Okay, look.
I was at the McGuire Center for this game, watching the entirety of it on my iPad, since Marquette men’s basketball tipped off on the road against Xavier an hour before the women’s basketball game started. This means that I watched the first half of Marquette/Xavier on mute, which might have not been the worst way to go about things, as neither team looked particularly great on offense. For example, no one scored at all for the final 2:29 of of the half, and so the two teams went to intermission with Marquette holding a 27-22 lead. Neither side got to an effective field goal percentage of even 45% in the first 20 minutes, and the two teams split 13 turnovers as evenly as you can, 7-6 with MU getting the extra giveaway.
Halftime lined up pretty perfectly with the anthem and starting lineups, so I missed nothing, and the second half started off mostly the way that the first half was going. 12 total points scored in the first four minutes, the two sides alternating scores….. but the last bucket before the 16:00 mark was a David Joplin layup that started off a brief Jop flurry. He got fouled shooting a three a bit over a minute later, and that’s a 6-0 MU run just from Joplin alone. Marquette up nine…