NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Marquette

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#114 Marquette

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Projected seed: 2 (automatic qualifier)

Marquette’s résumé combines dominant nonconference blowouts and a home win over Xavier that highlight offensive upside, but it is weighed down by lopsided defeats at Wisconsin, at Purdue, at Creighton and at Connecticut that expose real problems away from home. The team has shown it can compete in tight neutral-site games like the one with Oklahoma and in a close home contest with Villanova, yet damaging setbacks, including a neutral-site loss to Indiana, undercut those positives and leave the résumé unsteady. The remaining Big East slate, with road tests at St John’s, at Villanova, at Providence and at Butler and home chances against Creighton and Butler plus matchups with Georgetown and DePaul, offers clear opportunities to add meaningful road or neutral victories, and unless Marquette can collect those signature wins the poor results already on the résumé will likely define its standing.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/3	SUNY Albany	305	W80-53
11/5	Southern Univ	277	W100-82
11/9	(N)Indiana	27	L100-77
11/12	Ark Little Rock	290	W89-49
11/15	Maryland	123	L89-82
11/19	Dayton	74	L77-71
11/22	C Michigan	317	W85-71
11/28	(N)Oklahoma	54	L75-74
12/2	Valparaiso	180	W75-72
12/6	@Wisconsin	38	L96-76
12/13	@Purdue	4	L79-59
12/17	Georgetown	109	L78-69
12/20	@Creighton	44	L84-63
12/30	Seton Hall	43	L79-73
1/4	@Connecticut	9	L73-57
1/7	Xavier	104	W66-65
1/10	Villanova	25	L76-73
1/13	@St John's	18	7%
1/16	@DePaul	108	35%
1/19	Providence	67	43%
1/23	@Butler	58	21%
1/27	Creighton	44	33%
1/31	@Seton Hall	43	15%
2/7	Butler	58	40%
2/10	@Villanova	25	10%
2/14	@Xavier	104	33%
2/18	St John's	18	18%
2/24	@Georgetown	109	37%
3/1	DePaul	108	57%
3/4	@Providence	67	23%
3/7	Connecticut	9	11%