Marquette University Athletics
#MUBB Earns 35th NCAA Tournament Invite
3/12/2023 5:53:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Golden Eagles earn No. 2 seed in East Region
Milwaukee – The No. 6/6 Marquette University men's basketball team (28-6, 17-3 BIG EAST) has earned an automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship and will face Vermont (23-10, 14-2 America East) in the first round on Friday, March 17 at Nation Wide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
Marquette claimed the BIG EAST Conference's automatic bid by earning the program's first-ever BIG EAST tourney crown at Madison Square Garden with a 65-51 win over No. 15/15 Xavier Saturday night.
The Golden Eagles are the No. 2 seed in the East Region and will face 15th-seeded Vermont. This is Marquette's highest seed in program history.
Tip time and television coverage will be announced later this evening. Marquette is 2-0 all-time against Vermont. MU last faced Vermont on Dec. 5, 2017, when the Golden Eagles defeated the Catamounts 91-81.
NCAA tickets are limited. Marquette basketball season ticket members, donors and students will be receiving an email on the process for requesting tickets for the first-round game. The deadline to request tickets is Monday, March 13 at 12 p.m. CT. NCAA seat allocation will be determined by Blue & Gold Fund priority point rank. For up-to-date NCAA ticket information, please visit GoMarquette.com or call 414-288-GOMU.
Marquette is making its 35th appearance in the NCAA tournament and is participating in back-to-back events for first time since 2012-13 (last of eight-straight trips). The program, which claimed the national title in 1977 under legendary head coach Al McGuire, also owns 16 trips to the Sweet Sixteen and has participated in the Final Four on three occasions (1974, 1977, 2003).
2022-23 Season Highlights
Marquette claimed the BIG EAST Conference's automatic bid by earning the program's first-ever BIG EAST tourney crown at Madison Square Garden with a 65-51 win over No. 15/15 Xavier Saturday night.
The Golden Eagles are the No. 2 seed in the East Region and will face 15th-seeded Vermont. This is Marquette's highest seed in program history.
Tip time and television coverage will be announced later this evening. Marquette is 2-0 all-time against Vermont. MU last faced Vermont on Dec. 5, 2017, when the Golden Eagles defeated the Catamounts 91-81.
NCAA tickets are limited. Marquette basketball season ticket members, donors and students will be receiving an email on the process for requesting tickets for the first-round game. The deadline to request tickets is Monday, March 13 at 12 p.m. CT. NCAA seat allocation will be determined by Blue & Gold Fund priority point rank. For up-to-date NCAA ticket information, please visit GoMarquette.com or call 414-288-GOMU.
Marquette is making its 35th appearance in the NCAA tournament and is participating in back-to-back events for first time since 2012-13 (last of eight-straight trips). The program, which claimed the national title in 1977 under legendary head coach Al McGuire, also owns 16 trips to the Sweet Sixteen and has participated in the Final Four on three occasions (1974, 1977, 2003).
2022-23 Season Highlights
- The Golden Eagles claimed their first-ever outright BIG EAST title and fourth title all-time (1993-94 – Great Midwest Conference, 2002-03 – Conference USA, 2012-13 – BIG EAST) since beginning league affiliation in 1989-90.
- Marquette's tourney title was its second in school history and first in the BIG EAST since joining the league in 2005-06. MU won four games in four days in St. Louis in 1996-97 to earn the Conference USA title
- Tyler Kolek was named BIG EAST Player of the Year, the third MU player (Jae Crowder, 2011-12 – Markus Howard, 2018-19) to earn the award. He was also named the league tourney's Dave Gavitt Most Outstanding Player
- Shaka Smart earned BIG EAST Coach of the Year, the first Marquette coach to claim the accolade and first conference honor in 14 seasons as head coach
- Kolek was named All-BIG EAST First Team and Oso Ighodaro and Kam Jones were both named All-BIG EAST Second Team.
- David Joplin earned the BIG EAST Sixth Man Award
- Marquette finished 17-3 in BIG EAST play, tying Syracuse (2011-12) for most regular season wins in league history.
- Since the BIG EAST was formed in 1979-80, no team has ever been picked ninth-or-lower (MU selected 9th) and earned at least a share of first place. In 1989-90, UConn was slotted eighth in the preseason poll and tied Syracuse for the regular season title.
- MU's 28 wins match the highest single-season total in program history. The team finished 28-1 in 1970-71, falling to Ohio State, 60-59, in the NCAA tournament for its long loss
- Marquette finished 16-1 at home in 2022-23, including a 10-0 mark in BIG EAST play. The team's current 18-game homecourt winning streak dating back to 2021-22 is the longest in the conference
- Marquette set a Fiserv Forum attendance record (18,012) against St. John's on March 4, 2023, finished 11th in the nation in average attendance (14,992) and had five sellouts.
- 1977 NCAA Champions (defeated North Carolina 67-59 in Atlanta in Al McGuire's last game)
- Ranked in the top-45 in NCAA history in total wins (1,710) and winning percentage (.619)
- Program is making 35th NCAA appearance, tied for 10th highest total all-time
- 52nd postseason appearance (35 NCAA, 16 NIT, 1 National Catholic Championship; top-10 among all Division I programs)
- Three trips to the Final Four (1974, 1977, 2003)
- 16 trips to the Sweet 16 (most recently 2012-13 – Elite Eight)
- One of just 20 schools to have won both an NCAA and NIT Championship (1970)
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