On a cold winter day in March, Vevette Hill-Nwagbaraocha stood outside for over an hour with dozens of other fans and students, waiting for two buses to leave.
Those buses were filled with players and coaching staff of the Marquette University men’s and women’s basketball teams, both on their way to play in the first round of the March Madness tournament Friday.
Hill-Nwagbaraocha, the assistant director of the campus ministry, was born and raised in Milwaukee and has always supported Marquette basketball teams in the past. That’s why she felt inclined to cheer on her university as they headed to the airport on a chilly Wednesday afternoon.
“That’s why we’re here. To make sure that they have the heart of the community to go in there and get it done. To give it all they got,” Hill-Nwagbaraocha said. “All they need to do is leave it all on the floor, and it’s going to turn out the…
