Darius Johnson-Odom
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Darius Johnson-Odom, born in 1989, is an American basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 player for the Marquette Golden Eagles
Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball
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. Johnson-Odom was born in Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
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 and is currently a junior. He plays the shooting guard position. He stands at 6-2 and weighs in at 200 pounds. He wears the number 1. He transferred to the Marquette Golden Eagles
Marquette Golden Eagles
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 from a junior college where he was one of the best junior college basketball players in the country. He was the starting shooting guard and is very able to shoot threes and can also drive and run the floor. His career high for points is 24 which was against Villanova in the Big East tournament. In Marquette's loss to Washington in the first round of the NCAA tournament he had 19 points. As a senior, Johnson-Odom was named to the Preseason All-Big East First Team.

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