If there have only been nine meetings between two teams and five of them can easily be called to mind with a nickname, then that is probably a pretty good series.
That’s Marquette-Connecticut in men’s basketball.
As I was preparing the preview for Tuesday’s game against the Huskies, I realized that this is the fifth straight school year where there are no undergraduates on Marquette’s campus who got to watch a Marquette-Connecticut game while they were in school. There’s been a whole mess of new Marquette fans created since the last time these two programs met, so it only makes sense to take a trip in the Wayback Machine and remind everyone exactly how electrifying the nine contests in eight seasons were.