Special NCAA Consideration

[silverback]

Should Marquette beat UNC, we just progress directly to the Final Four, correct?

MU over Kentucky is a given at this point, according to NCAA bylaws, I believe. We should look that up...

[SoCalEagle]

We certainly have had a lot of success against Kentucky over the years.  Sure wouldn't mind playing them again since that means we are one game away from the Final Four. 

[Shanunu]

If we win I fully expect to be playing Ohio State. Don't think Kentucky will beat tOSU.

[Markusquette]

If we win I fully expect to be playing Ohio State. Don't think Kentucky will beat tOSU.

I also anticipate that.  Really getting ahead of ourselves, but stranger things have happened.  Kentucky has a lot of solid guys too.

[willie warrior]

If we win I fully expect to be playing Ohio State. Don't think Kentucky will beat tOSU.

I am definitely looking past UNC for the regional final.

Just kidding!!! Play them one at a time.

[77fan88warrior]

Should Marquette beat UNC, we just progress directly to the Final Four, correct?

MU over Kentucky is a given at this point, according to NCAA bylaws, I believe. We should look that up...

There's no denying the fact or defending what we've seen in the last few games. Just awful, clueless, gutless basketball.

We ARE and will continue to be the worst coached team in the Big East. There are teams with less talent behind us in the standings. But given our players, they would also display higher basketball IQ and more hustle than us.

This is also the worst defensive squad seen at Marquette since at least Mike Deane's last couple of teams — or since Dukiet's era at the very least. The proud, tough defensive identity of Marquette basketball built by O'Neill and Crean has been so totally wiped out by this current rube's "paint touches, free throws, just outscore them" idiocy that I'm left dreaming of the day when this Three Stooges reject from Texas takes his sweet tea and barnyard wisdom on to his next victim.

Get upset and sanctimonious, if you choose. Drink the blue and gold kool-aid and pretend the future is bright. But the Buzz honeymoon is over regardless of how this season progresses. Local media is onto him, and so are fans who've been around long enough to know better. The calls for new leadership will begin now with whispers and build consistently now that Crean's properly developed players are gone.

I'll stay a fan and await the inevitable. There will come a new day of proper, well-developed Marquette recruits from major high schools instead of a mishmash of kids not talented or not bright enough to play at a major program out of high school. There will come a day when the high school players we do get are developed properly and put in a position to succeed. There will come a day when this overdressed Boo Radley with a clipboard leads another program to insignificance.

"See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."