History of the Former Dayton-Marquette Rivalry

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History of the Former Dayton-Marquette Rivalry

1. Introduction
2. Early History: 1637 to 1881
3. From Tombstone to Nagasaki: 1882-1945
4. Post-War: 1946-1969
5. The 1970’s: Al McGuire Takes Control
6. The 1980’s to Present: Conference Affiliations and the Resumption of the Rivalry
7. More History
8. Marquette and UD Are Remarkably Similar Universities
9. Fandom
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1. Introduction

My two intellectual passions are college basketball and history (American and European), and I have learned a lot about both over the past 60 years. In this post, I will combine both, and you will learn why Marquette has long been my favorite Big East school and basketball program. But first, I will turn back the pages of history to June 1, 1637 to begin my story.
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2. Early History: 1637 to 1881

June 1, 1637 - Jacques Marquette is born in Laon in the Kingdom of France.


..... Father Jacques Marquette ......

1668 - Father Jacques Marquette establishes Michigan's first European settlement in Sault Ste. Marie.

1673 - Father Marquette joins the expedition of Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer. They depart from St. Ignace with two canoes and five voyageurs of French-Indian ancestry, sail to Green Bay and up the Fox River.

1796 – the settlement of Dayton is established on the Great Miami River.

1803 - Ohio becomes the 17th state admitted to the Union on March 1, 1803.

1805 - the village of Dayton is incorporated on February 12, 1805.

1805 - John Henni is born on June 15, 1805 in the village of Misanenga, in the municipality of Obersaxen, in the canton of Graubünden, in Switzerland.

1818 - the settlement of Milwaukee is established on the Menomonee River by the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau.

19th Century German Immigration - The largest flow of German immigration to America occurred between 1820 and World War I, during which time nearly six million Germans immigrated to the United States. From 1840 to 1880, they were the largest group of immigrants. The Midwestern cities of Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Dayton, St. Louis, and Chicago are favored destinations of German immigrants. By 1900, the populations of the cities of Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati were all more than 40% German American.

1829 - John Henni is ordained to the priesthood on February 2, 1829. He is assigned to the spiritual care of the German Catholics of Cincinnati, and served as professor of philosophy at The Athenaeum in the same city (which was renamed ‘St. Xavier College’ in 1840).

1841 - Dayton is chartered as a city.

1843 – John Henni is appointed the first Bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Milwaukee in Wisconsin by Pope Gregory XVI on November 28, 1843.

1846 - Solomon Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the City of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German immigrants arrived during the late 1840s, after the German revolutions.

1848 – On May 29, 1848 Wisconsin becomes the 30th state admitted to the Union.

1850 - St. Mary’s Institute is founded by the Society of Mary (i.e. the Marianists - who later changed the school’s name to the University of Dayton).

1871 -The Boston Braves professional baseball team is founded.

1871 -The unification of German states into a German Empire with tight political and administrative integration was officially proclaimed on 18 January 1871, in the Palace of Versailles in France.

1875 - Pope Pius IX created the Roman Catholic Province of Milwaukee on February 12, 1875 because of Bishop John Henni’s work in expanding the Catholic presence in Wisconsin (particularly the German-speaking Catholic population).

1876 – In the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Ohio native General George Armstrong Custer makes his last stand in Montana on June 25, 1876.



1881 - Bishop John Henni founds Marquette College on August 28, 1881. The highest priority of the newly established college was to provide an affordable Catholic education to the area's emerging German immigrant population.

1881 – Marquette College opens for business on September 5, 1881.

1881 – Marquette’s founder Bishop John Henni dies two days later - on September 7, 1881 at the age of 76.

1881 – The infamous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place on October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
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3. From Tombstone to Nagasaki: 1882-1945

1891 – The sport of basketball is invented in December, 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith as a less injury-prone sport than football. Naismith was a 31-year old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters.

1895 – The first recorded basketball game between two college teams was organized. The University of Minnesota A&M faced Hamline University under 9-on-9 rules, winning the game 9-3.

1896 - The first collegiate 5-on-5 game was played between Iowa and the University of Chicago, with Chicago winning 15-12.


.................................. Panorama map of Milwaukee, with a view of the City Hall tower, c. 1898 ...................................

1903 - The St. Mary’s Institute "Saints" (later becoming the Dayton Flyers) play their first intercollegiate basketball game.

1903 - Dayton’s Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first powered flights at Kitty Hawk, N.C. on December 17, 1903.

