Marquette to Play Seattle Next Season

[TallTitan34]

I don't know if anyone noticed this but it looks like Marquette will be hosting Seattle next season at the Bradley Center.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_bkc_seattles_new_game.html

Also I added it to the wiki if anyone forgets:
http://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/men_s_basketball/2009

[mu_hilltopper]

Sweet.  I am so renewing my 2010 season tickets to see this newly-promoted-to-D1 team.

[romey]

They lost their Sonics to Oklahoma, so this is the best they have!

[Marquette84]

Sweet.  I am so renewing my 2010 season tickets to see this newly-promoted-to-D1 team.

If it helps, think of it this way:  you are renewing your season tickets to see a former NCAA D-1 runner up (lost to Kentucky in 1958) and the alma mater of former NBA great Elgin Baylor.

[Chili]

At least it is another Jesuit school.

[77ncaachamps]

Yes, and it's good to see more Jesuit schools involved in D-I athletics. It only helps to increase the exposure of that school and Jesuit schools in general.

I hope they get to join the WCC. If they do, they'd need to rename it the Jesuit West Conference: Gonzaga, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Loyola-Marymount, and Seattle.

This just gets me back to thinking of a national Jesuit tournament: Marquette, Georgetown, Boston College, Gonzaga, Xavier, St. Joseph's, St. Louis, Santa Clara, the Loyolas, ...the list can go on.

[Kramerica]

I'm pretty sure that San Diego is a Jesuit school as well. 

[bma725]

This just gets me back to thinking of a national Jesuit tournament: Marquette, Georgetown, Boston College, Gonzaga, Xavier, St. Joseph's, St. Louis, Santa Clara, the Loyolas, ...the list can go on.

Unforunately, it couldn't be done with all those teams due to NCAA requirements.  The NCAA does not allow teams from the same conference cannot play in the same pre-season tournament.  So you would have to rotate schools frequently.

[bma725]

I'm pretty sure that San Diego is a Jesuit school as well. 

San Diego is Catholic but not Jesuit.

[TallTitan34]

This just gets me back to thinking of a national Jesuit tournament: Marquette, Georgetown, Boston College, Gonzaga, Xavier, St. Joseph's, St. Louis, Santa Clara, the Loyolas, ...the list can go on.

I'm sure you've all seen 1952 National Catholic Invitation Tournament Champions banner at the Bradley Center.  Does anyone know how that tournament worked?  It was listed on the Post-Season banner so was it just a tournament for Catholic schools not in the NCAA?

[Mufflers]

What if MU hosted a Jesuit tournament every year (or MU and Georgetown rotated in hosting a Jesuit tournament)?

Boston College (ACC)
Creighton (MVC)
Gonzaga (WCC)
St. Joes/SLU/Xavier (A-10)
Marquette/Georgetown (Big East)
Holy Cross (?)
Loyola Chicago (Horizon)
Rotating filler school based on preseason projections

It could be good for Jesuit school awareness and it might increase tourism in Milwaukee.

[PJDunn]

They lost their Sonics to Oklahoma, so this is the best they have!

Any D1 program is better than the NBA.  The real question is how long it takes Seattle U to eclipse Lorenzo Romar's soap opera at the UW. 

[OneMadWarrior]

Why would Loyola Chicago get first dibs there over schools like Fordham (who is in the A-10 as well incidentally)
You have the Major Jesuit Colleges (In Regard to basketball)
Major (Rotating Hosts)
Georgetown (BEast)
Boston College (ACC)
Marquette (BEast)
Mid-Major
Creighton(Valley)
St. Louis(A-10)
Fordham(A-10)
Xavier(A-10)
St. Joseph's(A-10)
Gonzaga(WCC)
Santa Clara(WCC)
San Francisco(WCC)
Loyola Marymount(WCC)

Then you have the lower member rotate in at least that is how I woudl do it

[reinko]

Here is a list of all 28 Jesuit schools in the country.  You could throw Fairfield in there for good measure, I think they play in the Patriot League.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Jesuit_Colleges_and_Universities