You can absolutely walk away from Marquette women’s lacrosse’s two weekend home games against #19 ranked Denver and say, y’know, they almost had them there. One of those “almosts” is a little bit more honest than the other, but if you take the whole picture of every minute played, it’s more true than it’s not.
On Friday afternoon, Marquette went into halftime knotted up with the #19 team in the country at five goals each. They lost 16-6 after Denver scored the next 11 goals of the game. That, obviously, is the not quite very honest “almost.