veteran Marquette walk-on who brings toughness, experience, and locker-room value
In the 2024-25 season, Jake Ciardo appeared in five games for Marquette, scored his first career basket against Western Carolina, and remained an academically decorated senior with three straight BIG EAST All-Academic selections. He’s not a volume-stat guy; his value is in being a trusted, high-IQ depth guard who stayed with the program through an injury lost season in 2023-24 and keeps showing up with poise, toughness, and local-program loyalty. If you need a gritty bench piece who understands the system and makes a roster better off the court as much as on it, he fits that mold.
