If the saying is “death by a thousand paper cuts,” then YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles experienced 999 paper cuts across the final 20 minutes and four seconds of Tuesday night’s 84-81 victory over Fresno State.
Yes, they won the game. Yes, it was their fifth straight win. Yes, they’re 7-2 on the season.
They also had no business winning this game after leading by 22 with 37 seconds left in the first half, which, I admit, makes no goddamn sense whatsoever.
Neither did the second half of this basketball game. After a relatively quiet first half from FSU big man Terrell Carter, he exploded for 15 of his game high 21 in the second half as Marquette had absolutely zero answer for him over and over and over and over and over and over again.