A Thought About Marquette Men’s Basketball’s Student Attendance

As you’re reading this, it’s Thursday morning, December 11th, 2025. This week is Finals Week at Marquette University, and with Wednesday’s exams in the books, we’re officially past the halfway point. If you’re familiar with the traffic around campus at the end of fall semester, you know that today is the first big day of students packing up and exiting the residence halls until spring semester starts.

It’s this departure from and return to campus that I want to talk about for a moment today.

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Let’s rewind a little bit, back to December 2nd. That was the day that Marquette men’s basketball hosted Valparaiso at Fiserv Forum. This is what the west student section looked like as starting lineups were being introduced before the game. You can see Nigel James’ name in the ribbon board above the seats.

I don’t have a picture of the east student section because my vantage point in Section 119 kind of makes it hard to get the point across, so trust me when I tell you that it basically looked the same.

First Things First: This game happened on the Tuesday night of the last week of classes for fall semester. I do not begrudge a single student who said “hey, I can traipse down to Fiserv for this game OR I can spend those three hours working on [insert schoolwork here] so I don’t have to worry about it later this week or this weekend or next week.” Between this being the first home game since the struggle against Central Michigan and in the wake of the blown double digit leads in the Oklahoma game down in Chicago, I completely understand why roughly two-thirds of the student season ticket holders said “I have better ways to spend my time right this second.”

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And that’s the problem, right?

See, that’s the last time that Marquette is going to play a home game with the residence halls open until the January 10th home game against Villanova. The halls will open at 8am that day before a 1:30pm tipoff against the Wildcats. Marquette…

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Publish date : 2025-12-11 14:30:00

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