FORT WORTH, Texas — Coming into Thursday’s first-round matchup, the Marquette men’s basketball team sought its first NCAA Tournament win since March 2013.
However, that will have to wait at least another year as Marquette fell to North Carolina 95-63 at Dickies Arena.
“It wasn’t our day. We did not play with the level of violence we needed to on the defensive-end to take away the things that North Carolina wanted,” Marquette head coach Shaka Smart said. “Thought early in the game they (North Carolina) were able to kind of get in the rhythm shooting the ball and then on the offensive end a lot of the good looks we got, we did not make.