Never let anyone tell you that there’s no value to beating DePaul.
It turns out the value is, at least this week, exactly two spots in the Associated Press college basketball top 25 poll. Last week Marquette men’s basketball was #16, and they beat DePaul in their only game of the week. Now, in Monday’s brand new top 25 rankings? #14 in the country.
Marquette earned 769 points in the poll this week, which is just 17 more than #15 TCU, so it was pretty close there. #13 Iowa State snagged 832 points, so MU was nowhere close to 13th place this week.