Walk around Marquette’s campus and you won’t have trouble finding a student from the Midwest. Only 18 percent of the student body originates from outside the region, with 69 percent hailing from Illinois or Wisconsin.
The only places you might have a little trouble finding a student from those places is inside the Al McGuire Center or down at Valley Fields, the homes of Marquette’s student-athletes. Midwesterners make up only 62 percent of that population.
With competing athletic programs like Wisconsin, Minnesota, Northwestern and Notre Dame in the region, it’s up to Marquette’s head and assistant coaches to attract high school athletes to their respective teams.