2025-26 Marquette Men’s Basketball Player Review: #18 Caedin Hamilton

With the 2025-26 season long since in the books, let’s take a few moments to look back at the performance of each member of YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles this year. While we’re at it, we’ll also take a look back at our player previews and see how our preseason prognostications stack up with how things actually played out. We’ll run through the roster in order of total minutes played going from lowest to highest, and today we turn our attention to the biggest lightning rod of the entire season……

Caedin Hamilton

Redshirt Sophomore — #18 — Forward — 6’9” — 250 lbs. — Santa Maria, California

Games

Min

FGM

FGA

FG%

3PTM

3PA

3P%

FTM

FTA

FT%

OReb

DReb

Reb

Ast

Stl

Blk

Fouls

Pts

32

12.9

1.0

2.4

42.3%

0.0

0.1

0.0%

0.8

1.3

67.5%

1.2

1.7

2.9

0.6

0.4

0.4

1.8

2.9

ORtg

%Poss

%Shots

eFG%

TS%

OR%

DR%

ARate

TORate

Blk%

Stl%

FC/40

FD/40

FTRate

95.5

15.9%

12.4%

42.3%

47.9%

9.9%

14.8%

8.3%

22.5%

3.2%

1.9%

5.5

3.2

51.3%

WHAT WE SAID:

Reasonable Expectations

The simplest way forward here is to expect more from Hamilton this season. Last year was 1.5 points and 1.2 rebounds while averaging 6.3 minutes in 29 appearances. In conference games, that was 1.0 points and 1.3 rebounds in 5.7 minutes in 15 appearances.

We’re going to need to see more from him. With the departures of Kam Jones, David Joplin, and Stevie Mitchell, pretty much everyone who’s coming back from last year need to step up a bit. How much is dependent on each guy and the role they project for this season, and for Hamilton, the bare minimum is more than what he did last year.

From there, the expectations for him are somewhat situationally dependent. Based on what we saw last year, Hamilton is a 5 in the eyes of the coaching staff. If that’s still the case this year, then how the staff decides to approach “who’s playing center?” affects what to expect from Hamilton. If Ben Gold is the starting center and exclusively the 5, then Hamilton is fighting with Joshua Clark for the remaining 10-12 minutes a game. If it’s Gold starts but floats over the 4 as Hamilton and…

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Publish date : 2026-05-08 14:45:00

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