2025-26 Marquette Men’s Basketball Player Review: #13 Royce Parham

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 talk about exactly how a sophomore breakout broke down…..

Royce Parham

Sophomore — #13 — Forward — 6’8” — 235 lbs. — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Games

Min

FGM

FGA

FG%

3PTM

3PA

3P%

FTM

FTA

FT%

OReb

DReb

Reb

Ast

Stl

Blk

Fouls

Pts

31

28.8

4.6

8.8

52.2%

1.1

3.3

33.3%

2.2

3.3

65.0%

1.9

3.0

4.9

0.9

0.7

0.8

2.0

12.5

ORtg

%Poss

%Shots

eFG%

TS%

OR%

DR%

ARate

TORate

Blk%

Stl%

FC/40

FD/40

FTRate

114.0

19.4%

20.2%

58.4%***

59.9%**

7.0%

12.0%

6.4%

13.8%

3.1%*

1.4%

2.7

3.7

37.6%*

* — Notes a top 500 national ranking per KenPom.com
** — Notes a top 300 national ranking per KenPom.com
*** — Notes a top 200 national ranking per KenPom.com

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WHAT WE SAID:

Reasonable Expectations

The obvious question for 2025-26 when it comes to what to reasonably expect from Royce Parham is “how much growth and development is still in there?” I think everyone would like that answer to be “a lot,” and we can start with the BartTorvik.com algorithm in terms of thinking that might happen. Can I interest you in 11.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 1.2 assists in nearly 28 minutes a game?

Before you get over the top with “woah, that’s a big jump from 5.1/2.2/0.4,” remember that we’re talking about nearly doubling his minutes, too. If you project that out to per-40 minute expectations, that’s going from 13.8 points last year to 16.1 points. 6.0 rebounds last year to 6.7. 1.0 assists to 1.7. It’s not that much more than he was doing, just being a little bit better — the best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores, right? — and getting a lot more minutes. If Parham has had the kind of offseason…

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Publish date : 2026-05-26 14:45:00

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