Marquette Basketball Quiz Answers - Marquette University

1. Who was the first men’s basketball head coach?

2. Who was the first women’s basketball head coach?

3. What year did Marquette win the NCAA National Championship?

4. Which women’s basketball coach led the team for 18 seasons?

5. In 2008, women’s basketball achieved which championship feat?

6. How many seasons did Al McGuire coach?

7. In 2016, which alum was selected for the USA Olympic basketball roster?

8. Which of these is NOT an Al McGuire saying?

9. What year did Carolyn Kieger become head coach?

10. What is Dwyane Wade’s basketball number?

11. Which player was named Most Outstanding Player at the 1977 Final Four?

12. In the 2014-15 season, which men’s basketball player led the team in scoring with 15 points per game?

13. What number does Chloe Marotta and Cam Marotta play in tribute to their father, Marquette alumnus Marc Marotta?

14. Which men’s basketball player has scored 1,929 points (and counting)?

15. What former player was named 2006 Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated?

16. Which former men’s basketball player was named the Big East Player of the Year in 2012?

17. Allazia Blockton is the first player men’s or women’s to score ____ points.

18. How many trips to the Sweet 16 has Marquette taken?

19. How many NBA draft picks has Marquette had?

20. Which MBB player wore the number 31 jersey in 1977?

21. What year was Al McGuire named College Coach of the Year by AP, UPI, The Sporting News and the U.S. Basketball Writers’ Association?

22. When was Al McGuire inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame?

23. Who was Al McGuire’s former assistant coach who went on to become head coach from 1977 to 1983?

24. Which player was featured in the documentary “Hoop Dreams” in 1995?

25. Who did the men’s basketball team defeat on National Marquette Day this year?

26. Which MBB player went on to play for the Chicago Bulls and named Most Improved Player by the NBA in 2015?

27. How many players were on the very first women’s basketball team?

28. What was the name of the Marquette University band director famously known as “Mr. G”?

29. According to Al McGuire, when is winning important?

30. Who is the all-time leader in blocks for the men’s team?

31. Which actor shares a name with a 1984 men’s basketball player?

32. In an interview, Sacar Anim said he was surprised at Brendan Bailey’s ability to…

33. In an interview, how did Ed Morrow describe Sam and Joey Hauser?

34. What did McGuire call the “unit that would go in to change the rhythm of a game?”

35. Allazia Blockton scored over how many points in her high school career?

36. What year did men’s basketball win their first Great Midwestern Conference title?

37. Which former MBB player has been named ‘best dressed’ by multiple publications (GQ, Forbes Magazine, Sports Illustrated)?

38. Which former MBB player purchased a boombox aquarium?

39. Marquette great Don Kojis was drafted in the second round (12th pick) of the 1961 NBA Draft by what team?

40. Who was the first player to have her number retired and was also the first female inductee to the Marquette M Club Hall of Fame?

41. As the pioneer of women’s athletics, which female was the only one in the U.S. to coach both basketball and volleyball simultaneously?

42. What was the most recent year a Marquette player was drafted into the NBA?

43. Which NBA team has drafted 10 Marquette alumni, the most of any NBA team?

44. Which Marquette coach led his team to defeat Kentucky to advance to the Sweet 16 but lost to eventual runner-up Duke University?

45. What was the 1954-’55 men’s team dubbed as after finishing its season as the 8th ranked power in the country?

46. In 1981, Doc Rivers fulfilled a childhood dream by beating Notre Dame with a 30-foot shot with how much time on the clock?

47. Which two players were called the “Kangaroo Kids” during the 1959-’60 season for combining to make the nation's best two-man rebounding team in college basketball?

48. What year did men’s basketball make it to the NCAA finals for the first time?

49. What year did the women’s basketball team qualify for the NCAA tournament for the first time?

50. What year did men’s basketball start playing their home games at the Bradley Center?

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