How Did The Season Of Ifs Go For Marquette Men’s Basketball?

Shouts to loyal reader and commenter mufan2006. They’re the reason why we are gathered here today, dearly beloved.

Back in September, long before the 2025-26 season started for Marquette men’s basketball, I put together along list of If statements about the Golden Eagles for the upcoming campaign. It was a way of hanging a thesis statement on all of our season preview stuff, namely “There’s a whole bunch of questions about this team that we can’t answer until we see them play some games.”

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In December, with Marquette sitting at 5-5 on the year and staring down the barrel of likely following up a road loss to Wisconsin with a road loss to Purdue, I spent time during Finals Week to circle back to those If statements. The end result?

9 out of the 15 Ifs I raised are outright failures with a couple in there going as still up in the air to a certain extent. I’m not trying to tell you that these are the specific reasons that Marquette is where they are right now…. but when there were that many — and probably more! — questions in September and there’s that many negative answers right now…. yeah, that explains a lot.

In the comments on that December article, mufan2006 noted that it might be interesting to see if the nine failures were still failures when the season was over. It was a terrific idea, and mufan2006 reminded me of it as I asked at the time, so LET’S GOOOOOO!

I’m actually going to go through all 15 of them — because believe it or not, there are positives that have changed sides since December! — and I’ll include both the original If and the reaction in December. Is this going to get long? Almost assuredly, since the December article clocked in at over 2,500 words, including the original If statements in there.

Okay, let’s take a deep breath and dive in.

—If Chase Ross can stay healthy for a whole season, we could see that leap we’ve been expecting to see since his freshman year.

So far so good on the ticky-tack/relatively…

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Publish date : 2026-06-11 14:45:00

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