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Right about 11am on Monday, On3’s Talia Goodman reported that Marquette volleyball setter Isabela Haggard is entering the transfer portal. The timing of that is fascinating, because at almost exactly the same time, Marquette hit publish on their press release announcing that Brazilian junior national team setter Luanna Markus had signed with the Golden Eagles […]
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Ah, finally, a week with no Monday games so we can relax a little bit. In fact, it’s a big week of relaxing in the Big East. It’s Finals Week at Marquette and apparently across a lot of the rest of the conference as well. There are just four men’s basketball games before 6pm Central […]
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You don’t need to be great for 40 minutes to blow a team out, you just need to be great for stretches at a time. Take Marquette women’s basketball on Sunday afternoon at the McGuire Center. They were down 10-7 to Butler with 4:53 to play in the first quarter. Then they led 19-14 at […]
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I’ve been trying to figure out the right compliment for how Marquette volleyball went about their business on Saturday afternoon in Kentucky, and I think I can hit the right note this way: Marquette made #2 seed and host Louisville beat them. Marquette had a 2-1 set lead on the road against the #2 seed […]
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For about seven minutes, we had some standard issue if not low scoring basketball at the Kohl Center on Saturday. A layup from Chase Ross pulled Marquette within one, 6-5. And then Wisconsin scored 10 of the next 12 points. 16-7 Badgers. It would be a 15-4 UW run before Marquette scored consecutive baskets again, […]
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THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles at RV Wisconsin-Madison Badgers THE DATE: Saturday, December 6, 2025 THE TIME: 1pm Central THE LOCATION: Kohl Center, Madison, Wisconsin THE TELEVISION: FS1, with Jeff Levering and LaPhonso Ellis calling the action THE STREAMING: FoxSports.com/live or the Fox Sports app THE RADIO: 94.5 FM/ESPN Milwaukee, available online via The Varsity Network. THE […]
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2025 NCAA Volleyball Tournament Second Round #2 Louisville Cardinals (25-6, 16-4 ACC) vs Marquette Golden Eagles (18-10, 11-5 Big East) Date: Saturday, December 6, 2025Time: 5pm CentralLocation: L&N Federal Credit Union Arena, Louisville, KentuckyStreaming: ESPN+Live Stats: Stat BroadcastTwitter Updates: @MarquetteVBBluesky Updates: @AnonymousEagle All-Time Series: Louisville leads, 27-5… but Marquette did win the last meeting, 3-0, in the 2013 […]
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For the fourth consecutive season — and the first time under first year head coach Tom Mendoza! — Marquette volleyball has advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament! The Golden Eagles took advantage of a favorable draw from the tournament committee and picked up a 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 25-16) sweep of #7 seed […]
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Name: University of Wisconsin-Madison Location: Madison, Wisconsin Founded: 1848 Enrollment: 51,822 students for Fall 2025, with 37,198 undergraduates School Colors: Cardinal and white, officially, but no one is going to yell at you if you say red and white. Nickname: Badgers Why “Badgers?” Wisconsin was dubbed the “Badger State” because of the lead miners who first settled there in the 1820s and […]
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FULL TRANSPARENCY: I’m starting work on this with 7:30 left in the game and Marquette up 72-40. Why start the recap before the game is over? Uh, mostly because it’s been over. 23-9 Marquette at the end of the first quarter, powered by the Golden Eagles getting a cut throat — their terminology for three […]
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2025 NCAA Volleyball Tournament First Round #7 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (27-5, 15-1 CUSA) vs Marquette Golden Eagles (17-10, 11-5 Big East) Date: Friday, December 5, 2025Time: 3pm CentralLocation: L&N Federal Credit Union Arena, Louisville, KentuckyStreaming: ESPN+Live Stats: Stat Broadcast, probably, but also maybe NCAA.com?Twitter Updates: @MarquetteVB Bluesky Updates: @AnonymousEagle All-Time Series: Marquette leads, 4-2, including […]
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I’ve made two choices with this preview. The first is that I am not going to do a Where Are We Now? post for Big East women’s basketball. The fact of the matter is that everyone in the league is somewhere between four and eight games played right now. That’s not exactly a lot of […]
