Just a lazy early May Wednesday, nothing particularly interesting going on…
NOPE, Jon Rothstein has BUY GAME SCHEDULING NEWS TO REPORT ON TWITTER.
Yes, it involves Marquette men’s basketball, that’s why we’re here.
According to Rothstein, Marquette will host New Hampshire as a non-conference opponent in the 2026-27 season. No word on a date on that one, but it’s pretty safe to guess that it will be somewhere in November or December.
Marquette is 2-0 all time against New Hampshire, and both meetings have happened in the last 20 years. The first one was a 58-53 Marquette win in November of 2013, the second was a 75-70 Marquette win in November 2021. I am begging here: Please beat New Hampshire by at least six points this time. The 2013 win had MU leading by as many as 14 in the second half before the Wildcats slowly cut into it and got within four with under a minute to go. The 2021 win was the second game ever under the direction of Shaka Smart, and the Golden Eagles never led by more than nine points in that game. UNH was actually up 62-59 with five minutes left, but MU went on an 8-0 at that point. That wasn’t enough to finish the Wildcats, who got within one point with less than 30 seconds left, but Justin Lewis hit the free throws MU needed to win.
As to what to expect from New Hampshire next season? Well, Nathan Davis is still the head coach after posting single digit wins in each of the past two seasons. The Wildcats finished the year below #340 in the KenPom.com rankings in each season, and BartTorvik.com’s very early 2027 projections for UNH aren’t predicting that things will get better. New Hampshire sits at #306 over there right now, and they shape up to be the sixth best team in the nine team America East Conference. That is with just nine players listed on the projected roster, although Torvik does show them with two starters returning, three if you count Tyler Bike, who started in their last 14 games of the season. Bike is also the leading returning scorer, but that’s at just 7.5 points per game.
New Hampshire gives us four known Marquette opponents for non-conference play in the 2026-27 season. Wisconsin on December 5th is the only other home game that we know so far, and that joins at Michigan on November 11th and a reported game against Missouri in Chicago on November 15th that hasn’t been officially announced yet. At least seven more non-conference games to go based on previous seasons, so get to work letting us know what’s up, Jon!
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