After putting together its best regular season in program history, No. 19 Marquette’s stay at the Big East Tournament was short lived.
Entering the day in searching of their first Big East Tournament win, the odds seemed to been in the favor of the No. 2 seeded Golden Eagles: a perfect 8-0 regular season road record and a win already on the season against its opponent No. 3 seeded UConn.
However, Marquette (15-3, 5-1 Big East) fell short of reaching that milestone, as it was unable to recover from an early deficit as UConn (12-5, 4-2 Big East) knocked out the Golden Eagles 17-16 in the Big East semifinals Friday afternoon in Storrs, Connecticut.