Marquette shook off a rough start to finish the first half on a 32-9 run and never look back against DePaul on Saturday afternoon. The Golden Eagles finished up with an 83-58 victory over the Blue Demons and move to 3-2 in Big East action and 12-5 overall. DePaul drops to 8-10 with a a 1-4 record in league play.
Not only was the story of the game that massive run by Marquette over the final 8:46 of the first half, the story was Marquette’s three point shooting. The Golden Eagles went 12-20 on long range bombs before intermission, including making nine straight to close the half.