1996-1997 Marquette Men's Basketball

Coach: Mike Deane
Captain: Anthony Pieper
Leading Scorer: Chris Crawford (14.9 ppg)
Leading Rebounder: Faisal Abraham (6.5 rpg)

Marquette had a special run in 1997, winning four CUSA Tournament games in four days to win the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Marquette played five games against top-25 programs, winning three of those match-ups. MU lost to Providence in the first round of the NCAA tournament, when Austin Croshere scored 10,000 points, which killed Marquette.

Roster

Number	Name	Position	Ht.	Wt.	Yr.	Hometown	High School
40	Faisal Abraham	Forward	6-7	225	Sr.	St. Croix, Virgin Is.	Maine Central Prep
21	Mike Bargen	Forward	6-7	200	So.	Lincoln, NE	East
4	John Cliff	Guard	6-2	200	Fr.	Decatur, IL	MacArthur
5	Chris Crawford	Forward	6-9	225	Sr.	Kalamazoo, MI	Comstock
12	Aaron Hutchins	Guard	5-10	175	Jr.	Lima, OH	Central Catholic
20	Abel Joseph	Forward	6-9	240	Jr.	Montreal, Quebec	Dawson
45	Jarrod Lovette	Forward	6-10	245	Jr.	Blair, WI	Blair-Taylor
25	Zack McCall	Forward	6-3	225	Jr.	Fitchburg, MA	Mount Hermon Prep
32	Bart Miller	Guard/Forward	6-5	185	Fr.	Brandenburg, KY	Meade County
3	Anthony Pieper	Guard	6-3	185	Sr.	Wausaukee, WI	Wausaukee
42	John Polonowski	Forward	6-8	225	Fr.	Rockford, MI	Rockford
34	Richard Shaw	Forward/Center	6-11	225	Jr.	LaSalle, Ontario	Sandich Secondary
10	Marcus West	Guard	5-10	185	Jr.	Racine, WI	St. Catherine
13	Alton Mason	Guard	6'1	186	Fr.	Lincoln, NE	Northeast

Schedule

GAME DETAILS: Box Scores and game reviews can be found on the Internet Archive Wayback machine's copy of MU's website. Click here.

Date	Opponent	Location	Result	Record	Notes
11/24/1996	UW-Milwaukee	Home	W 82-55	1-0	Aaron Hutchins tied a Bradley Center record with seven steals
11/29/1996	Santa Clara	Away	L 72-79	1-1
12/6/1996	Prairie View A&M	Home	W 104-49	2-1	First Bank Classic, Marquette set a Bradley Center Marquette record for team steals (18). Aaron Hutchins set Marquette & Bradley Center indvidual records for three point field goal percentage (100%)
12/7/1996	Princeton	Home	L 62-66	2-2	First Bank Classic
12/14/1996	UW-Green Bay	Home	W 55-39	3-2
12/16/1996	Coastal Carolina	Home	W 66-42	4-2
12/19/1996	Appalachian State	Home	W 74-37	5-2	Aaron Hutchins tied the Bradley Center record again with seven steals
12/22/1996	La Salle	Home	W 86-53	6-2
12/27/1996	Dayton	Away	W 65-61	7-2
12/31/1996	UW-Madison	Home	W 59-52	8-2
1/4/1997	Southern Mississippi	Home	W 61-44	9-2 (1-0)
1/7/1997	Iowa State	Away	W 67-64	10-2	#4 Iowa State
1/9/1997	DePaul	Home	W 75-50	11-2 (2-0)
1/12/1997	Memphis	Away	47-54	11-3 (2-1)
1/18/1997	Saint Louis	Home	W 69-48	12-3 (3-1)
1/26/1997	DePaul	Away	W 61-49	13-3 (4-1)
1/30/1997	South Florida	Away	W 71-36	14-3 (5-1)
2/1/1997	Tulane	Home	L 53-54	14-4 (5-2)
2/5/1997	Maine	Home	L 59-68	14-5	Maine's Ramone Jones tied the Bradley Center record with seven steals
2/8/1997	Cincinnati	Away	L 70-91	14-6 (5-3)	#12 Cincinnati
2/15/1997	UNC Charlotte	Away	L 46-66	14-7 (5-4)
2/17/1997	UAB	Away	W 68-52	15-7 (6-4)
2/20/1997	Louisville	Home	W 79-71 (OT)	16-7 (7-4)	#15 Louisville
2/25/1997	Saint Louis	Away	W 56-54	17-7 (8-4)
2/27/1997	Cincinnati	Home	L 74-80	17-8 (8-5)	#9 Cincinnati, Anthony Pieper tied Marquette & Bradley Center records for three point field goal percentage (100%)
3/2/1997	Houston	Home	W 76-67	18-8 (9-5)	1977 throwback jersey night
3/5/1997	DePaul	Saint Louis, Missouri	W 79-53	19-8	Conference USA Championship
3/6/1997	Memphis State	Saint Louis, Missouri	W 63-45	20-8	Conference USA Championship
3/7/1997	Cincinnati	Saint Louis, Missouri	W 91-79	21-8	#10 Cincinnati, Conference USA Championship
3/8/1997	UNC Charlotte	Saint Louis, Missouri	W 60-52	22-8	Conference USA Championship
3/14/1997	Providence	Charlotte, North Carolina	L 59-81	22-9	NCAA Tournament

