Somewhat lost in the excitement of Marquette Madness was the news that Marquette would be playing Northwestern in a closed door scrimmage at Welsh-Ryan Arena in Evanston, Illinois, on Sunday, October 28th. This is one of those “secret” scrimmages that everyone finds out about through sources and the schools aren’t officially allowed to publicize or release stats.
This isn’t quite the obvious quality test for the Golden Eagles that it was at the start of last season. In October 2017, it was a battle of two teams coming off their first NCAA tournament appearances under their respective head coaches.