A new season will bring new challenges for the Marquette Golden Eagles and new coach Buzz Williams. Looking to build off last year's 25-10 record and its first victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament since 2003, MU this season will play a total of 14 games against teams that advanced to the post-season in 2007-'08, with seven of those to be played at the Bradley Center. Nine of those teams competed in the NCAA tournament along with MU: Wisconsin, Tennessee, Villanova, West Virginia, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Connecticut, Louisville and Pittsburgh. The Golden Eagles will play Villanova and Georgetown both home and away in Big East play. "We put the schedule together with the idea that is prepares us in the best possible way for the post-season," Williams said in a statement. "We play a Big Ten opponent at home, a SEC opponent at a neutral site and an ACC opponent on the road -- each of these challenges will prepare us for Big East play." Williams' first regular-season game at the helm of MU will be on Nov. 14 against Houston-Baptist, with the rest of November highlighted by a Nov. 22 matchup with UW-Milwaukee at the Bradley Center and games against Northern Iowa and Dayton on Nov. 28 and 29, respectively, as part of the Chicago Invitational in Hoffman Estates, Ill. MU will also host inter-state rival Wisconsin on Dec. 6 at 8:30 p.m. in a game to be televised nationally on ESPNU, and then travel to face Tennessee in the Bi ...
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