Marquette Men’s Basketball Gets Three AP Preseason Poll Points

If you’re getting yourself ready for the 2026-27 men’s college basketball season and you’re looking over rosters and what not, you can easily talk yourself into “Well, obviously Marquette’s going to be better than they were last season.” The bare minimum for that is “Shaka Smart is not going to take a 12-20 season lightly, things are going to change.”

But precisely how optimistic are you about where the Golden Eagles are going this season?

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Are you “Vote them #23 in the country in your Associated Press preseason top 25 poll ballot” optimistic?

If not, then you are not as optimistic as Dave Borges of the New Haven Register. He voted Marquette #23 in the country in the preseason AP poll, and he is the lone reason why we can say that Marquette men’s basketball is receiving votes in the preseason Associated Press poll.

Receiving vote? Received vote? Whatever, you get the idea here.

Did Borges vote for Marquette as a way of propping up the Big East, since he’s a UConn beat reporter? Well, he only has the Huskies at #4, slotting them behind Florida, Michigan State, and Virginia. He has St. John’s at #20 — when the Johnnies came it at #13 in the full poll — then Marquette at #23, and that’s it for the entire Big East on his ballot.

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As for Marquette’s opponents this season in the preseason top 25, UConn is leading the way, landing at #4 in the rankings and the top ranked team that did not get a first place vote. Michigan State, who is coming to Fiserv Forum coming up on Sunday for an exhibition game, is #6, and Virginia is #9 to round out the top 10 opponents. The Cavaliers are going to be facing Marquette in the Battle 4 Atlantis during the week of Thanksgiving.

St. John’s is #13 as mentioned above, Michigan is #16 and will thus probably be still be ranked when MU goes to Ann Arbor in the second week of the season, and that’s it for ranked teams. Missouri missed the top 25 by 12 points, landing as the best unranked team in the country for now and within…

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Publish date : 2026-10-19 17:09:00

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