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Watching the Cavs-Bulls game and Jimmy Butler got me thinking about how many good players were on that 2009 Marquette team. Butler was only a sophomore so he wasn't all that productive compared to his later seasons, but that team had at least 5 very good/great college players. Obviously UConn has had a few teams over the years that were more loaded than them but you don't think of Marquette that way.
Jerel McNeal is the school's all time leading scorer and was a great defender(A.J ankle breaker notwithstanding). Wesley Matthews was a 19 ppg scorer and is now a 15 ppg scorer in the NBA. Lazar Heyward was a first round pick and the school's second leading all time scorer. Dominic James was a Big East rookie of the year who averaged double digits every year in college.
It's a testament to how good the Big East was back then that they only finished fifth in the conference. That road win by UConn for JC's 800th is also one of the better regular season wins in program history, IMO.
Jerel McNeal is the school's all time leading scorer and was a great defender(A.J ankle breaker notwithstanding). Wesley Matthews was a 19 ppg scorer and is now a 15 ppg scorer in the NBA. Lazar Heyward was a first round pick and the school's second leading all time scorer. Dominic James was a Big East rookie of the year who averaged double digits every year in college.
It's a testament to how good the Big East was back then that they only finished fifth in the conference. That road win by UConn for JC's 800th is also one of the better regular season wins in program history, IMO.