Just two years ago, men’s and women’s basketball suffered through their worst respective seasons in over two decades. Volleyball was the only spectator sport out of seven to make the NCAA tournament that year. Four of those seven — men’s and women’s basketball, men’s soccer and women’s lacrosse — finished in the bottom half of the BIG EAST.
It seemed inconceivable in the summer of 2015 that Marquette athletics would have the kind of year that it just had. Five of the seven spectator sports made the NCAA tournament. Six Marquette teams out of 14 won either a regular season conference title or a BIG EAST conference title.