If you watched Marquette women’s basketball’s Friday night game at Villanova, then you spent a lot of time hearing former Villanova head coach Harry Perretta on color commentary saying things like “Marquette deserves to win this game, but they aren’t putting Villanova away” and “If Villanova figures out how to win this game, every single player needs to go to church tomorrow morning.”
To Perretta’s point: The Golden Eagles led by as many as six points in the first quarter, and by as many as eight in the second frame. The third? MU was up six early in the frame and they bounced back from a Villanova rally to tie the game to lead by five before two very late free throws by VU star Maddy Siegrist made it a three point game with 10 minutes left.