Fun Facts: Iowa-Marquette

Iowa-Marquette will be televised by FS1. There also is an FS2. Check your cable listings.

Now, on with the Fun Facts.

1. This is the 13th game between Iowa and Marquette, but the first since 1981.

2. Marquette (1-1) lost to Belmont and beat IUPUI in overtime.

3. This is Iowa's only game in Wisconsin this season.

4. Last season was Marquette's first losing season since 1998-99.

5. Iowa has shot 52 three-pointers over its two games. Its opponents have shot 51. That's a lot.

6. Through Wednesday, Hawkeye guard Mike Gesell was tied for second in the nation with Michigan State's Denzel Valentine in assists per game at 10.5. Kahlil Felder of Oakland leads at 12.0, but has played just one game.

7. No Iowa player has averaged 6.0 assists per game for a full season since Andre Woolridge in 1996-97.

8. Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery is 0-2 against Marquette. In his first two seasons as a head coach, his Lehigh teams lost to the then-Warriors.

9. The two teams have players from Wisconsin with similar names. Iowa's Brady Ellingson, who scored 20 points against Coppin State Sunday, is from Sussex, Wis., 22 miles from Milwaukee. Wisconsin's Henry and Wally Ellenson are from Rice Lake, Wis.

10. Freshman Henry Ellenson was the first Marquette recruit to be selected for the McDonald's All-American Game since 1982. He was the co-winner of Wisconsin's Mr. Basketball award last year with Diamond Stone, who now plays for Maryland.

11. Junior Wally Ellenson transferred to Marquette from Minnesota. He was runner-up at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships when at Minnesota. For Marquette, he placed third and fifth at the indoor and outdoor NCAA Championship meets, respectively, earlier this year. He set the Marquette high jump record in his first meet as a Golden Eagle, clearing 7 feet, 5.75 inches. He won both the indoor and outdoor Big East Conference high jump titles.

12. Marquette was named after French Jesuit missionary and explorer Father Jacques Marquette. So was Marquette, Iowa. And the Marquette Building in Chicago. And the Marriott Pere Marquette Hotel in Peoria, Ill.