Sunday’s season ending loss for Marquette men’s basketball had three stages.
The first stage was the first nine-ish minutes of the second round of the NCAA tournament. With 12:24 left in the first half, Joey Hauser hit two free throws to stake Michigan State to an 18-5 lead. That’s actually worse than it sounds because Stevie Mitchell snagged a steal five seconds into the game and scored a transition layup five seconds after that. 18-3 after that up through Hauser’s freebies, so that’s bad.
The second stage was the entire rest of the first half as Marquette said “hey, wait, this sucks, let’s stop this right now” and closed the remainder of the opening session on a 23-15 run to trail by just five at the break.