Here’s a quick look at this afternoon’s game between Marquette and Georgetown in Milwaukee.

Probable Starting Lineups (season statistics in parenthesis):

MARQUETTE (18-2, 7-0 Big East):

G Dominic James (11.6 ppg, 5.4 apg)

G Jerel McNeal (19.4 ppg, 48 3-pointers)

G Wesley Matthews (19.0 ppg, 5.5 rpg)

F Lazar Hayward (16.3 ppg, 8.7 rpg)

F Dwight Burke (2.9 ppg, 3.8 rpg)

GEORGETOWN (12-7, 3-5):

G Chris Wright (11.6 ppg, 3.0 rpg)

G Jessie Sapp (6.5 ppg, 4.1 rpg)

G Austin Freeman (12.2 ppg, 3.8 rpg)

F DaJuan Summers (14.9 ppg, 4.3 rpg)

C Greg Monroe (14.1 ppg, 7.8 rpg)

This game might not be a must win for the Hoyas, but it has to be getting pretty close. Georgetown has lost four straight, the last two coming to Big East basement-dwellers Seton Hall and Cincinnati. The Golden Eagles are coming off a road win against Notre Dame, no small feat even given the trouble the Irish have had of late.

I can’t really see a situation in which Greg Monroe doesn’t go nuts for Georgetown today, so look for Marquette to take the Luke Harangody approach they used on Monday. Basically, they’ll probably allow Monroe his points and try to shut down everyone else, betting that one guy can’t beat them. No official word yet on whether DaJuan Summers will play with an ankle injury suffered against Cincinnati. My guess is yes, but he won’t be 100 percent.

You know the drill for Marquette — good perimeter defense led by Jerel McNeal, Dominic James and Wesley Matthews, weak frontcourt that can’t afford to get in foul trouble and don’t fall in love with the 3-pointer.

Should be a good one today, we’ll have more as we go.

Jonny Flynn (courtesy some guy on YouTube) drags his shorts over Mike Rosario’s face on the way to the bucket.

While Mike Rosario continues to recover from having his face rearranged by, well, Jonny Flynn’s crotch, Syracuse preps for an unbelievable stretch.  The Orange takes on 8 ranked (formerly 9 – thanks WVU) teams over its next 10 games.  The journey begins with Georgetown tomorrow.

A couple of thoughts going into this one…

- Jim Boeheim has said Syracuse has the toughest Big East schedule, probably — regardless of how “easy” the start was.  To be fair, the ease of those first four games cannot be discounted.  While USF and Rutgers did give scares at points in those two games, the ORange was (and is) better than all four teams it has beaten.  SU took care of business and has gotten by an easy stretch without tripping – see ND vs. SJU.  It’s also important because the Orange is 4-0.  Figure SU goes 5-5 over this next 10 game spin…the Orange is still 9-5!  That sounds better than 5-5 had this 10 game spurt been the start to SU’s conference slate.  So, the early schedule ease mattered.

-It will be interesting to see the Monroe/Onuaku match-up.  These guys are not the same player and Monroe will likely try to pull AO out to the perimeter.  Figure SU will play some zone to combat the issue.

-16-1 is SU’s second best start ever.  The Orange went 17-0 en route to a 19-0 start in 1999-00.  Jason Hart and the ‘Cuse lost in the Sweet 16 that year.  for the record, SU was 14-3 to begin the national title year.  All three losses came on the road.  Nobody named Cedric Jackson, and no 60-foot shots, were involved.