NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Marquette

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#121 Marquette

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Projection: likely out

Marquette’s résumé is defined by comfortable nonconference blowouts and a gritty home win over Xavier, but those highlights are overwhelmed by ugly road losses at Purdue, Connecticut, Creighton and Wisconsin and damaging conference setbacks at Seton Hall and Georgetown plus narrow defeats at neutral sites to Oklahoma and to Villanova at home. The absence of a true road or neutral signature victory and the accumulation of bad away results erode the value of the good wins and create the impression of a team that has not proven itself outside Milwaukee, so the committee is likely to view the résumé as short on quality wins and long on harmful losses. The remaining slate offers clear chances to alter that narrative with a big home date against Creighton and the opportunity to steal wins at Villanova or Butler, but until those are seized the overall picture looks like a miss rather than a make.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/3	SUNY Albany	303	W80-53
11/5	Southern Univ	252	W100-82
11/9	(N)Indiana	37	L100-77
11/12	Ark Little Rock	291	W89-49
11/15	Maryland	114	L89-82
11/19	Dayton	67	L77-71
11/22	C Michigan	320	W85-71
11/28	(N)Oklahoma	58	L75-74
12/2	Valparaiso	161	W75-72
12/6	@Wisconsin	38	L96-76
12/13	@Purdue	4	L79-59
12/17	Georgetown	100	L78-69
12/20	@Creighton	51	L84-63
12/30	Seton Hall	50	L79-73
1/4	@Connecticut	11	L73-57
1/7	Xavier	92	W66-65
1/10	Villanova	27	L76-73
1/13	@St John's	20	L92-68
1/16	@DePaul	106	L80-75
1/19	Providence	64	41%
1/23	@Butler	56	19%
1/27	Creighton	51	34%
1/31	@Seton Hall	50	16%
2/7	Butler	56	37%
2/10	@Villanova	27	9%
2/14	@Xavier	92	28%
2/18	St John's	20	16%
2/24	@Georgetown	100	32%
3/1	DePaul	106	56%
3/4	@Providence	64	21%
3/7	Connecticut	11	11%