The Marquette Golden Eagles edged St. Francis-Pennsylvania 75-68, despite 15 turnovers and poor defense.
Marquette came out of the gates with excellent 3-point shooting, hitting five of their first seven 3-point attempts. As a result, the Golden Eagles had a dominating 15-7 early lead.
“The shots were just there, and that’s how it’s going to be for us because we have a lot of shooters,” guard Andrew Rowsey said. “Any night we can shoot a lot of threes or not shoot a lot of threes, so it was just the way the game was going tonight.”
“We really wanted to get (the ball) into (Luke) Fischer, but the threes presented themselves,” head coach Steve Wojciechowski said.