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After 27 wins, including a program record 14 in conference, the Marquette Golden Eagles were awarded a No. 3 seed in the West region of the 2012 NCAA Tournament. It is the Golden Eagles highest seeding since 2003, when junior guard Dwyane Wade and coach Tom Crean led third-seeded Marquette to a Final Four berth […]

Last Four In USF Ole Miss Drexel Seton Hall   Last Five Considered NC State Marshall Iona Miami Cal   No. 1 seeds (in order) Kentucky Syracuse North Carolina Missouri   No. 2 seeds (in order) Kansas*  Michigan State* (if MSU beats Ohio State, it moves ahead of Kansas and possibly Missouri) Duke Ohio State […]

March 10 Bracket

Big East: 9

Big 12: 6

Big 10: 6

ACC: 5

SEC: 5

Mountain West: 4

Atlantic 10: 3

West Coast: 3

Missouri Valley: 2

Colonial: 2

Conference USA: 2

Last Four In

USF

Ole Miss

NC State

Drexel

First Four Out

Cal

Miami

Seton Hall

Iona

Next Four Out

Marshall

Oregon

Oral Roberts

Washington

Published by: Michael LoCicero (@michaellocicero) and Michael Wottreng (@MWottreng)

Marquette had never been better than a five-seed at the Big East Championship. It had never boasted the Big East Player of the Year. It never had two players named first team all-conference since the program entered conference play in the 1989-1990 season. But this season Marquette had it all. It was the consensus No. […]

Q: Any real positives that come out of tonight’s game or was tonight one of those games you’ve got to get rid of right away? Jae Crowder: We got a chance to build on it going into the tournament. Look at the mistakes we made and try to learn from it, so it’s a lot […]

Turnovers and offensive rebounds were the difference in No. 9 Marquette’s 84-71 loss to Louisville in the quarterfinals of the Big East Championship tournament on Thursday night. Marquette (25-7) turned the ball over 26 times and allowed the Cardinals (24-9) to grab 26 offensive rebounds in the loss. Both numbers were a season high in […]