Over the last week and a half or so, Marquette has released the non-conference schedule for the upcoming men's basketball season. Generally speaking, it seems that head coach Steve Wojciechowski and the athletic department staff in charge of these kinds of things have greatly improved the schedule from last season.
The obvious thing to do is to compare the final KenPom rankings of the teams on the 2016-17 schedule to the last few years of non-conference schedules and see how it stacks up against both last year and the few years before that, too.
Here's the data for the last five seasons of Marquette basketball non-conference schedules.