Marquette women’s lacrosse did their part over the weekend. The Golden Eagles went out to Indianapolis and came back with two wins over Butler: 18-5 on Friday and 16-10 on Sunday.
But Marquette knew going into the weekend that wouldn’t be enough to get them into the Big East tournament. They needed help. They got help from league leader Denver, who swept Villanova and thus allowed Marquette to move into a tie for fourth place with the Wildcats at 4-6 in conference action this season. With the Golden Eagles and Wildcats splitting their head-to-head meetings this season, that meant things had to drift down the tiebreakers list, and so Marquette’s fate was in fact decided by UConn and Georgetown over the weekend.