Marquette have made danced its way into the Sweet 16 for the second time in program history , but it couldn’t keep its playoff run alive as it fell to the No. 1 overall seed Texas Longhorns in four sets (14-25, 13-25, 25-19 and 17-25) Thursday afternoon.
“Congratulations to Texas, terrific team, amazing environment and great place to play,” Marquette head coach Ryan Theis said. “I’m just really proud of our team for the year that they’ve had. Excited so many are coming back.
“Our last three, four weeks was standing room only over 3000 (fans) at home against Creighton, a sell out conference championship and back-to-back over 2000 fans for us hosting the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament and then 4000 fans here.