Travis Diener was sitting down, quietly listening to a young head coach present his vision for a program he grew up watching.
It was a vision that hit “right on the head” with the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, native. And that head coach? Former Marquette men’s basketball head coach Tom Crean.
“He had this vision that he was going to help bring Marquette back to those days of the ’70s and compete for championships,” Diener said. “As far-fetched as that idea was at the time because Marquette wasn’t on that radar at that point, it was a middle of the road program when he took over.