March Madness is a strange beast. For about 10 weeks you’ve grown accustomed to seeing the same group of teams that roll through Milwaukee every year. Even Marquette fans who know pretty much nothing about college basketball outside of the home team still probably remember that Villanova is very good and DePaul is not. You might even recognize a bunch of players from last year.
Then March comes and suddenly, your first-round opponent might as well be from Neptune. South Carolina? The last time Marquette played them was over a decade ago when Steve Novak was still in school.