We Were In The Last 6 In

[MuMark]

The SC seemed to decide that if we have to take 11 Big East teams we are going to make some of them play each other early just in case.

I think they wanted to take any chance(as remote as it was) for 11 BE teams to make the sweet 16 out of the equation.

Time to play the games and see what happens.

[El Duderino]

I am happy we are not an 8 or 9 and am in no way offended some "lesser" teams have the seed.  Especially in this soft field, avoiding 1's & 2's are a pleasure.  We can play against X and we have beat 'Cuse -- that's hope!

No kidding

It's baffling to me why some here are all pissed off by Marquette's 11 seed compared to say Michigan who got an 8 seed. Well, i sure wouldn't trade draws with Michigan.

Michigan has to first beat Tennessee who arguably would be as tough or close to as tough to beat as Xavier and then if Michigan can beat Tennessee, they are staring at a 2nd round matchup with Duke.

So for a few examples of a potential a path to the Sweet 16, would people rather likely have?

MU-- Xavier/Syracuse

Michigan-- Tennessee/Duke

Villanova-- George Mason/OSU

I'd gladly take our path even though Michigan and Nova were given higher seeds. So even though we easily could end up losing either of those two games, i'd like to thank the selection committee for the draw given to Marquette. Now it's just up to the players and coaches to try and make something of this draw.

[TJ]

Memphis, Richmond and Utah State were automatic qualifiers.  The last 4 in were the two play-in games.  One in the 12 seed and one in the 11.  I believe we were the top 11 seed, thus were the 7th lowest at large.

Seems that way, but they can also change seed by a few spots if the want for matchup purposes.  I tend to think that they moved us down a level to put us against SU because they wanted to ensure there wouldn't be 11 BE teams in the Sweet 16.

There's no way to really know which teams were last in before the play-in game teams.