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Leading Rebounder: [[Don Kojis]] (13.0 rpg)\\ | Leading Rebounder: [[Don Kojis]] (13.0 rpg)\\ | ||
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Followers of Marquette athletics will recall 1959 as the year when the Warrior cage team returned to college basketball' | Followers of Marquette athletics will recall 1959 as the year when the Warrior cage team returned to college basketball' | ||
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Marquette finished the season ranked 15th in the final UPI poll and 20th in the final AP poll. | Marquette finished the season ranked 15th in the final UPI poll and 20th in the final AP poll. | ||
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+ | Marquette received invitations to both the NIT and NCAA tournaments in February. | ||
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+ | Team Captain, [[Gene Suppelsa]] said that although the team would have liked to have been in the NIT in New York, the NCAA was fine with him. Suppelsa thought the only difference between the two tournaments was the sites involved and that the team would' | ||
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+ | "Sure, in a way I was looking forward a little to going to New York," said guard [[Jim Kollar]], "but the NCAA probably carries more prestige. | ||
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+ | [[Walt Mangham]] shrugged off a request to compare the two tournaments. | ||
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+ | [[Bob Walczak]], a starting guard on the " | ||
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+ | "I remember that our 1955 team actually preferred the NCAA. We had heard so much about Adolph Rupp and his great [[Kentucky]] teams, that we were dying to get a shot at them. They talk about publicity advantages in New York, but I honestly believe that we got more ink after knocking off [[Kentucky]], | ||
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|12/18/58| [[New York]] | W 70-59 | 6-1 | | |12/18/58| [[New York]] | W 70-59 | 6-1 | | ||
|12/20/58| [[Creighton]] | W 70-49 | 7-1 | | |12/20/58| [[Creighton]] | W 70-49 | 7-1 | | ||
- | |12/22/58| #9 [[Xavier]] | W 86-71 | 8-1 | | + | |12/22/58| #9 [[Xavier |
|12/27/58| [[UW-Milwaukee]] | W 76-60 | 9-1 | | |12/27/58| [[UW-Milwaukee]] | W 76-60 | 9-1 | | ||
|1/3/59| at [[Detroit]] | W 78-63 | 10-1 | | |1/3/59| at [[Detroit]] | W 78-63 | 10-1 | | ||
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|2/4/59| [[Bowling Green]] | W 73-62 | 16-1 | | |2/4/59| [[Bowling Green]] | W 73-62 | 16-1 | | ||
|2/7/59| at [[Loyola (IL)]]| W 90-60 | 17-1 | | |2/7/59| at [[Loyola (IL)]]| W 90-60 | 17-1 | | ||
- | |2/9/59| at [[Depaul]] | L 80-89 | 17-2 | | + | |2/9/59| at [[DePaul]] | L 80-89 | 17-2 | |
|2/14/59| at [[Louisville]] | L 55-68 | 17-3 | | |2/14/59| at [[Louisville]] | L 55-68 | 17-3 | | ||
- | |2/21/59| at [[Xavier]] | W 79-70 | 18-3 | | + | |2/21/59| at [[Xavier |
|2/24/59| [[Notre Dame]] | W 95-76 | 19-3 | | |2/24/59| [[Notre Dame]] | W 95-76 | 19-3 | | ||
|2/27/59| at [[Western Michigan]] | W 81-71 | 20-3 | | |2/27/59| at [[Western Michigan]] | W 81-71 | 20-3 | | ||
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|3/7/59| at [[Notre Dame]] | L 35-51 | 22-4 | | |3/7/59| at [[Notre Dame]] | L 35-51 | 22-4 | | ||
|3/10/59| vs [[Bowling Green]] | W 89-71| 23-4 |NCAA Tournament| | |3/10/59| vs [[Bowling Green]] | W 89-71| 23-4 |NCAA Tournament| | ||
- | |3/13/59| vs #7 [[Michigan State]] | L 69-74| 23-5 |NCAA Tournament| | + | |3/13/59| vs #7 [[Michigan State]] |
|3/14/59| vs #2 [[Kentucky]] | L 69-98 | 23-6 |NCAA Tournament| | |3/14/59| vs #2 [[Kentucky]] | L 69-98 | 23-6 |NCAA Tournament| | ||
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