It wasn’t the homecoming Marquette volleyball envisioned.
After opening the season with a road sweep over Eastern Illinois, the Golden Eagles dropped three-straight matches at the Al McGuire Center last week, which included a surprising 3-1 defeat to unranked Western Michigan on Sunday.
The skid dropped Marquette (1-3) from No. 24 in the AVCA top 25 poll to the unofficial No. 29 team, receiving just 39 votes. It’s a continuation of what has become somewhat of an issue for the program in the poll in the last two years.
In 2023, the Golden Eagles went into the year as the preseason No.