1905 – The First Russian Revolution against Tsar Nicholas II begins on 22 January 1905.

1907 - Marquette College officially becomes a University in 1907, after it became affiliated with a local medical school and moved to its present location.


1907 - Johnston Hall was the first building erected on the new Marquette University campus grounds.

1909 - Marquette University became the first coed Catholic university in the world, when it admitted its first female students in 1909. Many other Catholic institutions began adopting similar approaches in their enrollments during the 1910s and 1920s.

1917 – Marquette University plays their first basketball game at Whitewater Normal School on January 13, 1917. Marquette won 35-26.

==> 100 Years of Marquette Basketball: Full of Golden Moments - Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - December 27, 2017

Over the 100 years since its inauguration on that frosty January day, the Marquette men’s basketball program has ascended to national prominence, helped create incalculable growth for the university and became one of the city's top attractions. In its century of existence, Marquette has had hundreds of players filter through its basketball team, resulting in 57 NBA draft picks, 31 NCAA Tournament appearances, 15 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) trips, including the 1970 championship, three Final Fours and one NCAA national championship in 1977.

==> Marquette Golden Eagles Men's Basketball - Wikipedia ==> Marquette Golden Eagles Men’s Basketball 2019-20 Record Book – Marquette University

1917 – The Second Russian Revolution against Tsar Nicholas II begins on March 8, 1917. Nicholas II abdicates is executed along with his family.

1917 – The Third Russian Revolution begins on November 7, 1917 when a Bolshevik-led armed insurrection by workers and soldiers in Petrograd (a.k.a St. Petersburg, Leningrad) that successfully overthrew the Provisional Government, transferring all its authority to the Soviets.

1918 – German Kaiser Wilhelm II - the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia - abdicates on November 9, 1918 shortly before Germany's defeat in World War I.

1919 – The Treaty of Versailles (formally ending World War I) is signed on June 28, 1919 and became effective on January 10, 1920.

1919 – The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919 by former high-school football rivals Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. Earl Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company, a meat packing company. He was given $500 ($7,400 today) for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor. The Green Bay Packers have played in their original city longer than any other team in the NFL.

1919 – On October 28, 1919 Congress passed the National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act.

1920 – On January 16, 1920 Prohibition begins in the United States. In the 1920s, Chicago gangster activity came north to Milwaukee during the Prohibition era. Al Capone, noted Chicago mobster, owned a home in the Milwaukee suburb Brookfield, where moonshine was made. The house still stands on a street named after Capone.

1920 - St. Mary’s Institute changes its name to the 'University of Dayton'.

1923 - The University of Dayton adopts ‘Dayton Flyers’ as the nickname for its athletic teams.

October 28, 1929 - The Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash.

1930’s - Prohibition lost support during the Great Depression. The so-called "wets" – people in favor of repeal – argued that legal sales would reduce violent gang crime, increase employment and raise tax revenues.

1933 - Repeal of Prohibition was accomplished with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment on December 5, 1933. Under its terms, states were allowed to set their own laws for the control of alcohol. ==> The History of Beer Brewing in Milwaukee

Nazi Germany 1933-34

Adolph Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar Republic, Paul von Hindenburg, on 30 January 1933. The NSDAP then began to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate its power. Hindenburg died on 2 August 1934 and Hitler became dictator of Germany by merging the offices and powers of the Chancellery and Presidency. A national referendum held 19 August 1934 confirmed Hitler as sole Führer of Germany.

May 8, 1945 - Victory in Europe Day is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, May 8, 1945 marking the end of World War II in Europe.

August 15, 1945 - World War II ends with the surrender of Japan.
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4. Post-War: 1946-1969

January, 1946 - Three of my uncles on my mother’s side returned to the U.S. after serving in Europe for four years. In France, they became good friends with some of their fellow infantrymen who hailed from Milwaukee. On the voyage back to New York, my uncles were willingly talked into settling in Milwaukee and looking for work at the breweries, which were expected to grow in the post-war boom, and that’s exactly what they did. All three of my uncles soon married Milwaukee girls, bought houses, had lots of kids, and eventually sent most of my cousins to Marquette and the big school in Madison. Every summer, the Milwaukee clan (as we in Dayton called them) would trek to Dayton for a big family reunion and a trip to Crosley field to watch a Reds vs. Braves game. With big extended Catholic families in both Dayton and Milwaukee, we could fill a couple of busses by the early 1960’s. The annual topics for discussion were politics, beer, baseball, football, and a serious disappointment that Marquette and UD had never played a college basketball game against each other.

