The Marquette men’s basketball team made enough plays to pull out a win in its season opener.
Behind the second-half performances from senior guard Tyler Kolek and junior forward Oso Ighodaro, the Golden Eagles defeated the Radford Highlands by a score of 79-69 Monday night at Fiserv Forum.
“When we were at our best we were really good and connected on the defensive end,” head coach Shaka Smart said. “There was a couple of times where we put ourselves in a position where we could have really broken the game open but we didn’t make the next few plays after that.