Who are Marquette's Rivals?

[#UnleashSean]

I gave Wisconsin 40 points and Villanova 25 points.

Everything else was ancient or minimal and included Notre Dame, Providence, West Virginia (love ya Huggie), DePaul (think of them the way Wisconsin thinks of us), Louisville, Kentucky (dates to Al and DWade) and Dayton for a point (we hated them way back when...)

Villanova has been a big game for us and we've had some incredible moments against them. Yeah, they're not Notre Dame and Louisville in hatred, but we have not played those guys in years.

I think you and I might have been the only two too realistically put in Nova. This unfortunately goes to show, after the old Big east rupture Marquette really only has a single rival they consistently play.

[Viper]

Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin and...Wisconsin
-Better Dead, Than RED

[CTWarrior]

Wisconsin - 20
DePaul - 10
Butler - 10
Xavier - 10
Notre Dame - 10
Louisville - 10
Cincinnati - 10
Villanova - 10
Seton Hall - 10
UConn - 10

I don't live in Wisconsin, but I recognize they are our top rival these days.  I really miss Louisville, Cincy and ND.  I think if DePaul ever turns it around they will quickly become our biggest rival, in conference, anyway.

[mu_hilltopper]

I ranked the teams based on how insufferable their fan base is. 

[Galway Eagle]

I gave Wisconsin 40 points and Villanova 25 points.

Everything else was ancient or minimal and included Notre Dame, Providence, West Virginia (love ya Huggie), DePaul (think of them the way Wisconsin thinks of us), Louisville, Kentucky (dates to Al and DWade) and Dayton for a point (we hated them way back when...)

Villanova has been a big game for us and we've had some incredible moments against them. Yeah, they're not Notre Dame and Louisville in hatred, but we have not played those guys in years.

We're playing Notre Dame next year.

We last played Louisville in the 2018-19 season. Not like it was that long ago.

[The Sultan]

I ranked the teams based on how insufferable their fan base is.

So we're like our own rivals then???

[mu_hilltopper]

So we're like our own rivals then???

We're sufferable, or Scoop wouldn't have lasted 15 years!

[GooooMarquette]

I ranked the teams based on how insufferable their fan base is.

They don't allow enough votes to do that for ND or Wisconsin

[JakeBarnes]

I ranked the teams based on how insufferable their fan base is.

100 on ND, eh?

[ZiggysFryBoy]

We're sufferable, or Scoop wouldn't have lasted 15 years!

Scoop is in drivers ed?  F me.

[Spotcheck Billy]

I think you and I might have been the only two too realistically put in Nova. This unfortunately goes to show, after the old Big east rupture Marquette really only has a single rival they consistently play.

I hung 25 on Nova too

[StillAWarrior]

As someone who suffered through the early MCC days, I'm just glad that nobody is voting for Evansville.

[Uncle Rico]

As someone who suffered through the early MCC days, I'm just glad that nobody is voting for Evansville.

That league and those teams.  Grrrrr

[Norm]

I'd say our only true rivalry is Wisconsin. For a rivalry to take place, both sides need to consider it one. UW fans love to beat MU and vice versa. I'm not sure any other fan base in the Big East considers Marquette to be a rival.

We did have one with Cincinnati and Louisville in CUSA, but those days are long gone.

As for Notre Dame, they long ago stopped considering Marquette to be a rival. Since the 70's the series was pretty one-sided in ND's favor. I went to a game there in 1988 and there hundreds of tickets lying on the ground outside the Joyce Center for people to claim and the place was half empty on a Saturday afternoon.

[Galway Eagle]

I'd say our only true rivalry is Wisconsin. For a rivalry to take place, both sides need to consider it one. UW fans love to beat MU and vice versa. I'm not sure any other fan base in the Big East considers Marquette to be a rival.

We did have one with Cincinnati and Louisville in CUSA, but those days are long gone.

As for Notre Dame, they long ago stopped considering Marquette to be a rival. Since the 70's the series was pretty one-sided in ND's favor. I went to a game there in 1988 and there hundreds of tickets lying on the ground outside the Joyce Center for people to claim and the place was half empty on a Saturday afternoon.

That was probably true in 1988 but since then we had two solid renaissances of basketball I've been to two MU games there and there wasn't an empty seat in the place

[MUBurrow]

I went:

Wisconsin - 60
DePaul - 20
Notre Dame - 10
Xavier - 5
Milwaukee - 5

The Xavier and UWM points are mostly because I think those have the most likelihood to evolving into more of a rivalry.

