{"id":734364,"date":"2026-05-14T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/734364\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:30:19","slug":"the-marquette-mens-basketball-sophomore-year-blocks-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/734364\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marquette Men\u2019s Basketball Sophomore Year Blocks Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, you should be more than familiar with\u00a0our series of regularly updating leaderboards<\/a>\u00a0for various Marquette Golden Eagles sports accomplishments. Keep checking back to that link in the previous sentence for our charts as the seasons continue to churn through history and MU\u2019s various teams continue to create new memories and accomplishments.<\/p>\n

This time around,\u00a0we\u2019re going to look at blocked shots by a Marquette sophomore men\u2019s basketball player.<\/p>\n

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We have to start with the fact that three of the 13 best shot blocking seasons in Marquette history<\/a> have been squared away by sophomores. I don\u2019t quite think we can say that Jim McIlvaine\u2019s sophomore year record \u2014 which is third best for any season and for Mac himself \u2014 is an untouchable record here. Theo John got within 16 during his sophomore campaign, and that number itself is now the eighth best total for any season by any player. John only played in 48.7% of Marquette\u2019s minutes that season, just 19.7 per game. He had a top 20 in the country block rate that year. If there\u2019s ever a Marquette sophomore who can block shots at that rate and play 73% of the minutes \u2014 a 50% increase! \u2014 then in theory, that\u2019s a 105 block season by increasing John\u2019s 70 by 50% as well. That\u2019s not even what\u2019s needed to break McIlvaine\u2019s record, and all I did was boost playing time to imagine the possibilities here.<\/p>\n

Chris Otule is the other sophomore who has a top 13 block total, and his is in a three-way tie for 11th best which thus extends down to 13th. Luke Fischer has an interesting case as the most underrated sophomore blocks season in Marquette history. He got to 53 in 2014-15, but remember: That was the season where Fischer had to sit out til the end of the fall semester because of when he transferred in from Indiana. He averaged 2.2 blocks per game that year, so if he had played in Marquette\u2019s first eight games at that rate, that\u2019s another 17 blocks, give or take. That would be 70, even with John for second best in MU sophomore history and 8th best in any season.<\/p>\n

The most recent addition to the list is Oso Ighodaro. He had 29 blocks in the 2021-22 season, the first under the direction of head coach Shaka Smart. He did that in just 18.2 minutes per game and averaging just under a block per outing. That doesn\u2019t sound that impressive, obviously, but I should point out that it ended up being Ighodaro\u2019s best blocks-per-40 minutes rate during his time at Marquette<\/a>. That was a pretty notable shot blocking season for Marquette in general, as Kur Kuath landed in 5th place for any single Marquette season that year, and he was doing that in just 19 minutes a game.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the chart looks at the end of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

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