Officially, Marquette is not in first place in the Big East right now. In fact, after drawing with #19 Xavier in their league opener, technically they’re in a four-way tie for eighth place which actually doubles as a tie for last place in the conference. However, MU is one of seven teams in the Big East that have not lost yet so far this year. That’s a kind of a tie for first place if you’d like to think about it that way.
While you can make arguments about bigger offensive explosions from the team — and coming out of a game where you were actually shut out, that’s easy enough to do — I think you could make an argument that Saturday’s 0-0 contest with the nationally ranked Musketeers was Marquette’s best performance of the season.