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Marquette celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Final Four on Sunday, Feb. 25.
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Marquette honors the 1973-74 Final Four Men's basketball team. This team was the first in MU history to reach the final four.
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Apr 5, 2003 · All-American Nick Collison scored 12 points and had 15 rebounds Saturday night to lift the Jayhawks to a 94-61 victory against overmatched Marquette, the fourth-most lopsided game in Final Four history.
- Opening Round: Marquette 72, Holy Cross 68
- Second Round: Marquette 101, Missouri 92
- Sweet 16: Marquette 77, No. 2 Pittsburgh 74
- Elite Eight: Marquette 83, Kentucky 69
- Final Four: Kansas 94, Marquette 61
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1.Crean had a close relationship with Holy Cross coach Ralph Willard, who gave Crean his first coaching job and employed Crean as an assistant for five years at Western Kentucky and Pittsburgh, so it was an intriguing first-round draw for MU against the 14th-seeded Crusaders. One of Crean's assistants, Darrin Horn, played for Willard at Western Ken...
8.Down the stretch in the overtime period, Marquette connected on all six of its shots, hit all six of its chances at the free throw line and scored 11 consecutive points to hold off Missouri. For the third time in as many postseason games, Diener was the leading scorer for Marquette, tallying 26 points on 8-for-12 shooting. 9.Novak had his One Shi...
16.It was another matchup against a program with Crean connections; Crean had been an assistant at Pittsburgh in the 1994-95 season under Willard. After that season, Crean became an assistant for Tom Izzo at Michigan State, where he was on a Final Four team in 1999 (but left for Marquette before the 2000 Final Four team that defeated Wisconsin). Cr...
22. The signature game of the runfeatured an unforgettable triple-double from Wade (29 points, 11 rebounds, 11 assists). At the time, it was the fifth triple-double on record in NCAA tournament history, joining Gary Grant of Michigan (1987), Shaquille O'Neal of LSU (1992), David Cain of St. John's (1993) and Andre Miller of Utah (1998). It has sinc...
27.With time running down in the first half, Kansas guard Kirk Hinrich missed a three-pointer and Marquette appeared to have pulled down the rebound, only to have Nick Collison somehow come out of the fray with the basketball and a layup. That basket, with 6.9 seconds left, put Kansas ahead 59-30 giving the Jayhawks the second-largest halftime lead...
33.Crean's mother, Marjorie, suffered a stroke while watching the loss to Kansas in New Orleans, but she was treated and released. She died in 2019 at age 80. 34.Crean, just 37 at the time, became one of the hottest names in the coaching circuit, with reports that places like UCLA were interested. He ended up staying at Marquette through 2008. 35.T...
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The 1973-74 Marquette Warriors boasted one of the best defenses in the nation thanks to players like, from left, Bo Ellis, Marcus Washington and Earl Tatum.© Milwaukee Journal Sentinel files...
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