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Get To Know A Marquette Basketball Opponent: Mount St. Mary’s

Name: Mount Saint Mary’s University (formerly known as Mount Saint Mary’s College and Seminary up until 2004)

Location: Emmitsburg, Maryland in the Catocin Mountains.

Did you just say...: Yeah, they have mountains in Maryland.

Where?? About an hour’s drive northwest of Baltimore. To be fair, it’s also only 20 minutes away from Gettysburg, which is in Pennsylvania, of course, and most of that 20 minutes is actually in Pennsylvania.

Founded: 1808

Enrollment: 2,240

Basketball Conference: Northeast Conference (NEC)

Nickname: Mountaineers…they live in the mountains, duh.