Marquette

It's their first tournament in 4 years, which is a pretty big gap considering their pretty damn good history.

They finished 10-8 in the Big East tying the likes of Seton Hall (who struggled vs us without Thornwell) and Providence, who was a Last Four In.

Common opponents

vs Vandy in Annapolis - W 95-71 in the second game of the season.
vs Michigan in NYC - L 79-61
@ UGA - W 89-79
@ Seton Hall - L 69-66
Seton Hall - W 89-86 (OT)
Seton Hall Big East Tournament - L 82-76

So 3-3 vs common opponents for whatever that's worth with 3 of those games coming vs SHU.

They have beaten the likes of 'Nova and Creighton this year, but have also lost to bad Georgetown and St. John's teams.

They won 4 of their final 5 regular season games but are only 5-5 in the last 10 regular season games. 5-6 in last 11 total.

Both their wins and losses have seen a lot of higher scoring games. So, without knowing much I'd almost say they're like the opposite of us: Can score a lot, but give up a bunch of points.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure our offense will be able to keep up.

eta: They scored 80 or more points in 20 of their games this season and were 76+ in a few more. But they also gave up 80 points or more in 11 games with several more teams scoring in the mid to high 70s.

They also have a pretty bad defense. Basically they try to shoot their opponents out of the gym in their games. Will be interesting to see how our defense plays against their offense, and how well their D helps our anemic offense...

I worry because outside of Thornwell, I'm not sure if we can take advantage of that.

Notice and Dozier are known to have randomly productive games. If either of those can get going to compliment what should be a big game for Thornwell we should be okay.

Their coach

If we get past Marquette how big will the next game be against Duke? I can imagine it'll be a packed house.