After a couple of hiccups to start the year -- one relatively minor, one of the GERD on 'roids variety -- YOUR precocious Marquette Golden Eagles hadn't shown their age in running off a nine-game winning streak to enter the 2016 BIG EAST season. But tonight served as a stark reminder that these young Eagles still have a lot of growing up to do, as Marquette was ravaged by the Pirates of Seton Hall, 83-63, at the Bradley Center.
Energy was never the issue tonight; if anything, Marquette came out a little too geared up, with early turnovers and a silly missed-layup-and-foul sequence from Sandy Cohen III putting MU in a 7-2 hole.