The Marquette Golden Eagles (10-5, 1-2 BIG EAST) lost to the No. 1 Villanova Wildcats (15-1, 3-1 BIG EAST) on Saturday night in the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia by a final score of 93-81.
Future Marquette fans may see that score someday and will probably make the mistake of assuming that the game was close. It wasn’t.
That final score looks respectable solely because Marquette went on an 18-2 run over the last four minutes and 43 seconds of the game, well after the result had already been decided and Villanova eased up. Before that stretch, Villanova led 91-63, a margin far more indicative of the disparities between the two teams.