What Are Your Marquette Favorites

[tower912]

Least favorite play:  Joey Hauser throwing his hands in the air when he didn't get a pass.  Davante Gardner doing the same.
Least favorite game:  MU v WMU in the NIT.
Game attended:  Anything under Dukiet.  Fearing Fordham and Iona.
Least favorite season:  1987-88
Least favorite player:  Scott Merritt.  Not a fair or rational choice.  Something about him made me nuts.   Sorry, Scott.
Least favorite coach:  Dukiet.
Least favorite team:  1987-88

[Galway Eagle]

Least favorite play:  Bucks throwing the game away against Louisville
Least favorite game:  MU vs Syracuse E8
Game attended:  MU vs Ohio St 2013

Least favorite season:  2013-14 (everyone thinking this was the year! And crap ourselves)

Least favorite player:  Jamil Wilson (TBT not included) never played to his potential. Could have been the next "great" in a line stretching from Wade, Diener, Novak, 3 Amigos, Zar, DJO, Crowder, Vander and instead he plays passively and weak.

Least favorite coach:  Buzz (for the way he left)

Least favorite team:  2020-21, I thought we'd have another Ellanson type year or Rowsey senior year but man was i wrong

I'd like to change my least favorite game to Billy's answer, I'd blocked that one out. Damn washington

[JakeBarnes]

Least favorite play: Brook Lopez over Burke in 2008. Never felt worse at a MU fan.
Least favorite game: NCAA tourney meltdown against Washington in 2010 tourney.
Least favorite game attended: MU at Wisconsin, 2001.
Least favorite season: 2004-05 after Travis went down
Least favorite player: not going to call out college kids
Least favorite coach: Buzz
Least favorite team: 2011-12
Least favorite jersey: 16-17 through 19-20 (especially the whites and greys)

The Lopez one hurt the most for me, if only because I was in a bar full of Stanford fans in Mexico. At least I got a lot of free drinks after that as the bartender befriended me and kept yelling "LOS MARQUETTES!" and ringing a bell nearly ever time we scored.

[PBRme]

Favorite play: Do half court shot over ND.
Favorite game: Any win over ND, especially with Digger as coach.
Favorite season: 77.
Favorite player: Damon Key
Favorite coach: Al
Favorite team: 77
Favorite jersey: 74 road baby blue
Favorite T-shirt: The scrawny plucked chicken being held by the neck in a MU Fist with Notre Dame down the chicken

[Billy Hoyle]

I'd like to change my least favorite game to Billy's answer, I'd blocked that one out. Damn washington

that one was personal for me too which really made it sting.

I ended up sitting on the front step of a brownstone in Manhattan for about 2 hours afterward. My wife went to our friend's birthday party on her own.

[dgies9156]

Least favorite play: Allie McGuire stepping on the out-of-bounds line, against Ohio State, Athens, GA, March 18, 1971
Least favorite game:  North Carolina State, Al McGuire hit with two technicals and Marquette loses the national championship 76-64
Least Favorite Game attended:  Marquette vs. North Carolina, January 19, 1986. We choked.
                                              Marquette vs. Indiana, March 15, 1973, we choked in Bobby Knight's first tournament appearance, 75-69
Least favorite season:  1987-1988, 1988-1989
Least favorite player:  Joey Hauser. What a jerk.
Least favorite coach:  Wojo, did less with more than any other coach I knew.
Least favorite team:  2013-2014. Buzz tanked and the team tanked that season

[flash]

Favorite play: Novak corner 3 game winner vs ND or Vander blue layup vs Davidson
Favorite game: MU over Kentucky to get to final four
Favorite game attended: MU over #1 Villanova.  Made a day of decision to go up, got tix for under $12.  Amazing night
Favorite season: 2008-2009  Loved the last year of the 3 amigos so sad when Dominic James broke the foot. 
Favorite player: Travis Diener
Favorite coach: Buzz Williams
Favorite team: 2011-2012 Jae Crowder BEAST player of the year.  Loved the toughness of that team
Favorite jersey: 2010-2011 baby blues. 

