[Cracked Sidewalks] Jacksonville Preview

[brewcity77]

Jacksonville, according to T-Rank, is the worst team on the Marquette schedule, and that's a good thing. We also look back at a time when this game merited national attention and why Marquette's national title bid was unraveled after their first meeting with the Dolphins.

http://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2019/09/jacksonville-preview.html?m=1

[brewcity77]

The karmic replication of Marquette's first game with Jacksonville would be if Marquette came into this game undefeated, ranked in the top 5, and after a victory, Markus Howard declared he was leaving midseason for the G League. Let's hope that doesn't happen.

Afternoon bump.

[Herman Cain]

Jacksonville, according to T-Rank, is the worst team on the Marquette schedule, and that's a good thing. We also look back at a time when this game merited national attention and why Marquette's national title bid was unraveled after their first meeting with the Dolphins.

http://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2019/09/jacksonville-preview.html?m=1

Jacksonville is an interesting college. A large proportion of their enrollment is kids who want to play on a D1 sports team in Florida. 582 kids out of 2900 undergraduates.

[brewcity77]

Game day bump. Marquette looks to get back on track against the Dolphins.

[tower912]

With them dropping football, is this their new Super Bowl?

[war1980rior]

Have a ton of friends who graduated from JU.  Academically, pretty solid, and a beautiful campus right on the St John's River.  They have a couple solid sports programs, baseball in particular is a popular stopping place for good athletes.  Basketball hasn't been the same, but Artis still makes his way around (still lives here, locally).

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

I like this matchup. Jacksonville's best player is their 6'10 center, Dave Bell. Was a high major recruit who played for Ohio State for two seasons (didn't do much). Averaging a double double and over 2 blocks a game. I'd like to see the coaches try to work the ball into our bigs to try and get them some practice working against a decent defensive center.

[BM1090]

I like this matchup. Jacksonville's best player is their 6'10 center, Dave Bell. Was a high major recruit who played for Ohio State for two seasons (didn't do much). Averaging a double double and over 2 blocks a game. I'd like to see the coaches try to work the ball into our bigs to try and get them some practice working against a decent defensive center.

On the other hand, I took MU -19 so maybe MU should just make every shot and pick a different game to experiment.