Entering play, Golden Eagles Alumni guard Dwight Buycks did not embrace being the top seed.
“I actually hate that we have the number one seed,” he said at the team’s mini-camp. “We’re not going to get relaxed because we have the number one seed. We actually want to act like we have the number eight seed.”
For a moment Sunday, it appeared as though the eighth seed would be the ones to take down the top-seeded Alumni, as the Majerus SLU Crew got out to a 20-12 lead early in the first half. Marquette was shooting 3-for-15 from the field after shooting 62 percent the night before.