February, 1950 – Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy suddenly rose from obscurity to national fame when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the State Department. In succeeding years after his 1950 speech, McCarthy made additional accusations of Communist infiltration into the State Department, the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army. McCarthy attended Marquette University from 1930 to 1935, studying electrical engineering for two years, then law, and receiving an LL.B. degree in 1935 from Marquette University Law School.

March 13,1953 – The Milwaukee Braves announced that the team was moving from Boston to Milwaukee, where the Braves had their top farm club, the Brewers.

April 13, 1954 – Hank Aaron made his debut for the Milwaukee Braves.

October 10, 1957 – The underdog Milwaukee Braves won Game 7 of the 1957 World Series, defeating the defending champion New York Yankees 5-0 at Yankee Stadium in front of a crowd of 61,000 in one of the greatest World Series ever.

December, 1960 - Marquette's Golden Avalanche football team was disbanded and basketball became the leading spectator sport at the university.

1965 - The Milwaukee Braves announced their intention to move to Atlanta for the 1965 season. However, an injunction filed in Wisconsin kept the Braves in Milwaukee for one final year. In 1966, the Braves completed the move to Atlanta.

1966 – In the summer of 1966, the University of Dayton announced the Flyers would be playing Marquette in basketball in December. Halleluiah!

Dayton Flyers 2019-20 Media Guide – Page 137 – University of Dayton – November 2019 (Marquette leads all-time series 21-14)

December 28, 1966 - UD Fieldhouse • Dayton 95, Marquette 76 • Attendance: 5,882 • Series Record: Dayton 1-0

January 15, 1967 - The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in Superbowl I in Los Angeles.

March 25, 1967 – The Dayton Flyers lose the National Championship game to UCLA (30-0) in the 1967 NCAA Tournament at Freedom Hall, Louisville. Attendance: 18,892.

January 6, 1968 - MECCA Arena • Marquette 83, Dayton 68 • Attendance: 11,138 • Series Record: Dayton 1-1

March 23, 1968 – The Dayton Flyers beat Kansas 61-48 in the 1968 National Invitational Tournament championship game at Madison Square Garden. Attendance: 19,008

April, 1969 - The Seattle Pilots make their debut, originating as an expansion team in the American League West Division before being acquired in bankruptcy court by Bud Selig, who then moved the team to Milwaukee for the 1970 season, renaming the franchise as the Brewers.

July 20, 1969 – Local astronaut hero Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon, and the next day they spent two and a half hours outside the spacecraft.

August 15-18, 1969 – The Woodstock music festival took place in Bethel, NY, and became widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history as well as a defining event for the counterculture generation.

DID YOU KNOW ? – University of Dayton

UD won more games than any other school in both the 1950’s and 1960’s.

UD won 435 games between 1950 and 1969 and ranks among the top teams of the 1950’s and 1960’s in Division I history.

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5. The 1970’s: Al McGuire Takes Control

My favorite college basketball coaches are unsurprisingly Tom Blackburn, Don Donoher, and Anthony Grant.

But my all-time favorite who never coached a game for the Dayton Flyers is undoubtedly Al McGuire.

The ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings (1937-2009)

TOP 40 TEAMS OF THE 1970’s

1. UCLA
2. North Carolina
3. Marquette
4. Kentucky
5. Indiana
6. NC State
7. Maryland
8. Notre Dame
9. Louisville
10. Purdue
11. Michigan
12. Southern California
13. South Carolina
14. Duke
15. Long Beach State
16. Tennessee
17. Minnesota
18. Alabama
19. Florida State
20. Pennsylvania
21. San Francisco
22. Houston
23. St. John’s
24. Kansas State
25. Kansas
26. Syracuse
27. Washington
28. Cincinnati
29. Oregon State
30. Wake Forest
31. Providence
32. Michigan State
33. Virginia
34. Utah
35. Arizona State
36. Missouri
37. New Mexico
38. Oregon
39. Iowa
40. UNLV

History of the NIT and the NCAA Tournament – Post #9

Turning Down Invitations to the NCAA Tournament

National Invitation Tournament - Wikipedia

Between 1939 and 1970 teams could compete in either tournament.

In 1945, The New York Times indicated that many teams could get bids to enter either tournament, which was not uncommon in that day. In any case, since the mid-1950s, the NCAA tournament has been popularly regarded by most individuals as the major post season tourney, with conference champions and the majority of the top-ranked teams participating in it.

