After both #19 Marquette and Illinois State beat #25 Illinois in five sets on Saturday, I expected quite the rousing match between the Golden Eagles and Redbirds at the McGuire Center on Sunday afternoon. Two good volleyball teams, one with a little bit more to prove (Illinois State, in this case), than the other, both coming off a long drawn out match the day before, etc., etc., you get the picture.
Nope, not what happened!
Marquette never hit worse than .320 in any of the three sets while never letting Illinois State go north of .