Men's basketball The men's
basketball team is ninth in the NCAA for postseason appearances all-time (45), including 30 NCAA Tournament appearances (T-11th all time). The
Warriors, coached by
Al McGuire, won the
1977 NCAA tournament and were
runners-up in
1974.
Maurice "Bo" Ellis was a member of each of those teams and remains the only Marquette player to appear in two Final Fours. The
2003 team, coached by
Tom Crean and led on the court by
Dwyane Wade, Robert Jackson,
Steve Novak, and
Travis Diener, upset top-ranked
Kentucky to reach the
Final Four of the
2003 NCAA tournament. In that
Midwest regional final in
Minneapolis, Wade became the fourth player to record a
triple-double in an NCAA tournament game. He was named an
AP All-American two years in a row and was the
Conference USA Player of the Year. The team plays in the
Fiserv Forum, the same venue used by the
Milwaukee Bucks, and has been doing so since the 2018-2019 season. When
Fiserv Forum opened, it replaced the
Bradley Center, which was home to both the Golden Eagles and the Bucks from 1988 to 2008.
Conference affiliations The charter of the current Big East dates only to 2013. However, the settlement between the schools that formed the current Big East and those that remained in the league now known as the
American Athletic Conference gave the departing schools the "Big East" name. Additionally, The American recognizes none of the pre-2013 athletic history of the Big East—even in football and women's rowing, the only two sports sponsored by the original Big East that are sponsored by The American but not the current Big East.
Women's basketball The
women's basketball team is coached by Carolyn Kieger. The program has experienced success in recent years under former coach Terri Mitchell's direction, including a run to the championship game of the
WNIT, where the women finished as
runners-up in 2006, and won the championship in 2008. Most recently, the team made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2011, where they were defeated by top-seeded Tennessee. Marquette women's basketball has qualified for the NCAA tournament seven times since 1994. The team now plays in the Al McGuire Center, named after the former Marquette men's coach. The team notably hired
Tyler Summitt, the 21-year-old son of the former
Tennessee coach
Pat Summitt, as an assistant effective with the 2012–13 season, the announcement coming on the same day his mother announced her retirement after 38 years leading the Lady Vols. In 2006, Marquette traveled to St. Thomas to participate in the
Paradise Jam tournament. In the opening round Marquette defeated Western Michigan 74–61. In the second round Marquette defeated Auburn 65–61. On the final day, Marquette beat Xavier 73–53 to finish with a 3–0 record and win the 2006 Paradise Jam Championship (St. John division).
Cross-country and track The
cross-country and
track teams have produced five Olympians, 13 NCAA champions and 27 All-Americans. was the longtime coach of both programs; he was a top distance runner at MU in the 1920s and coached until 1976, the last 29 years as head coach, a total of 52 years as athlete and coach at Marquette. Shimek set the school record in the mile in 1927 and it held up for over thirty years. Both programs were dropped with football in December 1960, but cross country was reinstated within weeks so the athletic program could retain its NCAA membership, which required a varsity intercollegiate sport in each season. Track missed three spring seasons (1961–1963) and returned in March 1964, initially without
scholarships. After accumulating several years of budget deficits for the university, the football program was dropped after a 3–6 season in 1960 under second-year coach
Lisle Blackbourn, along with
track and
cross country programs. Their last successful season was 1953 and the last seven seasons had a combined 10–44–3 () record, including two straight winless seasons (1956 and 1957), At the time, Marquette had a 78-year football tradition and was the largest Catholic university in the United States. Cross country was immediately reinstated and track returned in 1964; football at Marquette returned at the club level in 1967.
Marquette Stadium, the football team's home since 1924, was dismantled in 1978. Located in the
Merrill Park neighborhood west of the university, the stadium had a seating capacity of 24,000 at its peak. It was used by
Green Bay Packers of the
NFL for three home games in
1952; the Packers played several home games in Milwaukee every season from
1933 through
1994; previous games were played
State Fair Park in
West Allis and succeeding years at the new
County Stadium. Marquette played a majority of its home schedule at County Stadium in 1957 and 1958.
Men's golf Marquette University fields only a men's team for golf. Former head coach Tim Grogan was honored as the Big East Conference Men's Golf Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2008. The golf team holds Marquette's only Big East Championships, which were won in 2008, 2015, 2017, and 2019. Mike Van Sickle, class of 2009, was named to the
Ping Division I All-American Honorable Mention list in 2007 and 2008. He was a first-team All-American in 2009. Van Sickle currently holds the school record for single-season average at 70.00
strokes per 18 holes, and most sub-par rounds at 86.
Lacrosse On December 16, 2010, the university announced that it would be adding men's and women's
lacrosse teams to begin play as independents in the 2012–13 academic year, before becoming full members of the Big East Conference in men's and women's lacrosse in 2013–14. The team's home field is
Valley Fields.
Soccer The men's and women's
soccer programs have achieved varying degrees of success. In 2006, the men's team won only one game and finished last in their conference while the women made a run into the NCAA postseason tournament. In 2022, Marquette University sold 11 acres of land to Bear Development, which plans to co-develop a sports complex with Kacmarcik Enterprises named Iron District MKE. This complex will serve as the competition venue for men's and women's soccer as well as men's and women's lacrosse. It will have a seating capacity of 8,000 and also serve as the home field for a future
USL Championship team. Both teams currently compete at
Valley Fields. ==Championships==