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Marquette struggles down the stretch result in third straight loss

After falling to Xavier in its BIG EAST opener Saturday, Marquette men’s basketball suffered another setback Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum falling to the UConn Huskies by a score of 78-70.

Prior to the game, the team announced that graduate student guard Darryl Morsell would miss the game after entering health and safety protocols.

“We knew we were going to be missing Daryl but our guys did a nice job trying to step up for him,” Marquette head coach Shaka Smart said. “This is unfortunately going to be part of this season around the country in college basketball.