Nevertheless, as late as 1970, Coach Al McGuire of Marquette, the 8th-ranked team in the final AP poll of the season, spurned an NCAA at-large invitation because the Warriors were going to be placed in the NCAA Midwest Regional (Fort Worth, Texas) instead of closer to home in the Mideast Regional (in Dayton, Ohio).

The team played in the 1970 NIT instead, which it won. This led the NCAA to decree in 1971 that any school to which it offered a bid must accept it or be prohibited from participating in postseason competition, reducing the pool of teams that could accept an NIT invitation.

Marquette Golden Eagles Men’s Basketball - Wikipedia

Marquette is the last university to spurn an NCAA invite and did so due to a low seeding in the 1970 NCAA Tournament and having to travel. They were ranked 8th in the country at the time and were one of the favorites to win the NCAA championship. They were invited to the 1970 NIT which they won. The NCAA later instituted a rule which forbid an NCAA Division I level men's basketball team from spurning an NCAA bid for an NIT bid. An antitrust case by the NIT ensued over this issue, and the NCAA settled out of court.

1970 National Invitational Tournament - Wikipedia

The 1970 National Invitation Tournament was unique in that coach Al McGuire of Marquette University, unhappy with his team's placement, turned down a bid to the NCAA tournament and elected to play in the NIT instead. His Marquette Warriors went on to claim the NIT Championship.

Marquette Golden Eagles Men's Basketball

1964–65 • Al McGuire • 8–18
1965–66 • Al McGuire • 14–12
1966–67 • Al McGuire • 21–9 • NIT Runner-up
1967–68 • Al McGuire • 23–6 • NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1968–69 • Al McGuire • 24–5 • NCAA Elite Eight
1969–70 • Al McGuire • 26–3 • NIT Champions ==> 1970 National Invitation Tournament
1970–71 • Al McGuire • 28–1 • NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1971–72 • Al McGuire • 25–4 • NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1972–73 • Al McGuire • 25–4 • NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1973–74 • Al McGuire • 26–5 • NCAA Runner-up ==> 1974 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament
1974–75 • Al McGuire • 23–4 • NCAA Round of 32
1975–76 • Al McGuire • 27–2 • NCAA Elite Eight
1976–77 • Al McGuire • 25–7 • NCAA Champions ==> 1977 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament

Al McGuire at Marquette: 295–80 (.787)

I loved Al McGuire. Not only was he the greatest coach in the history of Marquette basketball, but he followed in the footsteps of Tom Blackburn by thumbing his nose at the NCAA Tournament – quite the opposite of the Jesuit San Francisco Dons, who thumbed their nose at the NIT in 1955 and 1956, which was the direct cause of the diminution of the NIT.

History of the NIT and the NCAA Tournament – Post #9

Flyers Revisiting their Roots in NIT – Dayton Daily News - March 28, 2010

A Fervor Unmatched

Started in 1938, the NIT is a year older than the NCAA Tournament and for a couple of decades — with a better TV contract and a marquee setting — it was more prestigious.

Coach Tom Blackburn was from New York and once he took over at UD, he made the tournament his ultimate goal. And he became more of an NIT man after his first — and only — NCAA Tournament experience.

Back in the early days, a team could play in both tournaments and that’s what UD did in 1952. After finishing as runners-up in the 1952 NIT, the Flyers headed to the 1952 NCAA Tournament and a match-up with Illinois in Chicago. “The NCAA had a lot of background with the Big Ten,” former coach Don Donoher said. “And the way Blackburn told the story, at the banquet the night before the game, one of the (NCAA) officials took the microphone and wished Illinois luck.”

Not that the Illini needed it. Dayton was whistled for 41 personal fouls, still second all-time for an NCAA Tournament game. Five Flyers fouled out, and while Illinois made 32 of 47 free throws, Dayton — which lost by 19 — made 13 of 18.

Donoher said that left “a sour taste” with Blackburn, who focused on the NIT and sent 10 teams to New York in a 12-year span.

In the process, the city of Dayton fell in love with the tournament. “The NIT was a big deal to everyone back then.”

And it became even more so in Dayton when the Flyers won the tournament in 1962. Bill Chmielewski, the Flyers sophomore big man, was named the MVP and with UD fans mobbing him on the court, he turned his award upside down and wore it on his head like a helmet. And the photograph of that played in newspapers across the country.

