Marquette races to 70-52 win over Xavier

A combined 64 points from Markus Howard, Sacar Anim and Joey Hauser helped to power the Marquette Golden Eagles to victory.

Marquette picked up their first Big East win of the season in their 70-52 defeat of the Xavier Musketeers on Sunday morning. The win props MU to 12-3 while Xavier dips down to 9-7 as a result of their loss.

Marquette spent exactly 37:22 in the lead in this game, and Xavier spent exactly... zero minutes and zero seconds leading this game. So this was essentially an end-to-end victory for the Golden Eagles. They only spent 2:55 tied up, with just two occurrences in the game in which the score was evened up. Marquette can feel good about that, and can also feel good about a…