The Minute After: Marquette

Thoughts on a 96-73 win against the Golden Eagles:

While Indiana was favored, this one was still billed as a battle of equals, two emerging, promising teams sizing each other up in this young college basketball season.

But it’s the Hoosiers coming out of the contest utterly triumphant, as Marquette is left to lick its wounds. Indiana blasted out of the gate, never really taking its foot off the gas, en route to a comfortable 23-point win against the No. 24 Golden Eagles. Those first five minutes were relentless. The Hoosiers coughed up Marquette and made the Golden Eagles pay in transition, adding some 3-pointers to boot. Indiana threw the first punch. Hard.

While Marquette steadied its ship…