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I’m not really sure precisely why the Big East waited until the final matches of the 2025 volleyball season were played before announcing the bracketing for the conference tournament. None of the Sunday matches had any impact on the seeding as Creighton had locked up the outright title with a win on Saturday, and Villanova […]
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Marquette volleyball went into the last weekend of the regular season knowing that they needed help to end up as the #3 seed in the Big East tournament. They didn’t get that help, but that didn’t slow the Golden Eagles down from stacking two more wins in their final two contests. On Saturday, Marquette ripped […]
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One of the core tenets of what head coach Shaka Smart is doing with his Marquette men’s basketball teams is getting 32 deflections in a game. Another core tenet is getting eight kills — coming up with a defensive stop three times in a row on eight different occasions — in a game. Marquette finished […]
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Back on Wednesday, Marquette women’s basketball announced the signing of their committed players for the Class of 2026. Of course, that means that head coach Cara Consuegra announced the signing of Se’Crette Carter, and that’s it. Let’s do the basic breakdowns here before we get to a larger conversation about this. First, the press release […]
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THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (3-1) vs Maryland Terrapins (2-1) THE DATE: Saturday, November 15, 2025 THE TIME: 1pm Central THE LOCATION: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin THE SPECIAL EVENT: Marquette legend Jerel McNeal will be honored with a banner in the rafters at halftime. THE NOT SO SPECIAL EVENT: Buzz Williams is the head coach […]
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You have to set some parameters as to how you want to think about Marquette women’s basketball’s 71-55 victory over Bowling Green on Friday night at the McGuire Center. Thinking about how Marquette went up 15-9 in the first 9:05 after losing by over 40 points to Minnesota? Pretty fun! Thinking about how Marquette ran […]
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Name: University of Maryland, College Park Typo! Nope. It’s supposed to be a comma, not a hyphen like a normal state college system. Why? No idea, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to try and figure out punctuation decisions that were made over 100 years ago. Founded: 1856 Location: College Park, Maryland That’s not helpful. As is often the case […]
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So here’s a fun fact that I learned from the seventh paragraph of the official Marquette preview for this weekend: The Golden Eagles have already clinched a spot in the four team Big East tournament next week. Three teams (Creighton, Xavier, Marquette) have qualified for the tournament, while Villanova and UConn battle for the fourth […]
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It’s times like this where it would be fun to be a fly on the wall in the McGuire Center. If you’re Marquette head coach Cara Consuegra, it’s not difficult to rally your troops after a close loss. I don’t know what the process is for rallying them after a 43 point loss like they […]
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The fall signing period for the 2026 recruiting class started up on Wednesday, and Marquette men’s basketball has already concluded their business of signing their committed prospects. Ethan Johnston, Nash Walker, and Alex Egbuonu all turned in their paperwork on Wednesday and were officially announced as part of the team. Here’s what Marquette head coach […]
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Through the first 10 minutes and change against Little Rock at Fiserv Forum on Wednesday night, you’d be hard pressed to figure out that Marquette men’s basketball was coming off a 23 point loss to Indiana on Sunday. You would have also been hard pressed to figure out that Marquette had relatively recently discovered that […]
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THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (2-1) vs Little Rock Trojans (1-1) THE DATE: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 THE TIME: 7pm Central THE LOCATION: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin THE TELEVISION: Nope. We went over this for the opener. THE STREAMING: ESPN+ with Josh Maurer & Brian Butch on the call THE RADIO: 94.5 FM/ESPN Milwaukee, available online via The Varsity Network. THE […]
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Y’all. I had this very stupid idea a while back. I forget when I first noticed that some people were putting out NCAA tournament bracket projections before Christmas. But I remember looking at one of them and seeing one of the top seeds with a horrific loss already and there they were, with one of […]
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On Tuesday night, Marquette women’s basketball ventured up to the Land of 10,000 Lakes for a non-conference game against Minnesota. For a variety of reasons — one of which is that I’ll be cold and dead in the ground before I give $13 to the Big Ten — I ended up not logging in to […]
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Name: University of Arkansas at Little Rock Founded: UALR traces its history back to 1927 when Little Rock Senior High School started offering secondary education classes as Little Rock Junior College. It operated in that manner, serving the needs of the community at large, through 1957, when it became a privatized four year degree institution […]
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The good news about what happened on Saturday is that the game never completely got away from Marquette, and that left the door open for the Golden Eagles — and in particular Skylar Forbes — to blast through said open door and grab an overtime win over Wisconsin. The bad news about what happened is […]
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One week of the college basketball season is already over! We’ve learned a little bit about everybody in the Big East, but not a lot, and full season outcomes and destinations are far from being written in stone. We’ll learn a little bit more as Week #2 rolls along, and you’re going to need that […]
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There was business to be handled against two of the lesser teams in the Big East this weekend at the McGuire Center, and business was very much handled indeed. On Friday, Marquette volleyball went out and got a 3-0 (25-21, 25-15, 25-17) over St. John’s to eliminate the Red Storm from Big East tournament contention. […]
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If you listen carefully, you can hear the net pop after Tucker DeVries hit another shot at the United Center. We could probably spend a whole hell of a long time dissecting exactly what went wrong for Marquette men’s basketball down in the Windy City on the first Sunday of the 2025-26 season, but here’s […]
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THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (2-0) vs RV Indiana Hoosiers (1-0) THE OFFICIAL NAME: The Waterkeeper Alliance Invitational THE WHAT? Waterkeeper Alliance. Our VisionWe are a global movement united for clean, healthy, and abundant water for all people and the planet. Our MissionWe protect our right to clean water in communities around the world. Our […]
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THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (2-0) vs RV Indiana Hoosiers (1-0) THE OFFICIAL NAME: The Waterkeeper Alliance Invitational THE WHAT? Waterkeeper Alliance. Our VisionWe are a global movement united for clean, healthy, and abundant water for all people and the planet. Our MissionWe protect our right to clean water in communities around the world. Our […]
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The bad times started with 3:47 left in the first quarter on Saturday afternoon at the McGuire Center. Before that, Marquette had an 8-7 lead on Wisconsin, and that’s just good old fashioned healthy back and forth basketball. But at the 3:47 mark, that’s when Wisconsin kicked off a 10-0 to jump out to a […]
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Name: Indiana University Bloomington Location: Bloomington, Indiana, obviously Founded: 1820 Indiana University, noted theological school: Indiana was founded as the State Seminary and from the days the doors opened through 1885, all of the university presidents were in fact members of the clergy. Of course, they stopped that, making Indiana a school run by quitters. The Indiana-Purdue rivalry sounds […]
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In the preview for Friday night’s 2025 season finale for Marquette men’s soccer, I noted that David Korn’s Golden Eagles had scored just five goals in Big East play this season. That’s the fewest goals they had scored in conference play since 2006 when MU scored just three times while posting an 0-11-0 record. It’s […]
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We saw proof of concept from Cara Consuegra’s team in Game #1 of the 2025-26 season back on Monday morning. The Golden Eagles picked up an 89-57 victory over Winthrop because they put up 1.17 points per possession on the offensive end and held the visiting Eagles to just 0.75 points per possession on the […]
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