Marquette Golden Eagles are yet to start their 2025 March Madness but one of their own is already being pressed in the NBA by his own teammates. Oso Ighodaro, who played his last season with Golden Eagles last year, said he is already hearing it from his new colleagues.
The team will make their 2025 debut tomorrow in the first round against New Mexico Lobos.
Trash talk is normal in NBA locker rooms but it is different in the Phoenix Suns. According to Ighodaro, some people around him are already talking smack for the second round.
If the Golden Eagles win, they will advance to the second round to face the winner between the Michigan State Spartans and Bryant Bulldogs.
“Oh yeah. We got a lot of Michigan State guys around here, and they keep talking about the 2nd-round matchup,” he said when asked if his Suns teammates are talking to him about March Madness.
“But at Marquette, we just take it one game at a time….We’re trying to take care of New Mexico first, and then we’ll worry about what’s to come after that.”
He did not name who those guys are but a quick look at the college programs his teammates attended, no one from them came from Michigan state.
Oso Ighodaro’s stock keep on rising
The attention right now is in college basketball but Ighodaro also have eyes watching him because of his increase play in the past weeks.
The 7-foot center logged in at least 20 minutes in all of the last five Suns game. Coincidentally, the team went 3-2 in those games and they are now back in the play-in spot.
His star teammate Devin Booker spoke about Ighodaro’s impact in that stretch together with fellow rookie Ryan Dunn.
“If they were normal cats, I would say that, but those guys are in tune with everything. They love the game of basketball, and when they weren’t in rotation, they were – rightfully so – pissed off, and that’s what you wanna see: some young, hungry players,” he said on Wednesday.
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