No. 3 Marquette men’s basketball — at the start — gave truth to the colloquial notion the first post-Maui Invitational game is a “hangover game.”
For the first eight minutes, the Golden Eagles played sluggish, and allowed the Southern Jaguars to make it a two-point game off back-to-back 3-pointers.
“For sure it’s getting back to the timezone, couldn’t sleep the first couple of days,” junior forward David Joplin said.
But the Golden Eagles eventually woke up, getting their first skunk (six straight defensive stops) and opening the gap to over 10 points, en route to their 93-56 win over the Jaguars Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum.