Marquette Game Thread

[filbert]

Marquette is #20 in the AP poll, and #22 in the WBCA/USA Today Poll, with a record of 11-1.

Their only loss is on the road at Virginia, a week before SDSU beat the Hokies in the Bahamas. Except for Baylor, this will be the biggest test the Jackrabbits will face all season (and, I'm including any WNIT games we might play). Marquette will possibly be the best women's basketball team ever to visit Frost Arena.

This is a Big Game.

[valleyrabbit]

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Marquette is #20 in the AP poll, and #22 in the WBCA/USA Today Poll, with a record of 11-1.

Their only loss is on the road at Virginia, a week before SDSU beat the Hokies in the Bahamas.  Except for Baylor, this will be the biggest test the Jackrabbits will face all season (and, I'm including any WNIT games we might play).  Marquette will possibly be the best women's basketball team ever to visit Frost Arena.

This is a Big Game.

Cavaliers not Hokies. Be careful someone from Virginia may call us the Coyotes. I know we would be offended by that.

[thebluehatman]

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Marquette called us the Lumberjacks last year

[NightHawk78]

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[quote author=filbert link=1167362717/0#0 date=1167362717]Marquette is #20 in the AP poll, and #22 in the WBCA/USA Today Poll, with a record of 11-1.

Their only loss is on the road at Virginia, a week before SDSU beat the Hokies in the Bahamas. Except for Baylor, this will be the biggest test the Jackrabbits will face all season (and, I'm including any WNIT games we might play). Marquette will possibly be the best women's basketball team ever to visit Frost Arena.

This is a Big Game.

Cavaliers not Hokies. Be careful someone from Virginia may call us the Coyotes. I know we would be offended by that.[/quote]

Virginia Tech are the Hokies, for those wondering.

As for Marquette, they keeping changing their nickname (Hilltoppers, Golden Avalanche, Warriors, Golden Eagles, Gold, Golden Eagles-again). I think I'm going to refer to them as the "Singing (or Dancing?) Farleys" in honor of the late actor/comedian Chris Farley, a Marquette alum.

[filbert]

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Hokies . . . Wahoos . . . who can tell those Virginia schools apart, anyway? :-[

[rabidrabbit]

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From Mike Greenfield's RPI

RPI
By division
Last Updated Fri Dec 29 09:51:46 EST 2006



Team
Rating
v. Top 25
v. 26-50
v. 51-100
1. Tennessee (11-1) 0.7295 4-1 0-0 4-0
2. Geo Washington (10-2) 0.7132 2-2 2-0 4-0
3. Duke (12-0) 0.7033 3-0 1-0 3-0
4. Purdue (12-2) 0.7032 2-1 2-1 4-0
5. Maryland (13-0) 0.6852 2-0 2-0 3-0
6. Marquette (11-1) 0.6823 3-0 0-0 4-1
7. Arizona St (12-1) 0.6695 0-1 5-0 2-0
8. Stanford (8-3) 0.6671 0-2 3-1 2-0
9. Ohio St (10-1) 0.6648 2-1 0-0 2-0
10. Pittsburgh (11-1) 0.6577 0-1 0-0 4-0

Team
Rating
v. Top 25
v. 26-50
v. 51-100
11. Wisc Green Bay (9-3) 0.6549 0-1 1-2 4-0
12. Washington (9-4) 0.6519 0-3 0-0 4-0
13. Connecticut (9-0) 0.6517 1-0 0-0 2-0
14. Indiana (11-3) 0.6514 0-1 2-1 1-1
15. Montana (10-1) 0.6483 0-1 0-0 3-0
16. Baylor (12-1) 0.6472 2-1 2-0 1-0
17. Delaware (10-1) 0.6468 0-0 1-0 2-1
18. Vanderbilt (11-1) 0.6445 0-1 2-0 1-0
19. Bowling Green (8-2) 0.6433 1-1 1-1 1-0
20. Georgia (11-2) 0.6426 1-2 1-0 3-0

