The former Marquette player leads the program to the first appearance of the NCAA tournament

Brian Barone had already made office shopping for the moment.

The former Marquette player from 1998 to 2001 and now head coach of NCAA Division I, Barone has just led the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to his first male basketball tournament of the NCAA, Capped with a 69-48 victory in the Ohio Valley conference championship In the south-east of high-end Missouri on Saturday.

During post-match television, Barone has shown a pair of supervised scissors That he had climbed over the team’s doorway door six years ago, with the expectation that they would be used to cutting the nets at some point. The OVC participant became the first team to obtain an automatic berth in the 2025 window.

The story of Barone in Wisconsin basketball does not only touch MU. He was an assistant under the former MU teammate, Brian Wardle, at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and was one of those who interviewed for the UWGB trainer who went to Linc Darner in 2015. UWGB beaten Marquette in December 2012, 49-47, with Wardle and Barone.

Barone also worked on the staff as a basketball operations coordinator and video coordinator at Marquette with Tom Crean in 2007-08 after obtaining her baccalaureate in Marquette in 2000 and her master’s degree in 2002.

Barone announced that it would be transferred from Texas A&M to Marquette in April 1998, needing to sit on a season due to NCAA transfer rules. Barone was the headache of Cordell Henry, who joined the program in the first year for the 1998-1999 season.

Barone’s father, Tony, had just been dismissed as chief coach in Texas A&M and later became director of players’ personnel for Memphis grizzly guys. The elder Barone had been a candidate for marketing when the program hired Kevin O’Neill in 1989.

Barone won the “Super Sub” prize in the team as a senior in 2001. He collected an average of 2.4 points per game for MU in 58 games played (with a departure) in two seasons.

The Siu-Edwardsville team from Barone played Marquette in November 2021, the first match played by Mu under the new head coach Shaka Smart; The Golden Eagles prevailed, 88-77.

Former New Berlin Star West Desmond Polk A starter for Siu-Edwardsville

Barone is not the only connection of the Wisconsin on the cougars.

Desmond Polk, who started each match for the team and on average 6.2 points per game, initially attended the New Berlin West High School for two seasons before playing his junior year in the School light in Indiana. He ended his career in high school in Link Year Prep in Missouri and was with the program has been located for five seasons.

Another start, Junior Brian Taylor, appeared in seven games for Uw-Milwaukee as a recruit of the 2022-23 season. This year, he started each match and on average 12.0 points and 4.1 rebounds for cougars.

This article originally appeared on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Former Marquette Briana Barone leads to the first NCAA tournament