The 2026 Marquette Men’s Soccer Season Preview: Three Questions

#1 — Hey, this is gonna turn around, right?

2023, the final year with Louis Bennett in charge of Marquette men’s soccer: 7-6-3 overall, 1-5-2 Big East play. 31 goals for, 20 goals against, with a 11 to 14 mark in Big East action. 14.7 shots per game for, 10.5 shots per game against.

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2024, Year One for new head coach David Korn: 6-7-4, 2-4-2 Big East play, and just 5-7-4 when you throw out a 1-0 win over Edgewood. 21 goals for, 21 goals against, with a 9 to 14 mark in Big East action. 11.0 shots per game for, 11.6 against.

2025, Year Two: 7-7-2 overall, 1-7-0 Big East play, and just 6-7-2 when you throw out a 2-0 win over Edgewood. 25 goals for, 21 goals against… but a 5 to 11 mark in eight league matches. 15.4 shots per game for, 9.7 shots per game against.

David Korn’s overall record of 13-14-4 is useless to talk about because Marquette is 10-3-2 in non-conference action — 8-3-2 against Division 1 competition — and a very not good 3-11-2 in Big East competition. If we wanted to watch Marquette putter around the .500 mark for the full season and trail towards the back of the Big East standings, we could have just let Louis Bennett keep going. Instead, former athletic director Bill Scholl struck a deal to get Bennett to walk away, and David Korn has yet to show that he can do something different in terms of results.

In other words:

#2 — But what’s the actual issue?

In Year #1, David Korn’s Golden Eagles were 4-3-1 going into their first Big East contest, and that included a pair of losses to two ranked Big Ten teams. Last year, Marquette was 3-0-2 going into their first Big East match of the season.

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Clearly, we can say that Marquette was having success against their non-conference schedule and then things fell apart after that in both seasons. That bears out when you scroll back up for a second and remember that two of Marquette’s three non-conference losses were to ranked opponents, and all three of them came in Year #1. Whatever he’s doing…

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Publish date : 2026-08-15 14:45:00

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