At Marquette

[REB1094]

Hassan Diarra is going to steal Kolek’s lunch money all night

 

[Bomber36]

At Marquette feels like a huge game for a number of reasons. Hurley needs to show he can win these really tough conference road games. Marquette is good and should be ranked. Their losses earlier in the season to Purdue and Wisconsin could've gone either way and they look even better right now. This is an athletic and dynamic team that will look to run with us. If we win this one we're taking the next three after with a huge home matchup revenge game against Xavier with a rocking Gampel.

Wednesday's game will say a lot about this team.

Also only lost by 5 at PC in double OT.

 

[Tenspro2002]

This is an enormous game. I don't buy the "Hurley needs to prove" drama BS, but just examining the schedule, if we were to rank the difficulty of each of the 20 Big East games, it would look something like this:

1. @ Xavier
2. @ Creighton
3. @ PC
4. @ Marquette
5. vs. Xavier
6. @ Nova
7. vs. Creighton
8. @ Seton Hall
9. vs. Marquette
10. @ Butler
11. vs. PC
12. vs. Nova
13. @ St. John's
14. vs. Seton Hall
15. @ DePaul
16. vs. Butler
17. @ Georgetown
18. vs. St. John's
19. vs. DePaul
20. vs. Georgetown

Our schedule so far has been fairly bifurcated (trifurcated?). We've won the easiest game on the schedule (#20) and 3 around the middle (#7,10,12), but fell flat on our face in our 2 opportunities against the toughest part of the schedule (#1,3).

If we're going to claim to be the best team in conference, a top 10 team, and on the path to a #1/2 seed, we have to win the majority of these top 5-6 contests in conference. If we lose at Marquette, that's pretty much out the window.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

What goes into calculating this?

 

[jibsey]

These are the games that build character. Looking forward to it.

 

[auror]

What goes into calculating this?

It's a secret formula I think. But I think it's mostly like close game + high ranks + more offense.