MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Marquette men's basketball coach Shaka Smart is three weeks into the season with a young team still finding its identity, but he remains committed to the program's development-focused approach that has produced NBA talent like Oso Ighodaro and Tyler Kolek.

"We're still becoming for sure," Smart said. "The last couple of years, we lost some major, major foundational cultural connectors on our team, and we have some young guys on our team that were part of those teams, and now we're asking them to do that. So that's a work in progress."

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