Marquette Golden Eagles senior guard Markus Howard needs eight points tonight against the Xavier Musketeers to reach the 2,500 mark for career points. Howard, who is now the leading scorer on Marquette's all-time list, also has a more personal plateau to reach because with 32 points he will be the leading scorer in his own family.
Howard's brother Jordan, scored 2,524 points while playing for Central Arkansas from 2015-18.
Xavier will send two newly minted 1,000-point club players to try to thwart Howard and his teammates from defeating Xavier for the fourth straight time in a series that spans 50 years. Marquette record is 52-24 over Xavier since 1959-59.
Naji Marshall, the scoring leader for the Musketeers owns 1,072 poins and is 48th on the scoring list for Xaver. Tyrique Jones is right behind him with 1,030 points at 53rd place. Josh Carter, who transfered from Ohio University has 981 points, 145 of which he's scored at Xavier.
Xavier (13-7, 2-5) is coming off a 77-66 loss at Creighton on Sunday. The Golden Eagles (14-6,4-4) lost at Butler 89-85 in overtime on Friday.
The Howard brothers is number one for NCAA scoring by brothers. Their 5,016 points is more than Seth and Stephan Curry at 4,736. Tyler and Ben Hansbrough have 4,523. Larry and Eddie Bird scored a total of 4,405 and Chuck and Wesley Person have scored 4,377.
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