DOUBLE CHAMPS! #1 Marquette 65, #2 Xavier 51!

HOLY CRAP WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT.

Your final from Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, #1 seeded Marquette 65, #2 seeded Xavier 51! Shaka Smart’s Golden Eagles are the 2023 Big East tournament champions. It is MU’s first ever Big East tournament championship, and just the program’s second ever conference tournament championship after the 1997 Conference USA tournament. Marquette is just the 10th Big East team to win both the regular season conference championship and the conference tournament championship in the same season.

And it wasn’t that close.

Marquette jumped out to leads of 12-2 and 21-4 in the first seven and a half minutes. The lead in the first half would peak at 23 on a Tyler…