Sources: Marquette to promote Broeker to be AD

Jeff Borzello, ESPN

• Personnel WriterJan 20, 2025, 06:14 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting expert.
• Joined ESPN in 2014.
• Graduate of University of Delaware.Marquette is expected to promote

Mike Broeker to athletic director, sources informed ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Monday.Broeker has been the school’s deputy athletic director for the last 18 years, and he also serves as the athletic department’s COO.He joined the athletic department’s media relations group in 2003 after four years at the NBA, working his method up to the No. 2 position in the athletic department with oversight of the guys’s basketball program.Editor’s Picks During Broeker’s time at the school, the guys’s basketball team has won two Big East regular-season championships and advanced past the very first weekend of the NCAA competition on four occasions.Broeker will replace Bill Scholl, who announced in May he planned to retire as quickly as the school discovers his successor.

Scholl took control of in 2014 and made the program-changing hire of Shaka Smart in 2021. Smart led the Golden Eagles to a Big East regular-season title in 2023 and a Sweet 16 appearance last season.Marquette paused its athletic director search last summertime when school president Michael Lovell passed away from cancer.