Welcome to Marquette Prospectus. The purpose of this blog is to look at the statistics of Marquette Basketball and College Basketball in general. The inspiration for this site is the fine work being done at places like Basketball Prospectus, and before that, Ken Pomeroy's blog.
This blog has basically risen out of a desire to answer two basic questions:
- What will it take to have Marquette win consistently in the NCAA tournament?
- How good of a coach is Tom Crean really?
All other questions are basically just an offshoot of those two questions. For example, we'll begin to take a look first at Marquette's 07-08 team, and how it compares to the 06-07 and 05-06 teams. We'll dig in some depth to the team statistics and look at the individual players as well. We'll begin analyzing Marquette's style of play using the math.
Never will this site claim to have all of the statistical answers. Frankly, we're learning along the way just like (hopefully) you. We just want to pick up information from the APBR community and then apply it to Marquette. Sometime tomorrow, Dean Oliver's book
Basketball on Paper should show up and we'll have more information to share.
