The first three games of the Marquette men’s lacrosse season looked an awful lot like “quality team fighting hard against teams that are probably better them by a solid amount.” Two close losses followed up by scoring more goals in 30 minutes against Georgetown than the Hoyas had given up in their first three games combined. Lots of reasons for optimism, I thought, as the Golden Eagles went into Saturday’s game against Providence.
And then they only scored eight goals in 60 minutes against the Friars, falling by a score of 12-8. Marquette is now 0-4 on the year, and because that’s how the schedules are going this season, they are 0-4 in Big East action after facing four of the five opponents in the league.