If you’re like me, and I presume a lot of you are, you are currently cheering for the best ranked Marquette men’s basketball team of your lifetime.
On Monday, the Associated Press released the preseason top 25 poll for men’s college basketball. Marquette turned up at #5 in the rankings, surpassing last year’s final ranking of #6 for the best ranking of any kind since the poll issued on March 6, 1978, when the team was ranked #3 in the country. It is Marquette’s best entry in the preseason poll since that same season when they were #3 in the first poll of the year as well.