It’s the official start to the 2019-20 college basketball season for the Marquette students, but an unofficial start for everyone else. The team has already been practicing for a while now, and the event is closed to everyone except for students, so the rest of us all have to just mark our own start to the season however we see fit.
In any case, while the various contests and events and performance by T-Pain is interesting to varying degrees, the most interesting part of Marquette Madness is finding out what recruits are visiting the McGuire Center for the event.