Duke lost again

[Galway Eagle]

Marquette is no longer an urban blue collar school, and the basketball program now reflects that.

Was it ever? Maybe if you're referring to the basketball team but I'd be very interested to know what % of this board's population grew up in a city vs suburb vs rural and I'd wager quite a bit you'd see that the majority weren't from urban areas when they attended MU.

[Billy Hoyle]

Was it ever? Maybe if you're referring to the basketball team but I'd be very interested to know what % of this board's population grew up in a city vs suburb vs rural and I'd wager quite a bit you'd see that the majority weren't from urban areas when they attended MU.

Agree. My dad was a doctor, I grew up in a rural small town but in a very nice lake house, and when I got to MU I had classmates driving vehicles my dad hoped to buy some day. Also I knew more private school kids than public school kids (which I was), especially catholic schools. The most popular question at MU was “what Chicago suburb are you from?” Just because MU is in a gritty neighborhood doesn’t make the university “blue collar.”

[Galway Eagle]

Agree. My dad was a doctor, I grew up in a rural small town but in a very nice lake house, and when I got to MU I had classmates driving vehicles my dad hoped to buy some day. Also I knew more private school kids than public school kids (which I was), especially catholic schools. The most popular question at MU was “what Chicago suburb are you from?” Just because MU is in a gritty neighborhood doesn’t make the university “blue collar.”

I knew 4 kids from Milwaukee  proper, 2 from Chicago proper, 1 from Minneapolis proper (and he's easily the farthest from blue collar). That's spread across people from classes of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. It's never been an urban

[vogue65]

You win, I quite.

[Jables1604]

When Duke loses. We all win.

[Billy Hoyle]

I knew 4 kids from Milwaukee  proper, 2 from Chicago proper, 1 from Minneapolis proper (and he's easily the farthest from blue collar). That's spread across people from classes of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. It's never been an urban

All the Milwaukee kids I knew at MU were grads of MUHS, Pius IX, St. Thomas More, and DSHA. Then there were all of the Loyola Academy kids from Chicago, Creighton Prep and many of the St. Louis catholic schools. Most of the non-private school kids were from Waukesha or Tosa high school.

[Knight Commission]

Nice to see Duke lose