Before Marquette senior Matt Heldt walks onto the Al McGuire Court at Fiserv Forum for his last Marquette-Wisconsin game, the Neenah, Wisconsin, native had to make a difficult decision: which family members get tickets.
“I had to take some of my family members out because I had so many last year,” Heldt said. “I think I’ll see their reciprocation of that (at Christmas).”
But Heldt and the Golden Eagles will have a far tougher task than which family members get tickets. Marquette will need to slow down 6-foot-10 senior Ethan Happ.
Happ is averaging a team-high 17.