#MUBB Celebrates 2022-23 Campaign At Annual Banquet

The Marquette University men's basketball team celebrated its historic 2022-23 campaign Tuesday night in front of a capacity crowd at the Italian Community Center in the Third Ward.

The festivities included remarks from head coach Shaka Smart, highlight videos and the presentation of the team awards.

The team also honored Barb Kellaher, the program's director of basketball administration, who is retiring after 20 years with the team.

2023 MUBB Team Awards and Recipients

Most Valuable Player Award: Tyler Kolek
Academic Excellence Award: Stevie Mitchell
Dwyane Wade Legacy of Leadership Award: Oso Ighodaro
Deflection Champion Award: Stevie Mitchell
Lockdown Award: Olivier-Maxence Prosper
Offensive Rebounding Champion Award: Olivier-Maxence Prosper & Oso Ighodaro
UBUNTU Award: Stevie Mitchell
Play of the Year Award: Olivier-Maxence Prosper

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 9^th) 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 29 wins were the most in program history. The team finished 28-1 in 1970-71, falling to Ohio State, 60-59, in the NCAA tournament for its lone 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 10th in the nation in average attendance (14,992) and had five sellouts.