Well, dang, that was a basketball game.
After a high scoring first half, neither #25 ranked Marquette nor #12 ranked Xavier were able to keep that torrid pace going for 40 minutes, but it was the X-Men finding a way to victory, 80-76, on Sunday afternoon. The loss drops Marquette to 14-5 overall and 6-2 in Big East action, which has them in third place. Xavier is now 15-3 with a perfect 7-0 record in the league, and as the last standing undefeated team, they are alone in first place.
If it was possible to bottle the first three and a half minutes, or at the very least keep that pace going for a full 40 minutes, Marquette would have run away with this game.