Jae Crowder Is the MVP of Marquette's Amazing Season by Al Kelly

Marquette's amazing season continues to surprise me and probably most of its fans. Nationally MU is up to #7 in the Coaches Poll, #8 in the AP Poll, and#8 in CBSSports RPI rankings.  These are the kind of rankings we took for granted in Al McGuire's days as our coach in the '70's.

Picked to finish in the middle of the conference Marquette now needs one win to clinch 2nd place alone. Even two losses this week (@Cincinnati, Georgetown here) and we'll finish in a tie for 2nd place with any combination of teams from Georgetown, Notre Dame, and South Florida. I don't know what the tiebreakers are so a 4-way tie could result in a #5 seed for any one of these teams.