Every year, after Marquette announces the entirety of their non-conference men’s basketball schedule, we take a moment to compare it to the schedules of the recent past. You might remember our breakdown on the 2017-18 MU schedule from back in July. It included the following sentence as written by me, a noted anti-sub-300 scheduling crank: “You can make an argument for the 2017-18 non-conference schedule as the best that we’ve seen in nearly a decade.”
So with that in mind, it seemed like a good idea to compare Marquette’s really great non-conference schedule to the rest of the teams in the Big East.