The Marquette boys basketball looks to have a solid mix of experience, size and talent returning entering the 2025-26 season.

However, the Crusaders will be without their two returning senior starters, top-scoring guard Alec Novotney and do a little bit of everything Matt Graham, for at least the first couple months of the season.

“We’ll have some size which will help, and we’ll have some experience back as well,” Marquette coach Todd Hopkins said, who has accumulated a 178-90 record in just over nine seasons as head coach.

“We will be down a couple starters with Novotney out until probably the middle of January recovering from a [non-shooting/throwing, left] shoulder surgery and Matt out for a while, it’s really still unclear how long, with an injury he suffered to his shoulder durin

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