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Back in 2007, Michael Bisping and Matt Hamill fought in the light heavyweight weight class at UFC 75. Both men were undefeated at the time, although Bisping was the more experienced fighter and had come out victorious in the same weight class in The Ultimate Fighter 3 in the summer of 2006. The fight went […]
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THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (4-4) vs Valparaiso Beacons (5-2) THE DATE: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 THE TIME: 7pm Central THE LOCATION: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin THE STAKES: Marquette is looking to avoid dropping under .500 after December 1st in a normal season for the first time since the last game of the 2014-15 season. […]
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Name: Valparaiso University Location: Valparaiso, Indiana So they just stole their name from the city, huh? Yep, and if we’re being honest, the city didn’t come up with the name on their own anyway. The city was founded in 1836 as Portersville and it was the county seat for Porter County. The change came in […]
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Feast Week is over, we’ve got a full four weeks of basketball in the books, and as of Sunday afternoon, Big East league action has started with UConn women’s basketball tangling with Xavier. Plus, Monday is December 1st! If you think of the season as November/December/January/February and March is the postseason, we’re at the one-quarter […]
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The drama over whether or not Marquette volleyball had done enough to earn an at-large bid to the 2025 NCAA tournament did not last very long on Sunday evening. The Golden Eagles were the 14th team announced in the bracket, setting them up with a first round match against #7 seed Western Kentucky. That match […]
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Marquette and Gonzaga squared off in the consolation game of the Coconut Hoops event at Florida Gulf Coast’s Alico Arena on Sunday morning, and nope, did not go well for the Golden Eagles. Marquette ended up taking a 65-61 loss to the Bulldogs, leaving them at 0-2 in Florida this weekend and 4-3 on the […]
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Marquette volleyball wrapped up their 27 match schedule over a week ago, and tonight, their restless wait to see if their season continues comes to an end. The Golden Eagles wrapped up their end of the first Big East tournament under the direction of head coach Tom Mendoza with a 3-0 sweep against #12 ranked […]
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Got some bad news for you. Sunday morning is Marquette’s last chance to get a quality non-conference win this year….. and it looks like even if they get it, it won’t be their best win of the season anyway. After Sunday, Marquette has just two non-conference games left: Le Moyne and Truman State. Le Moyne […]
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On Friday, Marquette women’s basketball squared off against #10 Iowa State down at Florida Gulf Coast’s arena in Fort Myers in the first game of the Coconut Hoops event. Between this game being exclusive to FloHoops, me letting my FloHoops subscription lapse when the Big East dropped Flo in favor of ESPN+, Marquette men’s basketball […]
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On Friday, as per usual on game day, YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles men’s basketball made a game day post on Instagram. The text/caption/whatever you want to call it: “Setting our edge.” Now, I don’t know precisely what message head coach Shaka Smart was trying to impart on his team with this message, or even if […]
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THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (3-3) vs Oklahoma Sooners (4-2) THE DATE: Friday, November 28, 2025 THE TIME: 1pm Central THE LOCATION: Credit Union 1 Arena, Chicago, Illinois aka “The home arena for the Illinois-Chicago Flames out of the Missouri Valley Conference.” THE TELEVISION: NBC, with (sigh) John Fanta, Nick Bahe, and Cayleigh Griffin on the […]
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Name: The University of Oklahoma Location: Norman, Oklahoma I’m bad at geography: For a long time, I thought Norman was somewhere out in the sticks of Oklahoma because it’s not Oklahoma City or Tulsa. Turns out, Norman is just a far south suburb of Oklahoma City. Ignore the direction aspect of it, but it’s kind […]
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I don’t think this is a crucial “gotta win this to get to the NCAA tournament” game for Marquette. It would definitely be helpful in that regard, but it’s not crucial. Marquette will be back in action on Sunday for a second game in the Coconut Hoops event at Alico Arena, and I think it’s […]
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