“When we got back to Dayton, people packed the airport,” Chmielewski said. “Coming down the expressway, people were waving signs and blowing their car horns. The Fieldhouse was packed, too. That’s when I realized what University of Dayton sports meant to this town.”

I couldn’t find a reference for the number of NCAA Tournament invitations that Tom Blackburn turned down between 1952 and 1962 in favor of the NIT, but it was a good few, and could be as many as eight. Coach Blackburn loved The Garden. Related HLOH post: The Dayton Flyers at Madison Square Garden.

Marquette and Dayton did not play each other during the 1970’s, but the series resumed in the 1980’s.
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6. The 1980’s to Present: Conference Affiliations and the Resumption of the Rivalry

The ESPN/Sagarin All-Time Rankings (1937-2009) show that neither Marquette nor Dayton Appeared in the TOP 40 TEAMS OF THE 1980s nor TOP 40 TEAMS OF THE 1990s, but Marquette re-emerged in the first decade of this century:

The 1980's:
2. Georgetown
15. DePaul
18. St. John’s
23. Villanova

The 1990's:
20. Georgetown
31. Villanova
32. St. John’s
38. Xavier
39. Providence

2000-2009:
24. Xavier
25.. Villanova
29. Georgetown
32. Marquette
39. Butler

Marquette Golden Eagles Men's Basketball

Independent: 1916-1989
Midwestern Collegiate Conference: 1989–1991
Great Midwest Conference: 1991–1995
Conference USA: 1995–2005
Big East Conference: 2005–present

Dayton Flyers Men's Basketball

Independent: 1903-1988
Midwestern Collegiate Conference: 1988–1993
Great Midwest Conference: 1993–1995
Atlantic 10 Conference: 1995–present

After each team won their home games in the two-game series in the 1966-67 and 1967-68 seasons (as Catholic Independents), Dayton and Marquette did not play each other again until 1980. UD plummeted in the college basketball world during the 1990’s:

History of the Former Dayton-Xavier Rivalry – Post #1

Following the conclusion of the 1988-89 season, Dayton fired legendary coach Don Donoher. It was the most controversial and divisive decision in the history of UD athletics. During his tenure at Dayton, Donoher guided the Flyers to the NCAA tournament eight times, reaching the Sweet Sixteen five times, the Elite Eight twice, and the national final once. Additionally, Dayton played in seven NIT post-season tournaments under Donoher, winning the championship in 1968. Donoher is Dayton's all-time winningest coach with a 437-275 record (.614), including a 20-16 post season record (.556).

Donoher-coached teams were noted for their discipline, tenacity, and sound fundamentals, frequently besting teams with greater athleticism. Don Donoher was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.

In the spring of 1989, the University of Dayton made one of the most disastrous coach-hiring decisions in the history of college basketball when they hired Jim O'Brien, who inherited an NCAA Tournament-bound team, and four years later, led the Flyers to an abysmal 4-26 record with the players he recruited and trained – the all-time low for the Dayton Flyers’ basketball program.

Dayton Flyers 2019-20 Media Guide – Page 137 – University of Dayton – November 2019 (Marquette leads all-time series 21-14)

