The Marquette Golden Eagles (formerly known as the Marquette Warriors, Blue and Gold, Hilltoppers, and Golden Avalanche (football only)) are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Marquette University, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Marquette's athletic teams participate at the NCAA Division I level and are members of the Big East Conference. The men's basketball team was the 1976-77 NCAA National Champion, a 1974 NCAA finalist, the 1970 National Invitational Tournament Champion, and a 2003 Final Four participant.
On December 15, 2012, Marquette and the other seven Catholic, non-FBS schools announced that they were departing the Big East for a new conference.
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“Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)