1977 Championship 50th Anniversary (New Uniform)

[Uncle Rico]

You can still smoke everywhere, people will just tell you to put it out or ticket you more often than before!

Woke mob

[Billy Hoyle]

It was.  You could smoke everywhere. 

MU students will never know the joy of walking through a cloud of secondhand smoke to enter McCormick Hall.

[MuggsyB]

.... did you read the first post of this thread?

I missed it.  Ty.

[sailwi]

I was a HS junior in Connecticut in 1976-77, and Marquette was not yet on my radar as a possible destination. Pretty much everything I knew about the school, the Warriors and Al McGuire came from the few games a season that were on national TV and the occasional Sports Illustrated mentions. I learned a lot more during the NCAA Tournament.

MU was the defending national champion when I decided to go there, and "we" were expected to make another Final Four run in 1978. I proudly wore my Marquette t-shirt and hat to school the day before the NCAAT started. Then the Warriors promptly lost to Miami of Ohio, and my buddies trash-talked me for weeks ... as if I had anything to do with the loss. Thanks a lot, Jerome Whitehead!

Anyhoo, I'm looking forward to seeing the various celebrations of and tributes to the 1976-77 Warriors. That must have been an incredible time to have been a Marquette student.

It wasn't Whitehead it was the idiot referee.

[Shooter McGavin]

MU students will never know the joy of walking through a cloud of secondhand smoke to enter McCormick Hall.

You could still buy cigarettes at McCormick Hall from a cigarette machine in 1988-1989.

[Viper]

Same except replace, 78 with 2009, Miami of OH with Mizzou, and Whitehead with Lazar.

no disrespect to Maurice Acker, but that's a FF team if Dominator Dominic James doesn't break his foot.

[Galway Eagle]

no disrespect to Maurice Acker, but that's a FF team if Dominator Dominic James doesn't break his foot.

The team that lost to Dayton & South Florida?

[Scoop Snoop]

The team that lost to Dayton & South Florida?

Pretty sure we've done this more than once, so cut that team some slack, OK?.

Maybe Fieldhouse will show up here and provide the details in tricolor.

[Billy Hoyle]

no disrespect to Maurice Acker, but that's a FF team if Dominator Dominic James doesn't break his foot.

Definitely a second weekend team. We were #8/#10 when DJ got hurt. 23-4, 12-2 in the BE. Not sure if we were Final Four caliber. UConn, Nova, MSU, and UNC were the final four teams that year.

DJ broke his foot during the UConn game, which started our four game losing streak, against #2, #6, #3, and #25. Then we lost in the BET to #10 Villanova.

Honestly, I felt we would have beaten Mizzou had DJ not played in that game. Waiting for us would have been #3 Memphis then UConn.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

The team that lost to Dayton & South Florida?

So what?  The 2003 team lost to Dayton and East Carolina.

[The Sultan]

Pretty sure we've done this more than once, so cut that team some slack, OK?.

Maybe Fieldhouse will show up here and provide the details in tricolor.

Shut up

[Galway Eagle]

So what?  The 2003 team lost to Dayton and East Carolina.

And almost lost to Holy Cross and we wouldn't remember them at all. My point is they had some obvious issues even at their peak so locking them in as a FF team is a stretch. It was hardly Purdue or 2024 UConn where it was glaringly obvious they were untouchable and making the FF