Marquette In The 2026 NBA Playoffs: Second Round Edition

Playoff Tyler! | Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images WHOOPS.

My bad, everyone. I missed the window to actually get this post up in between the Philadelphia 76ers advancing to the second round to face the New York Knicks on Saturday and Game 1 of that Eastern Conference semifinal series on Monday. I totally had time to do it on Sunday night and Monday morning….

just totally did not realize that the series was starting up that quickly, and here we are. This is going to be a shorter post than our first round entry in keeping track of the NBA Playoffs through a Marquette magnifying glass. That is due to Oklahoma City eliminating Oso Ighodaro and Phoenix in four games as well as Detroit rallying from down 3-1 to bounce Jamal Cain and Orlando in seven games.

We got very close to being able to keep an eye on the Magic, as they had a 20 point lead at halftime of Game 6…. and then they lost by double digits and then lost Game 7 by 20 points. That leaves us with just one former Marquette player involved in the NBA Playoffs, and as we’ll get to in a second, “involved” is a stretch of a word to use…… Tyler Kolek — New York Knicks Kolek and New York advanced out of the first round with a 4-2 series win over the Atlanta Hawks.