The Marquette Redmen (Marquette, MI) basketball crushed the host Escanaba Eskymos (Escanaba, MI), 85-51 in Wednesday's league bout.

The Redmen now possess a 17-2 record. They play next when they host Negaunee for a non-league bout on Friday, February 14. Marquette will play a Miners team coming off a 60-55 non-league loss to Gladstone (Gladstone, MI). The Miners record now stands at 13-7.

With the loss, Escanaba falls to 8-13 on the campaign. The Eskymos host Gwinn (Gwinn, MI) to play the Modeltowners in a non-league bout on Wednesday, February 19. The Modeltowners go into the bout with a record of 8-12. Gwinn won 51-25 in their recent non-league bout against Jeffers (Painesdale, MI)