[Billy Hoyle]

Least Favorite Game attended:  Marquette vs. North Carolina, January 19, 1986. We choked.

that game was the first time I'd ever heard of MU. After church, we went to my grandmother's house for dinner. I was watching that game in her living room and was immediately drawn to MU. My dad called me into the dining room for dinner, turning off the TV, and I didn't know who won that game for a ling time. But I did know I liked this college team called Marquette.

[tower912]

Least Favorite Game attended:  Marquette vs. North Carolina, January 19, 1986. We choked.
                                             

I thought long and hard about that one.   Place was rocking, Pops Sims had a career day, all there for the taking.     I was not the guy throwing pennies, but I was in the student section and it was nuts.       The thing that stopped me it that the David Rivers shot a year prior hurt me worse in the moment.      Looking back, the UNC loss was a negative turning point for the program.   

[wadesworld]

Favorite play: Wade dunk on Estill followed by Blue layup against Davidson.  Lucky enough to be at both.
Favorite game: 2003 Elite 8.  At West Virginia 2012 because those fans during the interview, and because it exposed Brent for his life lessons...
Favorite game attended: 2003 Elite 8 followed by Vander layup against Davidson
Favorite season: 2003 followed by 2012
Favorite player: Wade followed by Oluoma Nnamaka
Favorite coach: Shaka da World
Favorite team: 2003 - Wade, Jackson, Diener
Favorite jersey: 2003

[muwarrior69]

Favorite Nickname: Warriors

Favorite Mascot: Willie Wampum

[Goose]

BLM

I have a soft spot in my MU heart for the WV win and the Vander layup. Also, Vander in the BE tourney, I was in China following online and went crazy when he delivered. Vander is a top ten favorite of mine.

[wadesworld]

BLM

I have a soft spot in my MU heart for the WV win and the Vander layup. Also, Vander in the BE tourney, I was in China following online and went crazy when he delivered. Vander is a top ten favorite of mine.

He was incredible on that Tourney run. That play plus I remember a runout dunk against Miami vividly from that run.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Favorite play: Jake Thomas four point play vs. Syracuse
Favorite game: s16 2013 vs. Miami "Miami by a sizable margin."
Favorite game attended: 2013 vs. Syracuse (Regular season game obviously)
Favorite season: 2011-2012
Favorite player: DJO
Favorite coach: None really. Buzz left a bad taste in my mouth and wasn't around for the McGuire years.
Favorite team: 2011-2012
Favorite jersey: 2010-2016

[Galway Eagle]

Favorite play: Jake Thomas four point play vs. Syracuse
Favorite game: s16 2013 vs. Miami "Miami by a sizable margin."
Favorite game attended: 2013 vs. Syracuse (Regular season game obviously)
Favorite season: 2011-2012
Favorite player: DJO
Favorite coach: None really. Buzz left a bad taste in my mouth and wasn't around for the McGuire years.
Favorite team: 2011-2012
Favorite jersey: 2010-2016

The 2010-11 jersey was different and resembled the prior years converse jersey. The jersey you're thinking of was 11-16 had the color differentiation on the front and a bend on the side stripes.

[GooooMarquette]

Favorite play: Wardle beats UL on 3 in 2OT (https://web.archive.org/web/19980625192825/http://www.gomarquette.edu/mbball/audio/1997-98/louisvilleshort.wav)
Favorite game: MU over UL on Wardle 3 in 2OT
Favorite game attended: '77 NCAA Title game
Favorite season: 02-03 (Never thought I'd see another Final Four)
Favorite player: Aaron Hutchins
Favorite coach: Al
Favorite team: 09-10
Favorite jersey: Maurice Lucas era in baby blue

[Lennys Tap]

Least Favorite Play: Jerome Whitehead's flagrant foul and Hank's subsequent T vs Miami O in the 1978 tournament.
Least Favorite Game: Loss to Ohio State (1071) in the NCAAs that that ended our perfect season (we were 27-0 at the time).
Least Favorite Game Attended: OT loss to Purdue and Rick Mount in the E8 (Madison,1969). Runner up: E8 loss to 32-0 Indiana (Baton Rouge, 1976).
Least Favorite Season:2013-14.
Least Favorite Player: Odartey Blankson
Least Favorite Coach: Tom Crean
Least Favorite Team: 2020-21
Least Favorite Jerseys: The tight fitting tank tops we sported a few years back.

