Answering your questions about Marquette heading into March Madness

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Marquette men’s basketball team’s reaction to earning No. 7 seed

Here is the Marquette men’s basketball team’s reaction on Selection Sunday after learning it will play New Mexico in the first round of the NCAA tournament

March Madness is upon us.

The seventh-seeded Marquette Golden Eagles will take on 10th-seeded New Mexico in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Friday in Cleveland.

Ahead of the game, the Journal Sentinel asked readers for questions about MU.

Marquette’s inside presence with Ben Gold questioned

In watching MU play 30-plus games, do you feel that the team gets outmuscled a little, some, a lot?

How long will Smart stick with Ben Gold ? No offense and a defensive liability!

Ben Steele: The frontcourt depth was the biggest question about this team heading into the season. When Ben Gold is hitting outside shots, it gives MU a totally different look than recent seasons. He’s not a banger, so he will have trouble with physical big men (like St. John’s center Zuby Ejiofor), but when MU’s offense is rolling like early in the season, the Golden Eagles can overcome that. Caedin Hamilton had a big summer, and it looked like he could provide a thicker body down low, but in retrospect it was probably too much to ask of a guy who was a late-bloomer in high school and is still early in his development. Royce Parham hits the boards hard, but he turned 18 in the summer and just isn’t physically ready to match up with 22- and 23-year-olds.

New Mexico has Donovan Dent … and who else?

Kam Jones and Donovan Dent will get the headlines, and rightfully so, but can you name a player from Marquette and New Mexico that may be the real key to each team winning?

Can the MU guards stay out of foul trouble against a team that drives to the hoop so much?

Ben Steele: I was just watching New Mexico’s game with St. John’s from early in the season, and Lobos big man Nelly Junior Joseph kind of looked like Zuby Ejiofor from the Red Storm. Strong body, attacks the glass. As stated in the first…

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