[Scoop Snoop]

We're sufferable, or Scoop wouldn't have lasted 15 years!

I think Wojo and Scholl differed with you in their presser following the Hausers departure when they were obviously pissed about  criticism. Pretty sure Scoop was the "noise" they kept referring to repeatedly while trying to sell whoever would listen to them that all was just fine with the program. Imagine anyone calling us noise. The nerve! Insufferable is a classier description than "noise".

[fjm]

60 Wisconsin
40 seton hall cause I fn hate their fans.

[wadesworld]

60 Wisconsin
40 seton hall cause I fn hate their fans.

Pretty much this.  Although I'd probably go 30 SHU, 5 Butler, 5 Creighton for the same reasons as SHU.

[mu_hilltopper]

I think Wojo and Scholl differed with you in their presser following the Hausers departure when they were obviously pissed about  criticism. Pretty sure Scoop was the "noise" they kept referring to repeatedly while trying to sell whoever would listen to them that all was just fine with the program. Imagine anyone calling us noise. The nerve! Insufferable is a classier description than "noise".

So you're saying if it weren't for MUScoop, Wojo would still be the coach!

Blessed be the fruit.

[CountryRoads]

60 Wisconsin
40 seton hall cause I fn hate their fans.

I would agree with this as it currently stands. Wisconsin will always be a natural rival for us, but it's pretty tame and friendly relative to other rivalries. Many fans are indifferent about UW/MU or even like the other school when they aren't playing each other. We also don't really cross paths in recruiting all that much either.

Seton Hall is another temporary good conference rival (like Pitt, Louisville, etc). Run this poll again in 10 years and they likely won't be on here. I've spent a lot of time the last few years in NYC and always try and catch the MU games. When they play Seton Hall, their fans are the most obnoxious and malevolent of them all. I still really wish Markus would have made that shot at the buzzer in the BET against them a few years back. My calendar is circled for that one next Saturday. We've lost about 5 in a row and it's time that changes.

A lot of people say Notre Dame, but I think that one is just before my time. That game never even did anything for me when we were in the "old" Big East. Aside from the fact it was a high major conference opponent obviously.

[Galway Eagle]

I would agree with this as it currently stands. Wisconsin will always be a natural rival for us, but it's pretty tame and friendly relative to other rivalries. Many fans are indifferent about UW/MU or even like the other school when they aren't playing each other. We also don't really cross paths in recruiting all that much either.

Seton Hall is another temporary good conference rival (like Pitt, Louisville, etc). Run this poll again in 10 years and they likely won't be on here. I've spent a lot of time the last few years in NYC and always try and catch the MU games. When they play Seton Hall, their fans are the most obnoxious and malevolent of them all. I still really wish Markus would have made that shot at the buzzer in the BET against them a few years back. My calendar is circled for that one next Saturday. We've lost about 5 in a row and it's time that changes.

A lot of people say Notre Dame, but I think that one is just before my time. That game never even did anything for me when we were in the "old" Big East. Aside from the fact it was a high major conference opponent obviously.

I feel like a lot of ND people had MU as a backup school and a lot of MU kids had applied to ND (some accepted & some rejected), add that to the general entitlement of their fan base that they are expected to win, the fact that their the only Catholic school since Georgetown in the 80s that has a massive non affiliated fanbase, and that they're generally snobby people then it becomes a pretty big rivalry. Then add how many times we've played them which (in 2013) was only behind WI as the most played series. Then there's the similar colors which just bugs me. 

[Its DJOver]

It'd be hard for me not to include WVU at least in some capacity. Huggy's still there and they always had the worst fans IMO, probably down to the fact that the only Beast tourney I've  been to was the year Jay won POTY, and WVU fans wouldn't shut up about it.

[MU82]

I feel like a lot of ND people had MU as a backup school

I had ND as a backup school. Eff ND.

Can't wait till we beat 'em next season, and beat 'em again the following year. And then hopefully Brey or whoever is in charge then won't be too wussy to keep the series going.

[Scoop Snoop]

So you're saying if it weren't for MUScoop, Wojo would still be the coach!

Blessed be the fruit.

This should have been in teal, right? Not saying that at all. Simply a case of Wojo and Scholl trying to shift the blame for the fiasco (not that the blame was Scholl's at all to begin with) from Wojo being exposed for what he was and wallpapering over the cracks in the foundation. Scoop was their punching bag.