Feb 16, 1980 MECCA Arena • Marquette 73, Dayton 64 • Attendance: 10,938 • Series Record: Dayton 1-2
Jan 24, 1981 UD Arena • Dayton 85, Marquette 73 • Attendance: 13,108 • Series Record: Dayton 2-2
Feb 20, 1982 MECCA Arena • Marquette 72, Dayton 58 • Attendance: 11,052 • Series Record: Dayton 2-3
Feb 23, 1983 UD Arena • Dayton 65, Marquette 63 • Attendance: 10,570 • Series Record: Dayton 3-3
Jan 21, 1984 MECCA Arena ot • Marquette 66, Dayton 64 • Attendance: 11,052 • Series Record: Dayton 3-4
Feb 16, 1985 MECCA Arena • Marquette 61, Dayton 55 • Attendance: 11,052 • Series Record: Dayton 3-5
Feb 23, 1985 UD Arena • Dayton 72, Marquette 59 • Attendance: 13,455 • Series Record: Dayton 4-5
Jan 18, 1986 MECCA Arena • Marquette 70, Dayton 60 • Attendance: 11,052 • Series Record: Dayton 4-6
Feb 22, 1986 UD Arena • Marquette 82, Dayton 79 • Attendance: 13,502 • Series Record: Dayton 4-7
Jan 17, 1987 MECCA Arena • Marquette 64, Dayton 57 • Attendance: 11,052 • Series Record: Dayton 4-8
Feb 21, 1987 UD Arena • Dayton 59, Marquette 57 • Attendance: 12,891 • Series Record: Dayton 5-8
Jan 23, 1988 UD Arena • Dayton 67, Marquette 62 • Attendance: 13,452 • Series Record: Dayton 6-8
Feb 13, 1988 MECCA Arena • Marquette 79, Dayton 56 • Attendance: 11,052 • Series Record: Dayton 6-9
Jan 14, 1989 MECCA Arena • Marquette 90, Dayton 86 • Attendance: 11,107 • Series Record: Dayton 6-10
Mar 2, 1989 UD Arena • Marquette 76, Dayton 74 • Attendance: 11,171 • Series Record: Dayton 6-11
Jan 11, 1990 UD Arena • Marquette 95, Dayton 84 • Attendance: 11,261 • Series Record: Dayton 6-12
Feb 10, 1990 Bradley Center • Dayton 79, Marquette 77 • Attendance: 14,988 • Series Record: Dayton 7-12
Jan 5, 1991 UD Arena • Dayton 103, Marquette 81 • Attendance: 12,747 • Series Record: Dayton 8-12
Feb 9, 1991 Bradley Center • Marquette 67, Dayton 65 • Attendance: 14,708 • Series Record: Dayton 8-13
Jan 8, 1992 UD Arena • Dayton 60, Marquette 57 • Attendance: 12,149 • Series Record: Dayton 9-13
Jan 6, 1993 Bradley Center • Marquette 82, Dayton 44 • Attendance: 12,941 • Series Record: Dayton 9-14
Feb 20, 1994 Bradley Center • Marquette 84, Dayton 62 • Attendance: 13,642 • Series Record: Dayton 9-15
Feb 23, 1994 UD Arena • Marquette 63, Dayton 58 • Attendance: 10,658 • Series Record: Dayton 9-16
Jan 20, 1995 UD Arena • Marquette 70, Dayton 58 • Attendance: 10,868 • Series Record: Dayton 9-17
Feb 23, 1995 Bradley Center • Marquette 70, Dayton 59 • Attendance: 13,006 • Series Record: Dayton 9-18
Dec 27, 1996 UD Arena • Marquette 65, Dayton 61 • Attendance: 11,482 • Series Record: Dayton 9-19
Dec 21, 1997 Bradley Center • Marquette 86, Dayton 68 • Attendance: 11,082 • Series Record: Dayton 9-20
Nov 28, 1998 UD Arena • Dayton 81, Marquette 49 • Attendance: 10,745 • Series Record: Dayton 10-20
Dec 7, 1999 MECCA Arena • Dayton 63, Marquette 60 • Attendance: 8,163 • Series Record: Dayton 11-20
Dec 30, 2000 UD Arena • Dayton 61, Marquette 60 • Attendance: 13,268 • Series Record: Dayton 12-20
Dec 5, 2001 Bradley Center • Marquette 73, Dayton 51 • Attendance: 10,002 • Series Record: Dayton 12-21
Jan 4, 2003 UD Arena ot • Dayton 92, Marquette 85 • Attendance: 12,307 • Series Record: Dayton 13-21
Nov 29, 2008 Sears Centre CIC • Dayton 89, Marquette 75 • Attendance: 4,780 • Series Record: Dayton 14-21

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7. More History

Ohio . . . Dayton . . . University of Dayton . . . Dayton Flyers Men's Basketball

Wisconsin . . . Milwaukee . . . Marquette University . . . Marquette Golden Eagles Men's Basketball

100 Years of Marquette Basketball: Full of Golden Moments - Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - December 27, 2017

Marquette Golden Eagles 2019 Men's Basketball Record Book – Marquette University – November 2019

Milwaukee Timeline 1846-1879 - Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear

Milwaukee Timeline 1880-1911 - Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear

Milwaukee Timeline 1912-1945 - Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear

Milwaukee Timeline 1946-1979 - Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear

Milwaukee Timeline 1980-2013 - Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear

The History of Beer Brewing in Milwaukee

History of Sports in Milwaukee

History of the Green Bay Packers

History of Professional Baseball in Milwaukee
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8. Marquette and UD Are Remarkably Similar Universities

