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Marquette lost both games against the Providence Friars last season.
Last year’s Golden Eagles-Friars game in Providence, Rhode Island delivered one of the stranger moments in recent Marquette basketball history.
Temperatures above 70 degrees and high humidity, coupled with condensation on the court from the hockey rink below, created dangerously slippery conditions for the players.
Marquette managed the conditions as well as possible but could not manage its lead. Foul trouble crippled Marquette, which surrendered a 12-point lead with 7:20 left to lose, 73-69. Providence finished the game on a 21-5 run and the Golden Eagles did not make a field goal after that 7:20 mark.