Madison fell to Marquette Thursday Feb. 6, battling to the end at Nielsen Tennis Stadium before falling 4–2.
Wisconsin trailed 3–2, with only two matches left to play — court two had Badger Gabriel Huber matched up with Marquette’s Luis Heredia Gomez, and court six had Badger Robert Krill against Stefan Dragovic.
Wisconsin needed both matches to win whereas Marquette only needed one. As the Huber-Gomez match moved into a tie-breaker set, the fans grew silent. Huber and Gomez exchanged a rally of groundstrokes, the ball just gliding over the net, until Gomez — a tall and powerfully built Spaniard — managed to put enough oomph on the ball and Huber could only return it into the net.