[Cracked Sidewalks] Marquette shoots for second win over a No. 1 team

[CrackedSidewalks]

Marquette shoots for second win over a No. 1 team

Marquette will try for a win over a No. 1 ranked team for the only time besides Dwyane Wade's win over Kentucky.

Kenpom gives Marquette a 14% chance of the upset in the toughest game of the year - at Villanova. Based on Value Add, Nova's offense beats out Creighton for best in the conference, and their defense beats out Xavier for best. Marquette still ranks ahead of Seton Hall despite the heartbreaking loss there.

Rnk	Team	Off	Def	Value Add
2	Villanova	37.3	-11.06	48.54
12	Butler	32.82	-9.36	43.07
18	Xavier	30.7	-9.99	40.69
25	Creighton	34.41	-4.41	39.43
36	Marquette	29.19	-5.37	35.01
52	Seton Hall	24.5	-7.56	32.66
68	Georgetown	26.43	-3.13	31.04
74	Providence	21.52	-8.35	29.98
108	St. John's	22.75	-2.65	26.06
198	DePaul	19.69	1.03	20.72

Nova has three of the top six players in the conference, while Marquette is very balanced, with five players in the top 500, however noone in the top 200 or top 15 in the Big East.

Season Rank	Player	Team	Value
1	Josh Hart^ 3	Villanova	16.11
11	JP Macura^ 55	Xavier	11.21
34	Jalen Brunson^ 1	Villanova	9.96
64	Shamorie Ponds^ 2	St. John's	9.1
68	Khyri Thomas^ 2	Creighton	8.95
76	Mikal Bridges^ 25	Villanova	8.74
77	Rodney Pryor^ 23	Georgetown	8.72
83	Justin Patton^ 23	Creighton	8.58
84	Andrew Chrabascz^ 45	Butler	8.56
88	Edmond Sumner^ 4	Xavier	8.51
92	Trevon Bluiett^ 5	Xavier	8.48
134	Khadeen Carrington^ 0	Seton Hall	7.51
149	LJ Peak^ 0	Georgetown	7.39
165	Emmitt Holt^ 15	Providence	7.22
166	Tyler Lewis^ 1	Butler	7.18
202	Maurice Watson^ 10	Creighton	6.78
210	Jalen Lindsey^ 21	Providence	6.67
223	Luke Fischer^ 40	Marquette	6.59
232	Angel Delgado^ 31	Seton Hall	6.53
239	Kris Jenkins^ 2	Villanova	6.45
256	Rodney Bullock^ 5	Providence	6.31
278	Tyler Wideman^ 4	Butler	6.2
281	Kelan Martin^ 30	Butler	6.17
295	JaJuan Johnson^ 23	Marquette	6.06
373	Desi Rodriguez^ 20	Seton Hall	5.44
384	Sam Hauser^ 10	Marquette	5.32
403	Kamar Baldwin^ 3	Butler	5.24
406	Avery Woodson^ 0	Butler	5.22
422	Jessie Govan^ 15	Georgetown	5.12
428	Markus Howard^ 0	Marquette	5.1
431	Tre'Darius McCallum^ 10	DePaul	5.09
441	Marcus Foster^ 0	Creighton	5.05
490	Haanif Cheatham^ 25	Marquette	4.79
492	RaShid Gaston^ 35	Xavier	4.77

Source: Marquette shoots for second win over a No. 1 team

[keefe]

Too bad D Wade isn't on the roster to lead us to victory.

Fact is, we are getting our asses handed to us. Frankly, this sh1t is getting old

[fjm]

Fact is, we are getting our asses handed to us. Frankly, this sh1t is getting old

You're probably not wrong, and there is nothing wrong with being realistic. But luckily for you there are many other channels on a TV for you to watch.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Too bad D Wade isn't on the roster to lead us to victory.

Fact is, we are getting our asses handed to us. Frankly, this sh1t is getting old

Getting old? Wojo is 0-1 against #1 teams. Buzz was 0-2. Al was 0-2. In fact only your favorite, Tom Crean managed a win against a #1. He was 1-1.

We get that you are disappointed in Wojo. But expecting him to bet a #1 team on the road seems a little unreasonable.

[auburnmarquette]

Agreed- this was the most impossible game on the schedule from day 1 - and having Howard top 20 again is certainly nice. For me Seton Hall and Pitt hurt, because if we held onto either of them we'd be in the tournament as of today.

This was a nothing to lose game.

[muhoops1]

Too bad D Wade isn't on the roster to lead us to victory.

Fact is, we are getting our asses handed to us. Frankly, this sh1t is getting old

Thank you.  Although most will just regurgitate the fact that Nova is #1

[mu_hilltopper]

I'd be shocked if anyone in the MU universe thought this game was anything but an L before the season started.  So that's not where the angst comes from.

It's not that we lost to the #1 team .. it's how non-competitive we were, how non-competitive we'll likely be against Butler, X, Creighton, and the top half of the BE -- for a 4th year in a row.

"There's always next year" is getting old.