Sometimes, when you have a young and inexperienced team with a first year head coach, you can look at a six point loss in double overtime to a team holding onto one Associated Press top 25 vote and say “y’know what, they fought like hell, it just didn’t go their way.”
That is not the story of Marquette’s 75-69 loss to Creighton on New Year’s Day. This time, the Golden Eagles get no credit for fighting their way into a double overtime situation and ending up on the short end of the stick. Everyone in that locker room, coach and player alike, has to look at this one and say “yeah, this is our fault and we should have done better, there’s no excuse for what happened.