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  1. great stuff, MU88! Add in a 4th place finish in the Big East in MU's inaugural season and it proves that the heritage only gets richer. We'll have to add some of this to the data capsule on the blog in time for next season :-) http://marquettebasketball.blogspot.com
  2. thought you guys would enjoy this....apologies if it was posted earlier, but I didn't notice it Uncertain Times for Prie Free Agent http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8209861/
  3. Actually, Marquette sits on Tory Hill. The topography is modest by any measure, but the heritage of the nickname is appealing to plenty alums. http://marquettebasketball.blogspot.com
  4. Indeed, a terrific win for the Billikens. Frankly, its even sweeter that you clobbered Memphis, ending their tourney hopes for the time being. I guess SLU can do the same on Saturday with MU. Its a big spot for Marquette - - at 19-9, MU is fighting to get back on the bubble, and with two good wins in the last week they are just about there. SLU has a chance to play spoiler again. Should be a good game (btw, it'll be senior day for MU too). Marquette Basketball Blog http://marquettebasketball.blogspot.com
  5. MU has little margin for error. To date, Crean's guys have avoided the 'bad loss' which works in their favor. MU has two road games this week (TCU and ECU) -- lose on of those and they have to win out the season, IMHO. Not sure they can do that, but the Warriors do close with 4 of their last 5 at home this season. http://marquettebasketball.blogspot.com
  6. at least that didn't matter....MU escapes on the road. Good luck the rest of the way, sans the return game in the Bradley Center.
  7. Yes, but the Wade era counts. I'm amazed that folks discount those games - - should we discount the Hughes stint for SLU (though not as successful, he won games for the Bills)? BTW, even without Wade, MU secured a regular season conference title, a conference tourney title (as did SLU), NIT final four, and a Sweet 16 appearance during this same time period. SLU only has one of those four successes during this time.
  8. "we're no longer equals" Equals? Its worth noting that MU has as many NCAA bids in the last eleven seasons as SLU has in the history of its program. We don't need to go into Final Fours, national titles, sweet 16 appearances, conference titles and top 20 all time in program victories. That said, SLU is on the way up -- with a bang. Soderberg is a good coach, and the university is helping him out immensely with a new league & what stands to be the best on-campus facility in the A-10 (if not beyond). The recuits will follow -- Lisch is a great 'get'. Should be a fun ride for the Bills, good luck.
  9. goodness, plenty of venom here. The vast majority of MU fans are hoping things work out for SLU during this shuffle & surely it will with a fine coach, adminstration and new facility. I think exactly one MU fan brought up the travel partner point you elude to in your post - - hardly representative of the masses. Good luck
  10. Fair enough on MU, we'll all see what happens (BTW, 6 NCAA tourney bids in the last decade, including a Sweet 16 and a Final Four, is more than respectable). Regardelss, you are applying quite a discount to the Big East considering two recent NCAA champs have emerged from the league (Cuse and UConn), not to mention the addition of Cincy (perennial top 20) and Ville (likely to be there). Throw in Nova, MU and the rest - - top three league every year hands down.
  11. good call, my bad. I still have my head wrapped around college football, not hoops. That'll change quickly
  12. The Big East very well could be the top hoops conference; if not the top, no worse than #3 in any season. The newly configured conference sent two to the Final Four last year & has two national champs in the last decade. The league will begin play with four to five elite programs (based on records in the last few years, tourney success, coaching stability and facilities) - - UConn, 'Cuse, Cincy, Louisville and Marquette. By comparison, the Big 10 has IU, Wisco, MSU & perhaps Illinois. Pac10 has Arizona, UCLA, & Stanford(?). SEC has Kentucky and Florida. Figuring UNC's turnaround is a given, the ACC would have Duke, UNC, Wake Forest, Md and ???. Big12 - - KU, Texas, & Mi$$ery (if Quin can stay outta jail). The new Big East looks better and better. Back to the Big east - - - sure there's question about maintaining programs at an elite level (MU, for instance - and by the same token, Ville is on this list only because of Pitino's rep right now), but at any given time the conference should have at least four teams ranked. Factor in good, young coaches at youthful programs like Seton Hall, PC, Villanova & perhaps SJU and G'Town - - quite a league. And there are no Houstons or USMs in the mix (much less Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Virginia Tech, ). SLU and Charlotte into the A-10 rachets that league up as well - - those universities plus Dayton, X, a well-coached squad at URI and perhaps UMAss. A good league.
  13. Stability could be a factor but realize that these 16 schools all will sign a five year contract buffered by a $5M out clause going forward. $5M will buy some degree of stability. The future of the BCS will have much to do with the survival of the Big East (if the BCS is expanded/adjusted, the league should survive as is). But even if this is a limited engagement it will do wonders for the MU program. Regardless, I do believe that within a decade we'll see MU, SLU, DPU and the non-football unis of the Big East join a large hoops-driven league. Good luck to you guys in the reconfigured and very competitive A-10.
  14. yeah, i did read it right. I'm not sure about the Big10 moving a hoops game, still researching that. Nevertheless, moving a Big 10 football game was pretty shocking at the time - - especially when it was OSU slated to come to Evanston. That game would have sold out in either location (albeit with more seats in Cleveland).
  15. In 1991, Northwestern moved a home football game against Ohio State University to Cleveland's Municpal Stadium. This was a very unpopular decision by then AD Bruce Corrie (at NW). OSU won the game 34-3.
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