For 30 minutes on Sunday, maybe a little bit longer than that, it appeared that Marquette women’s basketball had everything they needed to take a run at knocking off #8 UConn Huskies and handing the Huskies their second conference loss in nearly a decade and the second of the week.
At the end of the third quarter, right at the horn, Jordan King got a bucket to drop and MU led UConn, 47-45, with 10 minutes to play. Based on what happened next, it would seem apparent to me that legendary head coach Geno Auriemma said something to the effect of “how far out of the top 10 do you want to drop after losing to Villanova earlier this week?