You can look at those final two plays and say “ah, well, MU came up big when it mattered” except Illinois looked totally lost for the final five minutes of the game. Hawkins’ putback dunk with 5:33 to go was the last field goal of the game for Illinois. but they gave the Illini absolute hell for five and a half minutes. Sure, Marquette didn’t do themselves any favors what so ever with all of their problems on the offensive end. The next bucket for anyone was Tyler Kolek’s layup. It’s a one point game, 66-65, with 2:31 to go. Three more free throws for Marquette, as Illinois just kept putting the Golden Eagles on the line. Two minutes goes by without Illinois scoring at all. Ah, well, we showed some life, that’s what’s important here.įive straight free throws. Hawkins jammed in a putback dunk to make it eight. A three from Frazier - yes, again - clipped a Marquette run and put Illinois back up six, 61-55. Illinois didn’t get another field goal for three minutes and forty-five seconds. Okay, well, we had our fun, 10:14 to go, Brad Underwood is gonna go into his locker room after the game and say “boy, we got lucky to come of there with a W, guys, we need to work harder if you want to win games in the Big Ten.” Three from Coleman Hawkins, boom, 12 point lead, 58-46. Wait, no, there’s a trap door here, three from Frazier, three from Frazier, down nine. Jacob Grandison hit a three to put Illinois up, 34-33, as part of a 9-0 run by the visitors, and MU was down five all of a sudden. The Golden Eagles - and by “Golden Eagles” I specifically mean Justin Lewis here - scored the first two buckets of the second half, and, uh, Marquette’s up five on the #10 team in the country. The rest of the half was close, and MU went into the break up one, 28-27, and hey, minor victory, honestly. and Marquette immediately went on a 13-4 run to take a 23-21 lead with 4:22 left before intermission. About a minute later, Andre Curbelo committed his second foul of the game, this one of the offensive variety, and Illini head coach Brad Underwood put his star guard on the bench. It looked kind of bad in the first half when Trent Frazier hit a three to put the Illini up eight, 17-9. Might have felt like 20, sure, but the lead was never more than 12, and that’s a good place to jump into the actual recappery here. Marquette is 3-0 on the year and Shaka Smart is undefeated as head coach of the Golden Eagles.īy the way, Troy’s tweet is inaccurate. lDl3QXllas- Troy Machir November 16, 2021
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