No. 16 Marquette men’s basketball (23-8, 12-6 BIG EAST) fell to Georgetown on Senior Day 86-84 at Fiserv Forum, marking the Golden Eagles’ fourth consecutive loss. Here are three takeaways from the regular-season finale:
Offense takes better care of the ball
In Marquette’s losses to Villanova, Creighton and Seton Hall, the biggest problem was the number of turnovers. MU combined to commit 58 turnovers in those three games.
Marquette had only five turnovers Saturday afternoon against Georgetown.
“The last few games, we’ve had way too many turnovers,” Bailey said. “Today it was a whole (different) story because we did take care of the ball, but we just didn’t come up with a win.