Marquette ThoughtZ™

[RichZ]

1. Diarra opens the scoring with a three.
2. Timeout at 16:24 with the good guys leading 14-4 thanks mostly to being 4 for 4 from three. After Diarra's three to open the game, Stewart hit 3 threes in a row. But that 9 points would prove to be his only points of the night.
3. Solo gets involved in the early 3 point onslaught with a corner three at 12:27.
4. Refs doing their best to keep Marquette in the game midway through the half. 4 fouls -- all shooting fouls -- on UConn, none on Marquette. Luckily, they seem to only make one of every pair so far.
5. 8:35, we finally get a pair of foul shots. Samson makes 'em both.
6. AK's free throws at 3.34 make it a 20 point margin -- 40-20.
7. Got kind of sketchy last few minutes of the half, and the lead was down to 13 at the half.
8. Half time stats... Shooting percentage breakdown.. UConn 56,50,100 to Marquette 32,30,50 at the half. Boards 22-11, dimes 9-1, blocks 4-1. Johnson, Reed and Diarra with 2 fouls each, Mahaney has 3. Marquette has attempted 20 FTs to our 8. They are 10 of 20, we are 8 of 8.
9. Johnson draws first blood in 2nd half.
10. Our passing into the interior sucks tonight. Responsible for half our turnovers.
11. One screw-up after another, and the lead is down to 9 at 16:50
12. Back up to 14 a minute later
13. Finally missed a FT. Reed missed both, then got a bogus foul call at the other end. Lead back down to 9.
14. Just when I'm starting to think Mahaney's doing a good job at the backup point, he commits 2 turnovers in a row.
15. I wonder if we've ever won a game before where we had 25 turnovers.
16. Speaking of wondering, when was the last time you saw a team have nearly twice (15) as many boards at the offensive end as at the defensive (8) end? Marquette did that last night.
17. While Alex's three still wasn't falling (1 for 4) he was still the 2nd most productive Husky on the floor last night, putting up a dozen more points on FTs and 2 pointers, while also collecting 4 boards, 3 dimes, 2 steals and two blocks.
18. Solo is the obvious choice for POG with 25 points and 10 boards. No other player on either team had more than 5 boards. He also did a respectable job bringing the ball up court a number of times. He went 7 of 9 from deep, plus 4 foul shots, but he missed both his layup attempts.
19. The announcing team was unlistenable, so from about 6 minutes in, I watched with the sound off.

 

[upstater]

#19!!!!!!

 

[uconngb]

#19!!!!!!

Love me some Gus Johnson!!!

 

[TXHuskyFan]

Love me some Gus Johnson!!!

I usually do as well but they were very pro-Marquette Saturday night.

 

[uconngb]

I usually do as well but they were very pro-Marquette Saturday night.

Eh, it was a blowout they were trying to give people a reason to keep watching