Smash together the old trope of “it’s hard to win conference games on the road” with “Marquette’s offense has struggled over and over this season, especially early in games” with a little dash of “Butler nearly beat St. John’s last time out” and you get what happened in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon.
Megan Duffy’s Golden Eagles found themselves needing to dig out of a 10 point hole early in the second quarter on the road against Butler, but thanks to a complete domination of the second half by super senior Chloe Marotta and a third chance putback by Emily La Chapell with time about to expire, Marquette gets to head back to Milwaukee with a 65-63 victory.