

Jimmy Butler made his first collegiate start one to remember. The junior forward scored a career-high 27 points and fell one shy of tying his high with 13 rebounds to lead the Marquette Golden Eagles past Centenary, 85-62, in the teams' opener Friday night at the Bradley Center.

One era of Marquette Golden Eagles' basketball ended in Boise last March, while another will take flight Friday at the Bradley Center.A Six newcomers will take the court Friday night along with the rest of Buzz Williams' roster as they get ready for a season full of mystery that will be solved as the season progresses.

Freshman center Youssoupha Mbao has been sidelined for Marquettea s first two regular season games due to a violation of NCAA amateurism rules.