With BIG EAST Tournament implications on the line Saturday night, the Marquette men’s basketball team defeated St. Johns 85-77 at Fiserv Forum in the teams BIG EAST regular season finale.
“I was really happy for our seniors, to win on senior night against a really good St. John’s team that would just not go away,” head coach Shaka Smart said. “Our guys hung in there and continued to battle. I thought in our last game against DePaul we got disconnected and that never happened tonight.”
With the win, Marquette clinches the No. 5 seed and a first-round bye in the BIG EAST Tournament.