ATTENDANCE 2019-20 – Post #1

17,314 • Creighton
15,145 • Marquette
13,363 • Dayton
11,299 • Villanova
10,328 • Seton Hall
10,311 • Xavier
10,130 • BIG EAST AVERAGE HOME ATTENDANCE
10,064 • Providence

8,617 • Butler
7,931 • Georgetown
6,236 • St. John's
5,187 • DePaul

AD Revenues ('18-'19) – Post #3

Survey Year • Institution Name • Revenues Men's Team

2018 • Marquette University • $21,856,683

2018 • University of Dayton • $16,281,364
2018 • Villanova University • $14,428,932
2018 • Xavier University • $13,916,975
2018 • Georgetown University • $13,573,946
2018 • Providence College • $11,117,186
2018 • St. John's University • $10,028,677

2018 • Creighton University • $8,590,055
2018 • Butler University • $8,228,482
2018 • Seton Hall University • $7,506,127
2018 • DePaul University • $6,793,520

How Much Is Your College-Basketball Team Worth? - Andrew Beaton, The Wall Street Journal - April 8, 2019

RANK SCHOOL ... VALUATION ... 1-YR VALUE CHANGE

18. University of Dayton .... $100,010,000 ... 18.40%
26. Marquette University ..... $72,400,000 .... 4.50%
28. Villanova University ....... $71,080,000 ... 64.90%
38. Xavier University .......... $61,870,000 ..... 3.30%
50. Georgetown University ... $50,270,000 ... -13.90%

The College Rankings and Methodology Thread – Post #2

Colleges Sorted by Niche Rankings with breaks at Overall Niche Grade:

24. Georgetown University • Overall Niche Grade: A+ • Acceptance Rate: 16% • Net Price: $27,420 • SAT Range: 1350-1520 (#2 Catholic College)
81. Villanova University • Overall Niche Grade: A+ • Acceptance Rate: 36% • Net Price: $35,491 • SAT Range: 1250-1440 (#4 Catholic College)

150. University of Dayton • Overall Niche Grade: A • Acceptance Rate: 72% • Net Price: $35,077 • SAT Range: 1100-1310 (#10 Catholic College)

180. Creighton University • Overall Niche Grade: A- • Acceptance Rate: 72% • Net Price: $31,481 • SAT Range: 1070-1290 (#12 Catholic College)
190. Butler University • Overall Niche Grade: A- • Acceptance Rate: 65% • Net Price: $38,051 • SAT Range: 1150-1320
206. Marquette University • Overall Niche Grade: A- • Acceptance Rate: 89% • Net Price: $32,377 • SAT Range: 1130-1310 (#17 Catholic College)
235. Providence College • Overall Niche Grade: A- • Acceptance Rate: 52% • Net Price: $36,099 • SAT Range: 1160-1330 (#21 Catholic College)
238. DePaul University • Overall Niche Grade: A- • Acceptance Rate: 72% • Net Price: $32,927 • SAT Range: 1050-1260 (#22 Catholic College)
280. Seton Hall University • Overall Niche Grade: A- • Acceptance Rate: 73% • Net Price: $28,700 • SAT Range: 1140-1280 (#28 Catholic College)

392. Xavier University • Overall Niche Grade: B+ • Acceptance Rate: 74% • Net Price: $30,190 • SAT Range: 1060-1240 (#45 Catholic College)

639. St. John's University • Overall Niche Grade: B • Acceptance Rate: 68% • Net Price: $25,981 • SAT Range: 1060-1250 (#77 Catholic College)

Table 6(c): Schools of Interest - Sorted in Order of Enrolment

Enrolment • Institution • Founded • Type

23,799 • DePaul University • 1898 • Catholic (Vincentian)
20,448 • St. John's University • 1870 • Catholic (Vincentian)
17,858 • Georgetown University • 1789 • Catholic (Jesuit)

11,745 • Marquette University • 1881 • Catholic (Jesuit)
10,920 • University of Dayton • 1850 • Catholic (Marianist)
10,735 • Villanova University • 1842 • Catholic (Augustinian)

9,627 • Seton Hall University • 1856 • Catholic (Diocesan)
8,236 • Creighton University • 1878 • Catholic (Jesuit)
6,538 • Xavier University • 1831 • Catholic (Jesuit)
4,848 • Butler University • 1855 • Private (Christian)
4,533 • Providence College • 1917 • Catholic (Dominican)