Team
Rating
v. Top 25
v. 26-50
v. 51-100
21. LSU (12-1) 0.6395 1-1 2-0 2-0
22. North Carolina (13-0) 0.6334 1-0 0-0 4-0
23. Hofstra (9-1) 0.6284 0-1 2-0 1-0
24. Auburn (11-3) 0.6283 0-2 1-0 3-1
25. Middle Tenn St (10-3) 0.6283 1-2 1-1 2-0
26. Iowa St (10-1) 0.6272 0-0 1-0 3-0
27. Missouri (11-1) 0.6251 0-1 2-0 0-0
28. Rutgers (5-4) 0.6183 0-2 1-1 2-0
29. James Madison (8-2) 0.6177 0-2 0-0 2-0
30. Michigan St (10-2) 0.6163 1-2 1-0 1-0

Team
Rating
v. Top 25
v. 26-50
v. 51-100
31. California (9-3) 0.6133 0-2 1-0 2-1
32. DePaul (10-3) 0.6089 1-0 1-0 2-2
33. Hartford (7-5) 0.6077 0-2 2-2 1-0
34. Temple (7-4) 0.6061 0-2 0-0 2-2
35. Louisville (13-0) 0.6056 0-0 1-0 2-0
36. South Dakota St (9-3) 0.6038 1-1 0-2 1-0
37. Seton Hall (7-3) 0.6031 0-0 1-1 1-1
38. Kansas St (10-1) 0.6017 1-0 0-0 1-1
39. BYU (9-3) 0.6013 1-1 0-1 1-1
40. Notre Dame (9-3) 0.6003 2-1 0-0 0-1

We're getting a top 10 RPI team in, who have one loss. To Virginia, a team we beat on a neutral court. Lady Jacks, Marquette is the best team that we've had visit at FROST.

I hope that people stuff FROST, and ring them cowbells in a happy new year taking Marquette down a couple of notches.

[rabbitman]

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No real suprise....Marquette 'sails' past Navy

No. 20/22 Golden Eagles Breeze Past Navy, 67-40

Krystal Ellis scored 14 points to lead No. 20/22 Marquette past Navy 67-40 Friday night for its 11th consecutive victory and best start in school history. Jasmine McCullough scored all of her 10 points in the first half, and Christina Quaye tied her career high with 12 rebounds for Marquette (12-1), which won 10 of its first 11 games in the 2005-06 season - its previous best start.

http://gomarquette.cstv.com/sports/w...skbl-body.html

Bring your noisemakers to Frost on Sunday...! 8-)

[jackmd]

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Planning to make the trip up later today of first thing tomorrow. We will be bringing at least 15 people and 14 cowbells to the game (5 month old can't ring his yet). Any gathering planned for after the game? I can always crash a party. Tailgating probably not a great idea given the weather.

[SoDak]

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Tailgating probably not a great idea given the weather.

Oh I don't know about that. After todays good soaker rain, the grass is starting to green up nicely in SF. ;D

[89rabbit]

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Marquette Women's Basketeball Site:

http://gomarquette.cstv.com/sports/w...skbl-body.html


Marquette Press Release:

http://gomarquette.cstv.com/sports/w...123006aab.html


Go State!

[89rabbit]

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http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs...38/1002/SPORTS

SDSU women take on No. 20 Marquette today

By Terry Vandrovec
tvandrovec@argusleader.com
PUBLISHED: December 31, 2006

During a 10-3 start, the South Dakota State Jackrabbits have beaten five schools that beat them last season. They're aiming for No. 6 today, hosting No. 20-ranked Marquette at 1 p.m.

But SDSU isn't avenging anything; rather, it's getting accustomed to the rigors of a higher classification.

All of the current players except lone senior Megan Vogel were recruited after the school announced that it jump to NCAA Division I, meaning the Jacks came to college knowing that nothing would come easy.

"We've been in every game mentally and physically, and that's maturity to learn how to do that," SDSU women's basketball coach Aaron Johnston said, "because it doesn't just happen. To come from Division II and look at the scores, there are not a lot of close games going on, and you could take those games off."

That's what happened last year at times - "Those losses probably weren't good losses for us," Jacks sophomore forward Jen Warkenthien said - and in the end any one of the letdowns might have cost the Jacks a spot in the WNIT. They were under consideration in the final hours before the 40-team field was set. . . . (read more)

[mango4]

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does anyone know what time the gates open?

[thebluehatman]

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An hour before game time...But I don't think you'll have to worry about the student section filling up right away before the game until they open it to the public...If you are a student that is.

[mango4]

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I am a student, I will be there right at 12 probably being the first in line

[thebluehatman]

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I'll already be in my spot at that time