The end
Marquette men’s basketball’s 93-73 loss in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to South Carolina doesn’t look great on paper. But with 6:20 to play, it was a seven-point game, and no team had ever led by double digits. Marquette took the first lead and carried it all the way into the second half. The Gamecocks took over the game in the second half, but Marquette stuck around, always taking one step forward and two steps back. Though the final box score looks brutal, it was anybody’s game before the under four timeout hit.