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Article: MARQUETTE JOINS THE BIG EAST; Golden Eagles dial in for conference call; MU women prepareto make connection
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2005
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Those orange barrels around the Marquette University campus
indicate that something's under construction.
Yes, the highway interchange nearby is being rebuilt but there's
also plenty of dust flying inside the Al McGuire Center, home of the
Marquette women's basketball team.
The players are scrapping and clawing at each other in practice.
Golden Eagles coach Terri Mitchell and her assistants are studying
the opponents as if they, not the student-athletes, had to take a
finals exam. All this so Marquette can assemble the ultimate formula
needed to make an instant impact in the Big East Conference.
"I know our players are fired up and the staff is ready to go,"
Mitchell said. "Immediately, ...