When was marquette in the final four

Boeheim had a flawed basketball team and one that was easy to write off. That day, Boeheim told The Post-Standard :. On Saturday, the overlooked Orange played a heckuva lot be tter and continued their three-week redemption tour with a win over Marquette to book Boeheim's first trip to the Final Four since How the Orange bounced back is a testament to how Boeheim builds his program and a zone defense that has aged like fine wine.

Boeheim recruits to his defense—length and quickness are a plus—and this team bought in because it had no other choice when scoring became a chore. I'll be honest. I kept picking against the Orange because the team lacks a big man who can score. All season, Syracuse has gone through cold spells because Boeheim has had to rely too much on his perimeter players.

But the Orange are headed to Atlanta not because the offense suddenly clicked these last two weeks. After scoring 81 against overmatched Montana in the opening round, the Orange averaged Syracuse shot just 38 percent against Marquette.

The Golden Eagles became the fourth straight team unable to figure out the zone, and this is a team that had cracked the safe during the regular season in a win. Marquette made only 5-of threes that day, but big man Devante Gardner found a home in the center of the zone and scored 26 points on 7-of-7 shooting. Marquette's game plan on Saturday was to once again get the ball into the heart of the zone.

Save for two straight possessions late in the first half when Gardner buried a foot jumper and then found Chris Otule f or a layup, Syracuse was too alert and too active to let it happen again.

Although it no longer funds a Football program, the school has a history in the sport, including an appearance in the first-ever Cotton Bowl game. The school is well-known for the success of its men's Basketball team. Maurice "Bo" Ellis was a member of each of those teams, and remains the only Marquette player to appear in two Final Fours.

The program has experienced success in recent years under Mitchell's direction, including a run to the championship game of the WNIT , where the women finished as runners-up in , and won the championship in Marquette women's basketball has qualified for the NCAA tournament seven times since Basketball Wiki Explore. Main Page All Pages Community. Top Content.

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