If you were making a list of things that you liked about Marquette men’s basketball’s visit to Purdue on Tuesday night, you’d need a pretty big piece of paper to write it all down. Fantastic start, quality response to the Boilermaker response to said start, great rebounding, an amazing David Joplin performance in the second half, and that’s just the immediately obvious things.
Finishing out the game? Yeah, that wasn’t good at all.
Marquette coughed up a 12-0 run over a nearly five minute stretch that lasted until there was less than a minute left, and that’s how Purdue took a three point deficit and turned it into a nine point lead with 47 seconds to play.