It took an additional five minutes of basketball, but Marquette squeezed out an 86-83 overtime victory against Eastern Illinois on Monday night. This was Marquette’s first game back on the mainland following the Maui invitational.
“I’ve been to Maui five times and I have been to Maui with teams that have eventually won a National Championship and historically your first game back on the mainland is a real struggle,” Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “It pretty much stuck to that script for us tonight, but our kids showed character. A lot of teams would have lost tonight and our kids didn’t.