The Marquette Golden Eagles built a huge lead early in the second half, then coasted to a 70-52 Big East Conference win over visiting DePaul Monday night. Six-foot-eight sophomore Sam Hauser led Marquette scoring for a second straight game with 19 points. Midway through the first half, senior Andrew Rowsey scored the two-thousandth point of his N-C-A-A career. Marquette’s record improves to 13-6, including 4-3 in the Big East. The Golden Eagles take more than a week off, before returning to action January 24th at Xavier.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay scored the last seven points of the game in overtime to beat U-W-Milwaukee 99-92 Monday night. The Panthers held some good-sized leads in the first half and the Phoenix built up a good lead a couple of times after intermission, but the teams were tied when regulation time ended. Three Phoenix players scored more than 20 points, topped by Sandy Cohen’s 29. Kameron Hankerson came off the bench to score 24. For Green Bay, Jeremiah Bell hit five-of-eight 3-pointers on the way to a 26-point night. Brock Stull had 20 points and 10 rebounds. Milwaukee hosts Northern Kentucky Thursday. Green Bay is at home against Wright State.