Marquette is on a four-game streak of home wins, while Roanoke-Benson is on a ten-game streak of away wins (dating back to last season): one of those streaks is about to end. The Marquette Crusaders will host the Roanoke-Benson Rockets at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Last Monday, Marquette was fully in charge, breezing past Putnam County 57-20. The game marked the Crusaders' most dominant victory of the season.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Roanoke-Benson). They blew past Midland 66-33 on Monday. The Rockets have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won 11 matches by 20 points or more this season.
Marquette has also been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 20-9 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 53.1 points per game. As for Roanoke-Benson, their win bumped their record up to 23-5.
Marquette was able to grind out a solid victory over Roanoke-Benson when the teams last played back in January, winning 51-43. Will Marquette repeat their success, or does Roanoke-Benson have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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