March 12, 2005 – Marquette will open the 2005 postseason on Monday, March 14 hosting Western Michigan, from the Mid American Conference, at the Bradley Center in the first round of the 2005 National Invitation Tournament (NIT). The game will be broadcast nationally by ESPN with tip-off set for 8:00 p.m. CT.
“We are very excited to still have the opportunity to play, to be playing at home, and to have the nation through ESPN see our tremendous home crowd again,
Excellent! Congratulations!
Source? Link please, as I've never heard of the NIT making such a detailed announcement before the NCAA bids come out.
If it's true, congrats to WMU as I thought they'd be one of the MAC schools on the outside looking in this postseason.
Hi all. It was first on the Marquette official site.<a href='http://www.gomarquette.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=26&url_article_id=6507&url_subchannel_id=&change_well_id=2' target='_blank'>Link</a>
Is also on <a href='http://www.wmubroncos.com' target='_blank'>WMU Site</a>
now that NIT plays mon. there gonna have to prearange games for TV.
Very Cool! The Broncos are good and they can beat Marquette if they can avoid that stretch where their opponent gets hot while they swoon. (Like last night's game against Buffalo and the bracket buster game versus Northern Iowa.)