When you have the #3 team in the country, the #10 team in the country, and a competent ACC squad coming to town for a weekend event, you have to look at things with a bit of a pragmatic eye. Even when you’re the #25 team in the country, as Marquette was as the Marquette Invitational started.
Thus, as we look back at the three games against #3 BYU, #10 USC, and Syracuse and see that Marquette went 2-1 with a the loss coming against the third best team in the country, then I have to give the whole endeavor a thumbs up.