MILWAUKEE -- It's not quite Duke-North Carolina, Georgetown-Syracuse or Indiana-Kentucky but the in-state rivalry between the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University has quietly developed into one of the nation's best over the last decade.
"This is an incredible rivalry," Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski said earlier this week. "What makes it unique and different from the Duke and North Carolina rivalry is you only get to play one time. Most likely.
"If you lost your first game to Carolina, you always had a chance to get it back a few weeks later. In this rivalry you have to sit on it for a year, which is not necessarily nice.