Best Marquette players of the last 30 years

[Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77"]

For the one year he did, but for his career, he rarely played like a 5-star recruit.

[Phantom Warrior]

To be fair, he was a four-star recruit, but he was Top 50 (barely) on RSCI.

We'll never know, of course, what his senior year would have been like. Maybe he would have continued his upward curve, or maybe he would have plateaued at the same level he showed junior year.

[ge1974]

I have Dominic James on the second team. Four years as a starting PG...4 years for MU in the NCAAs.

[TheSultan]

For the one year he did, but for his career, he rarely played like a 5-star recruit.

I put this together back in 2014. He played basically to his ranking. People just expected more.


Blue was RSCI #48 in the country in 2010. Here is a list of the ten ranked higher than him....and the ten ranked behind:

38. Dwight Powell (Forward, Stanford...slightly better stats...2nd round pick this year)
39. Tyler Lamb (Guard, UCLA...started well, transferred to Long Beach midway though junior year where he had 21 ppg)
40. Jordan McRae (Guard, Tennessee...didn't play much as freshman but became 18 ppg scorer..2nd round pick)
41. Phil Pressey (Guard, Missouri....more of a PG...declared for 2013 draft and went undrafted)
42. Nate Lubik (Georgetown...decent role player)
43. Okaro White (Florida State...decent player with stats just under Vander's)
44. Dominique Ferguson (Two years at FIU....playing in England after declaring for 2012 draft)
45. Luke Cothron (Committed to Auburn, transferred all over the place...no idea what he is doing now)
46. Jayvaughn Pinkston (Villanova. Suspended his freshman year. Solid player for Nova)
47. KT Harrell (Started at UVA, transferred to Auburn where he had 18 ppg year last year. One year left.)
48. Vander Blue (Marquette)
49. Travis McKie (Started every game in four years at Wake. Decent stats on a terrible team)
50. Stacey Poole (One year at Kentucky, transferred to Georgia Tech. Not much to show for it.)
51. JT Terrell (One year at Wake, transferred to USC. 9 ppg scorer last year)
52. Casey Prather (Florida. Good player with nearly 20 ppg his senior year)
53. Keala King (Two years at Arizona State. Transferred to Long Beach State. 10 ppg last year)
54. Anthony Brown (Stanford. Solid role player)
55. Mychal Parker (Two poor years at Maryland. Ended career in NAIA.)
56. Lorenzo Brown (NC State. Declared for 2013 draft, went undrafted, and spent most of year in D-League)
57. Gary Franklin (Baylor. Role player.)
58. James Johnson (Started at Virginia. Transferred to SDSU. Bit player.)