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Marquette in the "West Region" of the NCAA Tournament by Al Kelly

Thursday had a couple of upsets as usual but Friday was as crazy a day as I can remember. Two #15's beat #2's. Even one upset like these two hadn't happened in more than ten years and it had only happened four times previously. In other upsets we had a #13 and a #12 moving on to play each other. And in the South region there were as many upsets as victories by the favorites. Underdogs #10, #11, #12, and #15 moved to the next round along with favorites #1, #3, #4, and #8.

Jae Crowder Difference For Marquette from ESPN.com

Marquette is going to the Sweet 16, which is like saying the sweat-soaked dress shirts of MU coach Buzz Williams are going to the dry cleaner. It's almost a given.

On Saturday evening at the KFC Yum! Center, Marquette defeated Murray State 62-53 in a game that was part MMA, part football and all big-boy basketball. Unless you lost a body part on a play, the refs swallowed their whistles.

"We're thankful," Williams said. "I thought the physicality game was as much as we have seen in a long time."

MARQUETTE 62, MURRAY 53 By Dick Weiss in the New York Daily News

At first glance, the late Al McGuire and current Marquette coach Buzz Williams don’t appear to have much in common.

McGuire grew up in Far Rockaway, where he worked in the neighborhood bar his father used to own. Williams was the child of divorced parents in the obscure northeast Texas town of Van Alstyne.