With the 2025-26 season long since in the books, let’s take a few moments to look back at the performance of each member of YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles this year. While we’re at it, we’ll also take a look back at our player previews and see how our preseason prognostications stack up with how things actually played out. We’ll run through the roster in order of total minutes played going from lowest to highest, and today we’ll move along to the second of two guards that has already transferred out of the program…..
Tre Norman
Junior — #5 — Guard — 6’4” — 205 lbs. — Boston, Massachusetts
WHAT WE SAID:
Reasonable Expectations
BartTorvik.com projects Tre Norman to play nearly 15 minutes a game while averaging 4.5 points, 2.8 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game.
Yeah, we’re not going with that. A 50% jump in his minutes, a 100% jump in his points, rebounds, and assists? Yeah, no. Sorry, but no. That is not going to be what we are reasonably going to expect from him.
How about this for a reasonable expectation: Tre Norman turns into a reliable Big East rotation player. He hasn’t been that yet. We’ll keep it generic that way. No stats attached, just “hey, he’s doing stuff and I like what I see when he’s out there.” Regular playing time. Positive impact on the team. That kind of thing. I want to be able to come back to this preview in the spring when it’s time to write the Player Reviews and be thinking, “hey, things worked out for Tre this year, cool.”
I’m not even going to go as far as to say “The light goes on for Tre Norman.” That’s way too far past what we need to see from him in 2025-26.
Why You Should Get Excited
In the words of Olivia Rodrigo: It’s a bad idea, right? F*** it, it’s fine.
WHAT IF THE LIGHT GOES ON FOR TRE NORMAN?
This is a season with way too many question marks for Marquette. Pretty much everyone wearing a uniform needs to step up and improve their contributions in one way or another. Veterans need to be better or do more, freshmen need to make an impact, and so on. The table is set for an offseason of hard work from Tre Norman paying off and he shows up on November 3rd against Albany as the player that the coaching staff thought he could be when they recruited him.
Potential Pitfalls
I hate to say it, but Tre Norman already fell into that pit. The odds seem to indicate that we’re going to get a third season from him like the first two, just in this case with at least two of the freshman possibly zipping past Norman in the playing time pecking order. He’s already deep into the possible problems that he could encounter this season, so the good news is that he can only climb out of the pit, not fall any further deeper into it.
A career low in minutes, either as per game (8.2, falling below last year’s 8.9) or total (246, below last year’s 304). A career low in three-point shooting percentage, which is shocking, because Tre Norman had to beat last year’s 18.8% and somehow found a way to shoot 11%. A career worst turnover rate of 26.5%, continuing the trend line from 14% as a freshman to 20.5% in 2024-25. A career worst defensive rebounding rate, falling below freshman year’s 11.7%.
Two DNP’s, his first in the regular season since missing one game in Big East play in his freshman year. His first DNP at all since not playing in Marquette’s NCAA tournament games against Colorado and NC State. Single digit minutes in 20 of his 30 appearances.
The nicest thing we can say about Tre Norman’s third season at Marquette is that he was a slightly positive impact on the defensive end of the floor. Filtering for top 150 opponents and removing garbage time, the Golden Eagles were two points per 100 possessions better on the defensive end of the floor with Norman in the game. The problem is that the math says that Shaka Smart couldn’t let Norman play anything resembling extended minutes. Mix that turnover rate and that three-point shooting percentage together, and you get Marquette’s offense getting more than six points worse per 100 trips down the floor while Norman was amongst the five on the court. +2 on defense and -6.5 on offense equals a drag of 4.5 points/100 possessions, and thus you see exactly why Tre Norman was as unplayable as we saw in 2025-26.
BEST GAME
Back-to-back layups, one of which should have been an and-1 for a perfect shooting night, a rebound, and two assists on the road against Villanova, with both buckets coming at critical spots for Marquette in what ultimately turned into a 77-74 loss at The Finn. The buckets came as part of a 15-3 Marquette run that ended up with the Golden Eagles up nine with six minutes to go. Can’t fault Norman for the collapse and the loss, but he chipped into giving MU a chance to win, and that’s something that we didn’t get much of a chance to say in his time on campus.
SEASON GRADE
We wanted to see Tre Norman turn into a rotation player for Marquette this season. That didn’t happen. As somewhat expected, we got more of what we saw in his first two years with the Golden Eagles. For whatever reason, this never worked out for Norman or for head coach Shaka Smart. I have to give Norman a 3 as a season grade — he did actually play in nearly every game, just not enough to be a rotation guy — and wish him the best at UW-Milwaukee next season.
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