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Interesting stuff, Smuggles. Thanks.Marquette has not been ranked higher than 8th since I showed up for freshman orientation. Two wins this week could change that!
Yes, if MU wins both games this week, they are then like inflation ... highest ranking in 40+ years.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
I feel the most incredible thing was 2019 being at #10 for 5 straight weeks. Figure they’d go up or down a spot in that timeframe. Especially during the conference season.
It is impressive. Looking at the stretch, we went 5-1. The 1 loss was a bad home loss to St. John's by 1. That was offset by beating Villanova in the same week. The other 4 wins weren't particularly impressive, all bottom half of the conference teams though some were on the road and by double digits. My guess is we didn't get a lot of help from teams above us losing.
Recall what happened in 2019 after the 2/25/19 #10 ranking ... MU was leading the Big East. They were playing at Nova. They were leading with 5 minutes to go.
Recall what happened in 2019 after the 2/25/19 #10 ranking ... MU was leading the Big East. They were playing at Nova. They were leading with 5 minutes to go. A win would have given them at least a share of the Big East title. They collapsed the rest of the game and lost. Then MU lost the next four remaining conference games. They went 1 and 1 in the BET and lost in the first round of the NCAA.So, after leading at Nova with 5 to go, they lost that game, beginning a 1 and 6 stretch to end the season.But it gets worse!Preseason polls for 2020 had MU as high as #2 the next season. Then the Hausers wrote a letter and transferred.All told, it was one of the great college basketball program collapses of all time. Wojo lucked out as the 2020 season was screwed up with the COVID shutdown, and 2021 was played in front of no fans. Without these "distractions," he might have been shown the door 18 months earlier.
Yeah, but the top-10 ranking had nothing to do with that. The 4 polls prior to that week had Marquette at 10 or 11. We were essentially at the same spot for a month before the bottom fell out.
You're saying we would've fired a coach who had just graduated a two time all American and made the ncaa tournament 3/4 years? He needed to go, in sales terms he was hitting 80% to goal, on most sales floors make that not enough to get fired but you're obviously not performing either and there's a target on your back if you ever have a down month which is exactly what happened when 2021 hit.
There was no BET or NCAA. So the season ended without a real conclusion. I'm assuming it would have been another Wojo debacle to finish that year, too (right before the COVID shutdown, MU looked awful in losing at Depaul badly). But since the season "just stopped," it was easy to rationalize every warning sign away.
Yes, but the #10 ranking on February 25, 2019 signaled how well the Hauser/Howard team was to that point. The epic collapse at Nova, and 1 for 6 run to end the season, after making it to #10 in the nation with a few weeks left in the season, underscores what an utter debacle that was.
Epic collapse at Nova? Marquette's biggest lead was 5 in that game lol. Somebody's needing some clickbate shock lately.
February 27, 2019, at 5:17 left in the second half at Nova, #10 MU was leading 60-55. So they had their largest lead with 5 minutes to go.MU scored just one more point the rest of the way and lost the game 67-61. This was the beginning of the 1 for 6 to finish the season.Explain to me why this was not an epic collapse?
Losing a game that you led by 5 with 5:17 left is not an "epic collapse." Especially on the road at Villanova.