Photo by Helen Dudley
Jim Dudley doesn’t visit Milwaukee as much as he’d like, which is odd for a guy that helped deliver the city’s most prominent basketball university its only national championship.
When he is able to make it up from south Florida to a Marquette basketball game, even if it’s only once every few years, Dudley feels like he’s back at home.
“It’s exciting,” Dudley said. “It’s just so much bigger and more action.”
The hustle and bustle of the BMO Harris Bradley Center is a far cry from Dudley’s days on the 1976-’77 Marquette squad that won the national championship in the MECCA, which is now UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena.