No. 9 Marquette men’s basketball (9-2) was given quite the wake up call Saturday night. Relinquishing a 13 point lead and giving up 46 paint points in an eventual 71-63 loss to then-unranked Dayton.
The last time the Golden Eagles had symbols crashed in their face this hard in the regular season was just under a year ago in their 69-62 loss against conference foe, Butler — a team that would eventually get bounced in the first round of the NIT.
So, who is more fitting than Butler (7-4) to be Marquette’s conference lid-lifter opponent Wednesday night?