Marquette University Dental School

Q: There's one left in the NCAA Tournament, Butler, and one left in the NIT, UAB. Are we seeing a permanent shift in college basketball, where the smaller schools are totally incapable of competing with the Majors, or is this just an aberration? It looks like a trend to me. The last team outside of the Big Six Football Conferences to reach the Final Four was Utah in 1998. Now it looks like the B6 may be taking over the NIT, too.

A:"2001-02 Enrollment: Approximately 4,264 students, 3,580 undergraduates" http://www.butler.edu/about/abo_facts_glance.asp Marquette: "Students: 7,500 undergraduates 11,000 total students (including dental, graduate and law schools)" http://www.marquette.edu/pages/home/about/quickfacts Butler's Horizon League rival, and Marquette's neighbor, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is larger still. "This research and teaching ranges wide and far, extending to 149 degree programs that serve more than 25,000 students. Through the School of Continuing Education, another 47,000 people annually complete courses that contribute to their professional or personal growth." http://www.uwm.edu/UWM/Welcome/ UAB: FAST FACTS - Updated 12/17/02 STUDENT ENROLLMENT, FALL 2002 All Students Undergraduate 10,501 Graduate 4,096 First Professional 982 Total for Reporting Purposes 15,579 Advanced Professional 937 Total Headcount Enrollment 16,516 http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=9194 Temple: "Temple University,

of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, is a comprehensive public research university with more than 30,000 students." http://www.temple.edu/about.html Despite once having been a private school, Temple long ago sold out to the corrupt maw of state education, and is now, in effect, IMHO, "Pennsylvania State University at Philadelphia." Who meets what criteria for a "small school" anyway? Notre Dame? "Enrollment figures at the University for the academic year 2001-02 indicated 11,054 students registered for the fall semester. A total of 8,208 were enrolled in undergraduate divisions and 2,846 enrolled in graduate and professional studies."