Marquette Basketball 2026-2027

[patrickgpe]

Two fairly large bits of news came out yesterday

Marquette will play a home and home with National Champion Michigan the next 2 years and they signed the #7 guy in the portal. They really needed an established big and paid what it took to get one.

https://www.anonymouseagle.com/marquette-recruiting/36737/golden-eagles-mens-basketball-louisville-transfer-sananda-fru-commitment

[patrickgpe]

Exciting article about MU transfer Sanandra Fru

(Written by Ben Steele for the Journal Sentinel but this one isn't behind the paywall

https://www.aol.com/articles/future-nba-lottery-pick-mikel-212708349.html

 

[RedStickBrew]

Good read here for Marquette fans. 
 

 

[nate82]

1 hour ago, RedStickBrew said:

Good read here for Marquette fans. 
 

 

About freaking time.  It took Shaka far longer to realize this than I thought it would take.  I am assuming the boosters at Marquette told him to do it or find another job.  

[CheezWizHed]

On 5/29/2026 at 1:37 PM, nate82 said:

About freaking time.  It took Shaka far longer to realize this than I thought it would take.  I am assuming the boosters at Marquette told him to do it or find another job.  

I don't follow Marquette much, but this is surprising.  It would be like having Ted Thompson in draft only mode, but you only are ensured to have your draft picks for 1 year.

[patrickgpe]

16 hours ago, CheezWizHed said:

I don't follow Marquette much, but this is surprising.  It would be like having Ted Thompson in draft only mode, but you only are ensured to have your draft picks for 1 year.

Not really. For the most part, Marquette didn't really deal with transfers under Smart so there was continuity within the program. The issue this past season is that Marquette lost a bunch of players to graduation and wasn't able to replicate their production from within. 

[CheezWizHed]

1 hour ago, patrickgpe said:

Not really. For the most part, Marquette didn't really deal with transfers under Smart so there was continuity within the program. The issue this past season is that Marquette lost a bunch of players to graduation and wasn't able to replicate their production from within. 

Maybe they didn't have the turn-over, but you had the potential every year.  Everyone is a 1 year Free Agent. If you can bring back your team, more power to you. 

[patrickgpe]

5 minutes ago, CheezWizHed said:

Maybe they didn't have the turn-over, but you had the potential every year.  Everyone is a 1 year Free Agent. If you can bring back your team, more power to you. 

thats true and its what makes college sports in general hard to watch. I can deal with good players being one and done. But when every player on the team can leave whenever they want and join a new team every year, its hard to have any kind of bond to your teams. 

[patrickgpe]

Marquette back in Lunardi's first offseason bracketology, albeit in in the playin games. 

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2027-march-madness-men-field-predictions