I'm with you Brew. I think tomorrow is doable.  I also don't care about road games that have already taken place as predictive of future outcomes.  The team is paying better.  The talent is young and getting better.  The seniors hopefully have nestled back into their supporting roles.  IMO this team can get 5 more wins.   No teams besides UConn and St. John's seem insurmountable. 

Quote from: burger on Today at 07:01:20 AMYou have a point.  Take Hank down too....Certainly his head coaching was not stellar.....

Leaving Hank up there does speak to the decades he spent loyal to Marquette....

Crean got lucky on one thing....Wade came to Marquette because no other schools wanted him because of his academic's....(sorry....I am ignoring Southern Illinois)

I guess he didn't have time to get his daughter dressed up in a Marquette cheerleading outfit for the event....

There is so much material....

He had 3 NBA level players on the team and a basketball all time top 20 player and lost by 50....No kidding....Coaching does matter....

Crean is a joke of a coach....And it shows by his career since....

What....He is a fill-in analyst on Peacock????

I don't know, man. I don't think he's a great coach. But he did go to a final four here. And at Indiana I could pretty easily argue that he's been their best coach since Bob Knight. Better than Archie and Woodson for sure. Mike Davis had one miracle run to the title game, which can't be discounted, but Crean significantly outperformed for the rest of their tenures.

He never got it going at Georgia, but nobody ever has besides 2 years of Tubby Smith.

I don't really care if he's up in the rafters. I think it's kind of silly to have him or Hank up there. But he's not a bad basketball coach.

I'm not writing tomorrow off just yet. We played Nova pretty close at home and I think we match up pretty well with them, certainly better than St John's or UConn. In addition, Shaka is 3-0 at the Finn. If we're going to get one of those "we beat WHO?!?" kind of results I think tomorrow is the most likely one.

Quote from: Markusquette on Today at 12:06:08 PMI'd be OK with that assuming they can bring in some skill and experience ahead of him as you said. Clark is what, 7'2"? I don't see it amounting to much but will happily eat crow later on.

Yeah, it could go either way. But he plays 5 MPG when he plays and he typically makes an impact blocking and altering shots. He also had 6 rebounds and and 2 steals against UConn in 13 minutes.

And he clearly doesn't have much of an idea what he's doing out there. Once he actually learns, I could see him being a good center.

Whereas with Hamilton, I just don't see any world he turns into a serviceable player.

Quote from: muwarrior69 on February 07, 2026, 09:14:31 AMAll the events where the winner is determined by a judge or judges is just politics and not sport.

So boxing TKO or KO = sport

Boxing goes the distance = politics?

Quote from: Markusquette on Today at 12:16:01 PMMU will pull the ultimate shocker and win the BE tournament. Ben Gold will come alive, averaging 18 and 10 shooting 43% from deep.

Funny thing though, I'd even pass on all those points and merely accept the kind of defense he put up this weekend.  He looked great!

1-2 at home (W v. DePaul, L to STJ and UConn)

1-3 on the road (losses to Nova and Gtown, then one of X or PC - I think X is more likely).

Quote from: muwarrior69 on Today at 11:06:55 AMUgh! This could be worse than our '63/'64 season.

Forget the 63-64 season, this could be our worst season since 40-41!!!!

AHHHHHH!!!!  BURN DOWN THE FISERV NOW!!!!!!111111oneoneone


On a more fun note, I just realized that if we can get 3 wins yet out of this season, then as a winning percentage it wouldn't have been Dukiet nor O'Neill's worst season!      I think 3 wins is doable.   4 is more of a stretch.

Armani Mighty of Mercer by way of Boston College might be worth a look. 6'10", 240-pound junior who was pretty good on the boards at BC but couldn't do anything else. Two years later, he's filled out and averaging 13.6/10.4 per game while shooting at about 68% from the floor (all at the rim, of course).

Also, the name is great.

MU will pull the ultimate shocker and win the BE tournament. Ben Gold will come alive, averaging 18 and 10 shooting 43% from deep.