Hell of a regular season

[jesmu84]

Great season all around.

All-american candidate, BEast POY candidate and NPOY candidate. Multiple BEast all-conference candidates. BEast freshman of the year candidate. BEast and national COY candidate.

Best finish in conference in YEARS. Best record in years.

#10 ranking during the season

Big-time up trend to our program. Love the coach and players. Recruiting looks top notch. Bringing back nearly every significant player plus redshirts.

[The Sultan]

Great season all around.

All-american candidate, BEast POY candidate and NPOY candidate. Multiple BEast all-conference candidates. BEast freshman of the year candidate. BEast and national COY candidate.

Best finish in conference in YEARS. Best record in years.

#10 ranking during the season

Big-time up trend to our program. Love the coach and players. Recruiting looks top notch. Bringing back nearly every significant player plus redshirts.

Amen. Finally some proper context.

[goldeneagle91114]

Great season all around.

All-american candidate, BEast POY candidate and NPOY candidate. Multiple BEast all-conference candidates. BEast freshman of the year candidate. BEast and national COY candidate.

Best finish in conference in YEARS. Best record in years.

#10 ranking during the season

Big-time up trend to our program. Love the coach and players. Recruiting looks top notch. Bringing back nearly every significant player plus redshirts.

This post is 2 weeks too late. There is not a single player on this team that's going to win an award after this collapse.

[Bad_Reporter]

Great job finishing #2 in the conference this year though. 

There maybe zero teams ranked in the top 25 this year from the big east.

Maybe we can hang up a #10 ranking like VCU does?

[Shooter McGavin]

Great season all around.

All-american candidate, BEast POY candidate and NPOY candidate. Multiple BEast all-conference candidates. BEast freshman of the year candidate. BEast and national COY candidate.

Best finish in conference in YEARS. Best record in years.

#10 ranking during the season

Big-time up trend to our program. Love the coach and players. Recruiting looks top notch. Bringing back nearly every significant player plus redshirts.

100% agree. 

[GooooMarquette]

Didn't end up the way we wanted, but the overall trend is still moving in an upward direction.

[CTWarrior]

100% agree.

In a normal year finishing second in the Big East is a great accomplishment.  But when you considered this was a down year in the Big East and only SJU and us are in peak mode and all the other squads are in the building phase, not so great.  And while McEwen will hopefully be the ball handler we are missing, the league will be a lot better next year. 

[BM1090]

In a normal year finishing second in the Big East is a great accomplishment.  But when you considered this was a down year in the Big East and only SJU and us are in peak mode and all the other squads are in the building phase, not so great.  And while McEwen will hopefully be the ball handler we are missing, the league will be a lot better next year.

Dont understand this context. Sure it wasnt a "normal" year but why does that only excuse everyone else's performance and diminish ours

[goldeneagle91114]

Dont understand this context. Sure it wasnt a "normal" year but why does that only excuse everyone else's performance and diminish ours

Because WE'RE the team with upperclassman. WE'VE been in rebuilding mode the last 4 years. WE  No longer get to use excuses. Everyone other team, sans STJ, does.

[Hards Alumni]

Great season all around.

All-american candidate, BEast POY candidate and NPOY candidate. Multiple BEast all-conference candidates. BEast freshman of the year candidate. BEast and national COY candidate.

Best finish in conference in YEARS. Best record in years.

#10 ranking during the season

Big-time up trend to our program. Love the coach and players. Recruiting looks top notch. Bringing back nearly every significant player plus redshirts.

Hey, someone tell this guy.

[CTWarrior]

Because WE'RE the team with upperclassman. WE'VE been in rebuilding mode the last 4 years. WE  No longer get to use excuses. Everyone other team, sans STJ, does.

Yup, that's pretty much what I meant.

[Goose]

Everyone has different definition of great season. I am happy to say that mine is vastly different than jesmu.

[CountryRoads]

Backing our way into the NCAA is better than making a late surge for an NIT birth. It was a good (not great) season, but I'm pretty pissed at how the regular season ended. I was starting to drink a lot of the kool-aid. Oh well. Still in the tournament and will have a good chance to win the first game.

[BM1090]

Because WE'RE the team with upperclassman. WE'VE been in rebuilding mode the last 4 years. WE  No longer get to use excuses. Everyone other team, sans STJ, does.

We start 0 seniors.

IMo, this was a good season. Not great. Years like this should be our average season now that Wojo has all his guys.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

We start 0 seniors.

Let's not start this narrative.  We have plenty of experience. 

[GrimmReaper33]

Taking 2nd in the Big East is nothing to brag about this year, if we're being honest.  Especially when, IMO, we probably have the best roster in the league from a collective talent/experience standpoint.  Not too mention the fact that all we needed to do was win 1 out of the last 4 to get a share of the conference title.

Not sure what being ranked in the top 10 at one point in the middle of the season has to do with anything?  Who gives a crap.  It wouldn't matter even if they got to number 1 if you're not going to hang any banners or win any hardware.

The fact that they're playing their worst at the end of the season is a huge concern.  However, let's see how the postseason plays out.  They would not be the first team in college basketball history to go on a run in the tourney after limping to the finish in the regular season.  If they fail to right the ship and don't win at all in the postseason, it will be a disappointing year in my eyes.

[willie warrior]

No, not "hell of a regular season" but "regular season of hell"

[Lennys Tap]

Great season all around.

All-american candidate, BEast POY candidate and NPOY candidate. Multiple BEast all-conference candidates. BEast freshman of the year candidate. BEast and national COY candidate.

Best finish in conference in YEARS. Best record in years.

#10 ranking during the season

Big-time up trend to our program. Love the coach and players. Recruiting looks top notch. Bringing back nearly every significant player plus redshirts.

Don't forget the best Marquette team (by a lot) to close out the regular season with 4 consecutive losses. Of course there aren't many who have accomplished that, but still...were #1 among them! Hooray!

[BM1090]

Let's not start this narrative.  We have plenty of experience.

Sure. That's true. So is what I said. None of our best 7 players are seniors. Is that true for other teams in the league?

[RushmoreAcademy]

Seasons are defined by NCAA success. You come in as a 2 and lose to a 15 and you're season looks like a failure. The narrative is yet to be told.
Worst part of the loses is that a lower seed is going to make winning tougher in the games that people will remember most.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Sure. That's true. So is what I said. None of our best 7 players are seniors. Is that true for other teams in the league?

None of our players have grey hair either. It's about as relevant.  Btw 2 of our best seven have player college b-ball as long as a 'senior'. Plus joe c plays.

[Galway Eagle]

Just realised I was right on my prediction in my signature I've had for months now. That sucks to be right about

[CTWarrior]

Sure. That's true. So is what I said. None of our best 7 players are seniors. Is that true for other teams in the league?

I tend to think the younger you are, the more you are likely to improve.  I've got nothing to back that up but intuition, but that's what I think.  We should be better next year if everyone comes back.  But I think more than a few of the other teams will improve more than we will, that's all.

[RJax55]

Coaches picked MU second in the pre-season, so the team meet expectations in that sense. But, let's not kid ourselves, this isnt a program swimming in conference titles. To piss one away is very disappointing.

[4everwarriors]

Everyone has different definition of great season. I am happy to say that mine is vastly different than jesmu.

Write on. If ya strive for nothin', yur gonna get it every tyme, hey?