Marquette heading into Florida matchup with distraction
Marquette’s second straight trip to the Sweet 16 hasn’t gotten off to the best start.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday that six Marquette players were ticketed for being underage at a downtown Milwaukee nightclub. The incident took place on Jan. 29, though the tickets weren’t served until March 12.
Players involved included Todd Mayo, 20, a freshman guard (and younger brother of Memphis Grizzles guard O.J. Mayo) ; Vander Blue, 19, a sophomore guard; Jamail Jones, 19, a sophomore forward; Juan Anderson, 18, a freshman forward; Derrick Wilson, 20, a freshman guard; and Jake Thomas, 20, a junior guard.
Marquette athletic director Larry Williams said discipline was handled internally at the time of the incident and that all six players will play Thursday against the Gators.
Marquette coach Buzz Williams offered a terse opening statement about the incident in his Tuesday news conference before heading to Phoenix.
“That was handled Jan. 29 with our team, it was a Sunday morning, it was handled by our administration Jan. 30,” Williams said. “Some of the commentary, some of the quotes, some of the dates, not sure how all of that matches up. But I’ll do my absolute best to figure out how that’s played itself out.”
Kevin Brockway gave up on his dream of becoming a lefty starting pitcher for the New York Mets when he walked four straight batters, then hit one in a middle school game in Suffern, N.Y. Since graduating college in 1993, he’s worked as a sports writer at daily newspapers throughout the state of Florida, beginning with the Key West Citizen. He then moved on to the Northwest Florida Daily News and Naples Daily News before becoming the men’s basketball writer for The Gainesville Sun in 2003. Brockway has won multiple state and national writing awards during his 16-year career. Favorite pastimes include karaoke and watching baseball. Favorite college hoops team growing up was St. John’s.
How convenient.
by Butch Aten
What else can a person do in Milwaukee in January but drink. Ha! Ha!
by william
This story is media crap.. Let’s play basketball!!! Go Gators!!!
by Gatorwilly
Not much of a distraction to this point…
by Dennis