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Sick of hard-hitting analysis of the 2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament? Up to your eyeballs in expert picks chock-full of astute takes on players to watch and budding upsets? Fear not, friends: your pals at Anonymous Eagle are here to inject some half-baked, homespun “insight” into the proceedings, with our (mostly) annual region-by-region tour, as […]
Sick of hard-hitting analysis of the 2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament? Up to your eyeballs in expert picks chock-full of astute takes on players to watch and budding upsets? Fear not, friends: your pals at Anonymous Eagle are here to inject some half-baked, homespun “insight” into the proceedings, with our (mostly) annual region-by-region tour, as […]
On Sunday, March 1st, Marquette women’s basketball ended the regular season with a 69-65 road win over Providence. On Saturday, March 7th, Marquette women’s basketball ended their run in the Big East tournament after just one game, falling 57-44 to Creighton in the quarterfinals. On Sunday, March 15th, Marquette women’s basketball had their season ended […]
Tonight, we find out the 68 teams in the 2026 NCAA Basketball Tournaments. But before we get there, there are nine more conference championship games starting at 11am Central with the Ivy League for the men and both the Patriot League and the NEC for the women. The schedule below is as accurate as I […]
Believe it or not, Marquette women’s lacrosse did not set a team record for fewest goals scored in a win on Saturday. That honor is probably permanently locked into a 5-4 overtime victory on the road against UC Davis back in 2015. However, Marquette did score just six goals — a season low — and […]
The Good News: There’s 27 nationally televised college basketball games on today. The Better News: 17 of the 27 are tournament championship games, meaning that there is an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament on the line. The Slightly Less Great News: I’m putting this together on Friday afternoon so it can publish very early […]
Jack Albright from the Marquette Wire was at Madison Square Garden for the Big East tournament, and that meant he got a chance to talk to freshman guard Adrien Stevens after Marquette men’s basketball lost to Xavier in the first round to end the Golden Eagles’ season. It’s reasonable to wonder what the future holds […]
I wonder how Marquette women’s lacrosse spent the day on Tuesday. They were supposed to host Detroit Mercy for a mid-day start in the middle of spring break on campus, but the Titans ended up being forced to withdraw from the game because of a lack of available healthy players after a 20-3 loss to […]
Back in mid-February, I had some free time on the calendar and I did a LIVE Q&A on the site. It went really well, as I spent pretty much an entire morning answering questions from YOU, the handsome and intelligent Anonymous Eagle readers. SO WE’RE BRINGING IT BACK! On MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2026, I will […]
The 2025-26 Marquette men’s basketball season is in the rear view mirror after Wednesday night’s 89-87 loss to Xavier in the first round of the Big East tournament, and so our eyes turn to the future for head coach Shaka Smart and the program that he guides. It’s going to be a very interesting offseason, […]
I have a theory. I’ve only been watching lacrosse seriously since 2013, so I’m still working out ideas of how all of this works. Forgive me if I’m stepping over some lines of unwritten rules or something. This is my theory: I think it’s hard to win a lacrosse game when you go nearly 32 […]
As Xavier developed their first half advantage out to 29-19 with just under 10 minutes left in the first half at Madison Square Garden I thought to myself, “ah, yes, the pattern of what happened in the first half of the visit to Xavier in the regular season is repeating itself, just a little bit […]
The Big East announced the last of the 2025-26 men’s basketball awards on Wednesday afternoon in advance of the start of the conference tournament, and we got a bit of good or at the very least somewhat unexpected news out of New York. Marquette guard Nigel James has been named Big East Freshman of the […]
THE VITALS: #7 Marquette Golden Eagles (12-19, 7-13 Big East) vs #10 Xavier Musketeers (14-17, 6-14 Big East) THE DATE: Wednesday, March 11, 2026 THE TIME: Approximately 5:30pm Central, but really 30 minutes after the end of #8 Butler vs #9 Providence, which starts at 3pm Central. THE LOCATION: Madison Square Garden, New York, New […]
2026 Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament First Round #7 Marquette Golden Eagles (12-19, 7-13 Big East) vs #10 Xavier Musketeers (14-17, 6-14 Big East) Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026Time: Approximately 5:30pm Central, but really 30 minutes after the end of #8 Butler vs #9 Providence, which starts at 3pm Central.Location: Madison Square Garden, New York, […]
Jon Rothstein tweeted it and Ben Steele of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel confirmed it, so it’s as real as it can get: Marquette men’s basketball will start a home-and-home series with Michigan next season. The 2026-27 season game will be in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while the 2027-28 season game will be in Milwaukee. The contracts […]
Have you guys ever noticed that really terrific ideas come to you while you’re taking a shower? Or doing some other task that you’ve done a million times before and you can turn your brain off and accomplish it successfully and safely? The thesis statement for this blog comes directly to you from my brain […]
How much do you want to care about Marquette’s defense giving up 12 goals to Mercer? It was 15-6 at halftime, 17-11 going into the fourth quarter. Really, it was just that 15 minutes that was a problem, giving up five goals on 14 shots and seven on frame. All three of those numbers were […]
With a NET ranking of #69 on Monday morning, we know that Marquette women’s basketball is not going to the NCAA tournament as an at-large qualifier this season. We can hash out the moment when it became very obvious that was not going to happen this season, but with Cara Consuegra’s Golden Eagles eliminated from […]
I told you when I made my Big East honors picks last week, the league LOOOOOOVES getting these awards press releases out as soon as they can. That’s why we got the All-Big East Teams announced on Sunday morning, about 12 hours after the regular season ended. The big news for you, the discerning and […]
Kind of a short day of basketball today with just 22 games on national television, but the volume is made up for with quality. 19 of the 22 games on deck for today are part of a conference tournament one way or another, and 12 of them have an NCAA tournament autobid on the line. […]
We had to wait for the very last play of the very last regular season game of the 2025-26 Big East men’s basketball calendar to finally lock all 11 seeds of the conference tournament into place, but as of midnight on Saturday, the Big East tournament bracket is set! The final outcome of Georgetown defeating […]
If you didn’t get to Fiserv for men’s basketball on Saturday but instead went out to Valley Fields for some lacrosse, you got treated to a fireworks show. Five different Golden Eagles — including defenseman Brady Nicholas!! — posted a hat trick as Marquette men’s lacrosse threw together a 21-12 victory over Mercer. It’s the […]
Okay, so this Big East tournament quarterfinal game tipped off right about at the 2 hour mark of the men’s basketball game. I don’t know if you saw that one, but uh, there was a lot going on at the end of that one. This was my experience with finding out what was going on […]
When Solo Ball hit a three-pointer to put #4 UConn up 9-5 with just over three minutes gone in Saturday’s Marquette men’s basketball regular season finale, I thought to myself, “well, Marquette’s in trouble here.” Ball has not been shooting the three well this season, and hitting his first attempt of the game felt like […]