It took a lot of doing, a lot of effort from a lot of moving parts, but at the end of the day, it was Marquette 85, St. John’s 77, on Senior Night at Fiserv Forum. The Golden Eagles wrap up the regular season with a record of 19-11 overall and 11-8 in the Big East. That’s good enough for a tie for fifth place in the league as well as the tiebreaker to give MU the #5 seed in next week’s Big East tournament.
As it should on Senior Night, the game started with Marquette’s seniors making the plays: Darryl Morsell scored on the first possession of the game, Greg Elliott got to the line twice in transition with one of them coming on a three-point attempt, and Kur Kuath swatted a Joel Soriano shot as St.