Marquette led the nation in field-goal percentage defense (36.2%), which is still good for third all-time in NCAA history.
Austin Croshere nearly became the first player in NCAA history to go 16-16 from the foul line in Providence's thrashing of Marquette on March 14th. Instead he had to settle for 15-15, still tops all-time for an MU opponent.

Statistics

Player	G-GS	MIN	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	OR	DR	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF-DQ	PTS	PPG
Chris Crawford	31-31	961	165	352	.469	33	86	.384	100	130	.769	55	110	165	45	33	22	69	89-3	463	14.9
Aaron Hutchins	31-31	954	145	347	.418	65	184	.353	60	86	.698	14	83	97	172	62	1	112	36-0	415	13.4
Anthony Pieper	26-25	761	100	230	.435	46	114	.404	46	60	.767	10	61	71	52	19	1	39	46-1	292	11.2
Faisal Abraham	30-28	742	76	132	.576	0	0	–	42	100	.420	87	108	195	7	21	84	21	61-1	194	6.5
Jarrod Lovette	31-15	621	54	113	.478	2	11	.182	46	66	.697	44	115	159	31	20	9	42	54-1	156	5.0
Richard Shaw	27-18	402	64	110	.582	0	1	.000	21	33	.636	53	66	119	8	10	21	30	56-4	149	5.5
Mike Bargen	31- 2	528	48	124	.387	21	67	.313	13	30	.433	28	58	86	36	26	17	26	41-0	130	4.2
Marcus West	31- 2	410	24	92	.261	9	38	.237	41	51	.804	2	29	31	67	19	0	42	27-0	98	3.2
John Cliff	30- 3	244	26	88	.295	14	55	.255	6	9	.667	12	22	34	12	4	2	19	15-0	72	2.4
Abel Joseph	30- 0	322	20	42	.476	0	0	–	24	52	.462	29	43	72	1	4	11	20	51-2	64	2.1
Bart Miller	19- 0	149	15	36	.417	0	3	.000	9	25	,360	13	20	33	13	5	6	23	14-0	39	2.1
John Polonowski	23- 0	129	13	38	.342	1	5	.200	10	16	.625	18	12	30	4	4	6	13	25-0	37	1.6
TOTALS	31	6225	750	1704	.440	191	564	.339	418	658	.635	365	727	1206	448	227	180	464	515-12	2109	68.0
Opponents	31	6225	628	1735	.362	175	540	.324	360	556	.647	405	660	1065	360	212	59	461	588-23	1791	57.8

Coaches

Mike Deane - Head Coach
Dan Theiss - Associate HC
Maurice (Bo) Ellis - Assistant
Mike Rice - Assistant
Sean Rivers - Administrative Asst.
David Leigh - Athletic Trainer

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