Here’s the big question for Marquette women’s basketball right now: How much did Battle 4 Atlantis alter the trajectory of the season?
The Golden Eagles went to the Bahamas with a first round game against the #3 team in the country and a pretty strong possibility of going 0-3 in the tournament even if they are a team capable of getting to the NCAA tournament in March. Instead, they beat the #3 team in the country — and did it without anything resembling a fluke type of performance — and then grabbed onto a Gonzaga team earning votes last week coming off a win over then-#6 Louisville and beat them, too.