Marquette walked away with a 76-69 win over the University of Texas-El Paso Tuesday night, but it wasn’t exactly the prettiest result.
“We won ugly,” head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “A lot of teams would’ve lost today. It was a classic trap game. You come off a big win, everyone knows you have Wisconsin coming up and you want today to be easier.”
With five minutes left, the Miners were within two possessions of the Golden Eagles.
Marquette tightened its defense, however, not allowing a field goal for more than three of the last five minutes.