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Marquette basketball’s March Madness opponent is Western Kentucky in 2024 NCAA Tournament bracket
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The Marquette men's basketball team's NCAA Tournament journey starts in Indianapolis.
The Golden Eagles (25-9) earned a No. 2 seeding in the South Region and will face Western Kentucky at 1 p.m. Milwaukee time on Friday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
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Shaka Smart's NCAA Tournament history at Marquette
The Golden Eagles have made the NCAA Tournament in all three of Shaka Smart's three seasons as head coach of the program.
Ninth-seeded MU lost to eighth-seeded North Carolina in the first round of the 2022 tournament.
The Golden Eagles earned a No. 2 seeding in last season's NCAA Tournament. MU beat Vermont in the first round , the school's first victory in the NCAA Tournament since 2013. But the Golden Eagles were then upset by seventh-seeded Michigan State in the second round.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Marquette's March Madness opponent is Western Kentucky in 2024 NCAA Tournament
