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Marquette entered the BIG EAST title game hoping to make history for becoming the second team to win back-to-back championship titles since the conference’s reformation in 2014.
Instead, the Golden Eagles witnessed DePaul history. The Blue Demons hit 16 threes — one short of a BIG EAST Tournament record — and set the record for points in a BIG EAST Tournament title game en route to DePaul’s third conference tournament crown in five years and a 98-63 win over the reigning champions.
A Natisha Hiedeman fastbreak layup gave Marquette an early 2-0 lead, but that was the Golden Eagles’ only lead Tuesday night.