You can’t say they didn’t fight to their last moment.
The 2023 Maui Invitational Championship game did not work out the way that the first two games worked out for Marquette men’s basketball, as the #4 Golden Eagles took a 78-75 loss to #2 ranked Purdue on Wednesday afternoon. It’s the first loss of the year for Marquette as they fall to 5-1, while Purdue advances to 6-0 on the year.
The game had a few inflection points. The first came when Oso Ighodaro picked up his second personal foul with 14:37 left in the first half while tracking alongside a Purdue player 35 feet from the basket and getting further away and then clonking the guy in the head in the process.