The College Rankings and Methodology Thread – Post #9

Selected Schools - Sorted in Order of Endowment*

Endowment • Institution • Founded • Type • Enrolment

$1.82 billion • Georgetown University • 1789 • Catholic (Jesuit) • 17,858

$0.767 billion • Villanova University • 1842 • Catholic (Augustinian) • 10,735
$0.749 billion • St. John's University • 1870 • Catholic (Vincentian) • 20,448
$0.698 billion • Marquette University • 1881 • Catholic (Jesuit) • 11,745
$0.697 billion • DePaul University • 1898 • Catholic (Vincentian) • 23,799
$0.604 billion • University of Dayton • 1850 • Catholic (Marianist) • 10,920
$0.587 billion • Creighton University • 1878 • Catholic (Jesuit) • 8,236

$0.265 billion • Seton Hall University • 1856 • Catholic (Diocesan) • 9,627
$0.234 billion • Providence College • 1917 • Catholic (Dominican) • 4,533
$0.214 billion • Butler University • 1855 • Private (Christian) • 4,848

$0.169 billion • Xavier University • 1831 • Catholic (Jesuit) • 6,538

* The endowment amounts shown above were copied from each school’s Wikipedia webpage in April 2020, and are higher than the endowment amounts shown on Wikipedia’s Big East Conference webpage, which have not been updated recently. The enrolments have not been updated, and are still as shown on Wikipedia’s Big East Conference webpage.

List of teams with the most victories in NCAA Division I men's college basketball

This is a list of the Top 50 NCAA Division I Men's basketball teams ranked by the number of wins through the end of the last completed season, 2018–19.

Rank • College • First Season • No. of Seasons • Wins • Losses]

9. St. John's • 1908 • 112 • 1,854 • 1,029
21. Villanova • 1921 • 99 • 1,775 • 934
33. Georgetown • 1907 113 • 1,672 • 1,053
42. Dayton • 1904 • 116 • 1,645 • 1,118
46. Marquette • 1917 • 103 • 1,634 • 1,006

W-L Records for the 2019-20 Season:

Rank at Beginning of 2019-2020 Season • College • 2019-20 W-L

(9.) St. John's • 17-15
(21.) Villanova • 24-7
(33.) Georgetown • 15-17
(42.) Dayton • 29-2
(46.) Marquette • 18-12

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9. Fandom

VE Day: UK marking 75th anniversary of end of WW2 in Europe – BBC Wold News – May 8, 2020

'I feel very honored:' Special car parade salutes World War II veterans, from a safe distance, on V-E Day - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - May 8, 2020

My three uncles who served in Europe for four year and then settled in Milwaukee in 1946 have long passed away, but many their children (my first cousins) and my uncles’ grandchildren (who are now adults) are proud Marquette alumni, and my Milwaukee clan is still thriving. As I reminisce about family trips to Milwaukee in the 1950’s and 1960’s to visit them, I’ll rank the Big East Schools that I root for, and my reasons for said fandom.



1. Marquette (By a mile – no other school comes anywhere close.)

2. DePaul (I was a big Ray Meyers fan, and UD had a great rivalry with DePaul back when the Blue Demons had great basketball teams.)

3T. Georgetown and Villanova (I have great respect for them as outstanding examples of Catholic universities with outstanding academic reputations and NCAA champion-calibre basketball teams.)

5T. Providence, St. John’s, and Seton Hall (I’m neutral about them, but that’s better than disliking them.)

8. Creighton (Catholic, good academics, good basketball teams, and great attendance, but Nebraska is no place for a Big East team.)

9. Xavier (For over a century, UD’s faculty, students, and alumni have justifiably looked down on Xavier as an inferior institution. It is not my place to challenge such a time-honored tradition. But at least Xavier is a Catholic school.)

10. Butler (I was a big fan of Brad Stevens, and there is absolutely nothing to dislike about Butler. However, I’m old-school, and as a matter of principle, I will always root for a Catholic school to beat a non-Catholic school, even though I feel nauseous every time that I root for Xavier to beat Butler.)

11. UConn (I have an extremely low opinion of UConn for reasons too numerous to list. As a matter of principle, I will always root for a private school to beat a public school.)

I will conclude this lengthy post by paying my respects to my three late uncles who served their country well during World War II and enjoyed good lives in Milwaukee, and to express my hope that UD plays Marquette again before I make my last post on the Holy Land of Hoops.

[billyjack]

This was a fun read. Thanks FFlyer