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With 7:35 left in Saturday’s game, Marquette’s season hung in the balance. The Golden Eagles were down 46-41, in as hostile an environment as you can get in the NCAA Tournament. Let’s Bill Simmons this bad boy and take you step by step look at how the Golden Eagles persevered through a courtside Retro Diary. […]

The Cougars were unable to replicate the historical comeback they had on Tuesday, when they came back from down 25 to beat Iona in the first round. Jae Crowder finished with 25 points and a career-high 16 rebounds and Darius Johnson-Odom added 20 points in the Golden Eagles’ 88-68 win over BYU in the second […]

Marquette was one of two teams to wait an extra 48 hours to learn their second round opponent in the NCAA Tournament. Now that the Golden Eagles know their opponent, the Brigham Young Cougars, they are ready, as a team, to hit the court running. Head coach Buzz Williams spent last night watching the BYU-Iona […]

Marquette had never been better than a five-seed at the Big East Championship. It had never boasted the Big East Player of the Year. It never had two players named first team all-conference since the program entered conference play in the 1989-1990 season. But this season Marquette had it all. It was the consensus No. […]

Q: Any real positives that come out of tonight’s game or was tonight one of those games you’ve got to get rid of right away? Jae Crowder: We got a chance to build on it going into the tournament. Look at the mistakes we made and try to learn from it, so it’s a lot […]

Turnovers and offensive rebounds were the difference in No. 9 Marquette’s 84-71 loss to Louisville in the quarterfinals of the Big East Championship tournament on Thursday night. Marquette (25-7) turned the ball over 26 times and allowed the Cardinals (24-9) to grab 26 offensive rebounds in the loss. Both numbers were a season high in […]