[mubb3434]

Running Marquette Overload, the most frequent comments I get are people's love for Tony Miller.  A Tony Miller post generates more likes and comments than anyone outside of Dwyane Wade.  This got me thinking what are other people's all-time Marquette favorites.  I don't care who or what the best or most important was.  I want to know what your favorites are.

Favorite play: Vander Blue game winner vs. Davidson
Favorite game: Marquette vs. Davidson (2013)
Favorite game attended: Marquette vs. Butler (Rupp Arena 2013)
Favorite season: 2003
Favorite player: Travis Diener
Favorite coach: Tom Crean
Favorite team: 2003
Favorite jersey: championship blues

[Dickthedribbler]

FAVORITE  PLAY: March 26, 1977 Butch Lee
                               Court length pass to Jerome
                               Whitehead and what ensued.

                   GAME: March 28, 1977 National
                                Championship Game.

                   ATTENDED: Win over #1 Villanova
                                          at BC.

                   SEASON: 1970-71 undefeated
                                     regular season.

                   PLAYER: George Thompson. He got
                                   it all started.

                  COACH: Alfred McGuire.

                  TEAM: 1976-77.

                  JERSEYS: Tie: Bumblebees because
                                     they were cool and
                                     they pizzed off the NCAA
                                     and certain other coaches.

                                    Untuckeds because they
                                    we're really cool and they
                                    pizzed off the NCAA and
                                    certain other coaches.
         

[CTWarrior]

Favorite play:  Doc Rivers 30 footer to beat ND, Jan 1981
Favorite game:  MU beats Kentucky to advance to Final Four March, 2003
Favorite game attended:  Doc Rivers 30 footer to beat ND, Jan 1981
Favorite season:  2002-2003
Favorite player:  Damon Key
Favorite coach:  Buzz Williams (I came to MU after McGuire)
Favorite team:  2002-2003
Favorite jersey:  The Jae Crowder era home whites

[willie warrior]

Favorite Nickname: Warriors

This is truth. Nothing else come close, except maybe Golden Avalanche

[dgies9156]

Brother Lenny,

I thought about adding that Rick Mount shot as well. But in that game, if Rick Cobb had hit his free throws at the end of regulation, there would have been no Rick Mount shot.

Was not at that game, but it kept us out of our first final four.

[Goose]

dgies

I was at the Rick Mount game and was heartbroken. Granted, I was a little guy and took loses very hard. Worse, Ric Cobb is one of my favorite MU players off the court and he did miss key free throws.

[MUfan12]

Favorite play: Wade dunking on Estill.
Favorite game: Elite 8, 2003
Favorite game attended: See above
Favorite season: 2011-12
Favorite player: Wade
Favorite coach: Buzz, with Shaka closing fast
Favorite team: 2008-09
Favorite jersey: 1974 Home

Some tough calls... As we get farther from '03 some of the magic has faded. But even with some lean years there have been incredible games I've been lucky enough to attend.

[willie warrior]

I thought long and hard about that one.   Place was rocking, Pops Sims had a career day, all there for the taking.     I was not the guy throwing pennies, but I was in the student section and it was nuts.       The thing that stopped me it that the David Rivers shot a year prior hurt me worse in the moment.      Looking back, the UNC loss was a negative turning point for the program.   

Ah yes. The Joe Wolf homecoming game
Was also at that game. Most electric atmosphere I ever experienced at a game.