Saturday night a casual fan at Valley Fields would have a difficult time identifying which men’s soccer team was second in the conference and which was going through an enormous scoring drought.
Marquette stunned Xavier, a team receiving votes in the NSCAA Coaches’ Poll, 4-1, to keep the Golden Eagles’ BIG EAST hopes alive. It’s yet another chapter in an unpredictable season which includes losing to the team picked to finish last in the conference and most recently hanging with a Creighton and beating Xavier, the two teams at the top of the conference.
“I told you this is a crazy team at the beginning of the year,” head coach Louis Bennett said.