Throwback jerseys the amalgamation of tradition and innovation

The sights were decades in the making.

They came with a wave of memories. They signified a remembrance of tradition. They marked a return to a bygone time.

The Marquette men’s basketball players’ first steps out of the tunnel and onto the Al McGuire Court donning exact gold replica jerseys from the 2007 season simultaneously returned every nook and cranny of Fiserv Forum to those days, the ones before it existed. A day when the Dogg Haus resided at 17th and Wells. When McCormick Hall stood tall. When home was the Bradley Center.

Those same sights embodied another stitch in the fabric of a program who boasts a proud history of storied, unique uniforms.

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