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Should be a good game, anyone gonna watch? Definitely gonna be watching Jerry Smith cause he went to my HS.

well we all know that Tosa East owns Marquette...why even bother watching?

MU by at least 10. book it, lock and load

can't overlook this aspect of the game.

In HD on ESPN.

SheedsWeed wrote:Should be a good game, anyone gonna watch? Definitely gonna be watching Jerry Smith cause he went to my HS.

You went to east? When did you graduate?

miggs0721 wrote:MU by at least 10. book it, lock and load

They better outscore Louisville by 20 in the next 17 minutes then.

So what's the deal with MU? I'm a UW fan and after that game at the Kohl I started to believe the Marquette hype. But they don't look that great. The BE is the best conference, so you could say competition but they struggle against some of the lower tier teams too.

Mags FTW wrote:So what's the deal with MU? I'm a UW fan and after that game at the Kohl I started to believe the Marquette hype. But they don't look that great. The BE is the best conference, so you could say competition but they struggle against some of the lower tier teams too.

They have two problems that cause them to struggle badly in some games

1. No quality big men Marquette can count on to produce

2. They shoot poorly from outside to often. With the three point shot in college ball being such a short shot, teams gotta make them to win most games when teams are pretty evenly matched talent wise. Marquette is 4-17 from three tonight and they've missed many other open two point jumpers. Can't win games when you can't make open shots.

miggs0721 wrote:MU by at least 10. book it, lock and load

Is it just me or does it seem like every time someone says "book it" in a prediction they turn out to be terribly wrong?

I miss Al Maguire, Rick Majerus, and Nellie too speaking of Milwaukee hoop legends.

I was at work during the game. Every time I checked the score it seemed to get worse and worse.

marquette in my opinion are overrated....I see them getting to the sweet sixteen at best and thats if everything goes right and get lucky with match ups.

Chuck Diesel wrote:Fire Tom Crean?

He's been living off of that Final Four way too long. If I'm correct, they haven't won a tourney game since then.

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He's been living off of that Final Four way too long. If I'm correct, they haven't won a tourney game since then.

you are correct, he does have a couple of NIT wins.

and also as longest wade is a superstar Tom Crean will be coach all he can say is I got that guy.

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He's been living off of that Final Four way too long. If I'm correct, they haven't won a tourney game since then.

What i can't figure out about Crean is how he is so good at recruiting guards/small forwards, but can't rarely ever recruit quality big men.

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What i can't figure out about Crean is how he is so good at recruiting guards/small forwards, but can't rarely ever recruit quality big men.

I've always wondered that too. But honestly, I don't think he's a good coach. In that Final Four game he had 3 future NBAers in Wade, Diener, and Novak and that team got absolutely embarrassed.

Part of Marquette's problem is their lack of non conference road games, their team just isn't as prepared as they should be to travel against stiff competition. I know last night's game was home, but they do genuinely struggle on the road against decent competition, their last victory against Cincinnati doesn't qualify as such. I believe they just scheduled a home & home against Tenn & Pearl for next year, so that should help them in the future.

I will have a good laugh if Crean again loses in the first round of the NCAA's. For the amount he's paid, one would assume that Tom would have had more success than the Final Four year that came 5 years ago. Maybe this is their year, but as of right now I figure that Marquette will wind up somewhere in that 5-8 range and we'll have to see the style they're matched up against.