Marquette Volleyball Preview: at Villanova & at Georgetown

Two weekends to go.

We’re into November, so it’s officially a safe time to go peek at some NCAA tournament bracketology to assuage my nerves. Turns out? Marquette’s apparently doing great, as long as all you’re worried about is whether or not the Golden Eagles keep their NCAA tournament streak intact. I was honestly not expecting that.

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ESPN’s Charlie Creme did a bracketology on Wednesday morning this week, and he has Marquette in the field. They’re outside the seeding, as the NCAA only seeds the regions 1 through 8 for volleyball, but they’re also not in the last four in, and that’s fine by me. USA Today’s John Leuzzi updated his volleyball bracketology to version 2.0 on Thursday morning, and he has the Golden Eagles as a #8 seed. Presumably the final #8 seed, as the order is UCLA, Missouri, Colorado State, and then Marquette and that’s obviously not alphabetical order, but that’s right where they were on his 1.0 version. There’s even a volleyball bracketology Instagram account that’s actually building out a bracket and projecting placement for teams. They have Marquette as a #8 seed as of November 2nd, and that means a first round match against Toledo in a pod hosted by #1 seed Pitt.

Because of the placement of automatic bids in the lower spots in the bracket, Marquette as a #8 seed would have the Golden Eagles at least eight spots clear of the cut line, maybe 12 if all of the “11 seeds” (there aren’t actually 11s the way the NCAA deals with volleyball, you get the idea here” are all at-large bids. That means the Golden Eagles are pretty safe when it comes to getting into the tournament, as long as they don’t smash into any speed bumps along the way as we end the regular season.

There is kind of a big gap between being a #8 seed and being unseeded in the field, for the record. Being seeded, even at #8, means the NCAA selection committee is going to send you to a pod hosted by a #1 seed and you’ll get to play an unseeded team in the first round. Being an unseeded…

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