I’ll start with some sincerity. I’m going to go through an exercise to see where Marquette would be if a few things over the course of the season played out differently. The intent is partially to get you thinking about the full scope of the Marquette basketball season.
I will literally bet the citizenship status of my children that half of you thought about the close losses when you read that paragraph. That’s mainly what I want to address. Other things happened other than the close losses to Villanova and Xavier and we’re going to barrel through an insane combination of those events to see how different things could be, for better or for worse.