A quick look around the Marquette men’s basketball Twittersphere shows plenty of gallows humor about MU’s four-game losing skid. Just ask one student-run satire account or Paint Touches co-founder Mark Strotman.
But around the BIG EAST, coaches are downplaying Marquette’s recent woes. The four coaches who beat the Golden Eagles in the last month all pointed to reasons beyond Marquette performing poorly for the recent string of losses.
“That’s still a very, very good Marquette team,” Creighton head coach Greg McDermott said. “And I’m sure a team nobody wants to see in the BIG EAST Tournament or in the NCAA Tournament.