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-===== Acker Leads A Laugher For Marquette  =====
-{{  men_s_basketball:01_06_10_cubillan.jpeg|}}If ever there were a team in need of a laugher, it was these Marquette Golden Eagles.
-Having emerged from the torturous stretch that saw them open Big East play with nail-biters against four consecutive top-12 teams, and losing three of those by a combined five points, they took out their frustrations in the form of a 93-63 beat-down of the Providence Friars on Sunday afternoon at the Bradley Center.
+===== Wring Out The Hoyas =====
+{{  men_s_basketball:01_06_10_cubillan.jpeg|}}Sometimes it takes a special individual effort to snap a team out of a funk. On Wednesday night, [[David Cubillan]] was more than happy to oblige.
-[[Maurice Acker]] scored 23 points, besting his previous high of 14 despite a broken tooth suffered in a scrum for a loose ball in the first half, and [[Darius Johnson-Odom]] added 22 points as MU lit up Providence to the tune of a season-best 61.4% from the floor (35 for 57) and 61.9% from beyond the arc (13 for 21).
+The senior guard knocked down all six of his three-point attempts en route to a season-high 18 points as he helped the Marquette Golden Eagles knock off the 12th-ranked Georgetown Hoyas, 62-59, at the Bradley Center.
-"Any game you win in the Big East by 30 is huge," said Acker, who went 6 for 6 from three-point range, matching [[David Cubillan]]'s performance against Georgetown on Jan. 6.
+[[Lazar Hayward]] added 12 points and 11 rebounds, and [[Jimmy Butler]] contributed a crucial defensive stop and two free throws in the waning seconds, but it was Cubillan's display from beyond the arc that was the story of the game.
-"Night in, night out, teams are good. You're not going to play any weak team in the Big East. I would say it gave us a lot of confidence going into DePaul."
+Reminiscent of [[Jerel McNeal]]'s 7-for-7 outing from three-point range against Cincinnati a little over a year ago, the Golden Eagles needed every one of Cubillan's six as they finally pulled out their first Big East victory after a pair of gut-wrenching losses to West Virginia and Villanova last week.
-The storyline for the game was established in an 11-minute span in the first half, when the Golden Eagles (11-6, 2-3) scored on 11 consecutive trips down the floor and 15 of 16. They hit 8 three-pointers in that stretch, including 4 by Johnson-Odom, to take a 37-19 lead with 6 minutes 21 seconds remaining.
+"I was ready to play, everybody was ready to play," said Cubillan, who finished two points shy of tying his career high of 20 points he set against Pittsburgh as a freshman. "We had a good week of work. We all wanted to get the win, so I'm just happy we won and now we've got to start to get ready for the next one."
-Johnson-Odom didn't just do his damage from long distance, either, as he also got to the rim at will. His spinning, hanging layup at the 3:24 mark gave him 20 first-half points, besting his career high by two as MU did virtually anything it wanted against Providence (11-7, 3-3).
+The win, which helped MU (10-5, 1-2 Big East) avoid its first 0-3 start in Big East play and its first 0-3 start to a conference season since 1998-'99, should serve as something of a confidence boost as it heads out to face Villanova on Saturday for the second time in a week.
-"It's good, but it's always up to my teammates, and what we do on the defensive end that gets me going," said Johnson-Odom, who received his first Big East start as coach [[Buzz Williams]] went with a three-guard lineup for the first time since Dec. 5.
+It was anything but certain as time wound down in the second half, however. After Georgetown (11-2, 2-1) took its first lead of the game at 38-37 on the heels of a technical foul whistled on coach [[Buzz Williams]], the two teams exchanged the advantage five more times before MU finally began to assert some control.
-MU caught a huge break when Providence's best player, Jamine "Greedy" Peterson, was ejected for a flagrant foul after elbowing [[Joseph Fulce]] in the mouth with 2:28 remaining in the half.
+The Golden Eagles went up, 51-50, on [[Dwight Buycks]]' second three of the game - set up by Cubillan, no less - with 6 minutes 20 seconds remaining and stretched it to 58-55 on a fallaway jumper by Buycks with 3:06 left and the shot clock winding down.
-The two players had to be separated in the wake of the play, and while Fulce was assessed a technical for jawing, the Golden Eagles clearly got the better end of the deal as Peterson entered the game averaging 17.6 points and 10.6 rebounds per game. He already had nine points at the time of his ejection.
+Georgetown got a layup from Greg Monroe, and Hayward hit a pair of free throws with 57.5 seconds left to make it 60-57. An Austin Freeman layup pulled the Hoyas to within 60-59, and they wasted little time fouling [[Maurice Acker]] on the ensuing inbounds play.
-"I didn't even see it, and then I'm hollering and screaming at Joe, and Joe said, 'Coach, he hit me,' " said Williams, who picked up his 50th victory as a head coach.
+Acker missed the front end of the bonus situation with 29.6 seconds left, leaving the door ajar for yet another possible heartbreaking finish. But Butler wouldn't let that happen, as he challenged Freeman at the rim at the other end, forced him into a miss and then corralled the rebound before being fouled.
-The Golden Eagles eliminated any remaining mystery by going on a 12-2 run out of the locker room in the second half to open their advantage to 57-31, and led by as many as 34 points late in the game.
+With his free-throw struggles in late-game situations this season fresh in everyone's minds, the junior forward calmly stepped to the line with 7.5 seconds remaining and drained both with a timeout sandwiched in between.
-[[Lazar Hayward]] also scored 22 points for MU, while Vincent Council's 24 led Providence. It was the first time the Golden Eagles had three players finish with 20 or more points since Jan. 31 of last season against Georgetown.
+"I always knew I could step up and make them," said Butler. "Coach was saying it was going to come back."
-"They beat us in all areas - offense, defense and rebounding," said Friars coach Keno Davis. "You could tell that their preparation time for everything that they did, that's great coaching and great scouting. You see their close games against the top teams in the Big East - that's not a fluke. They were able to hand it to us today."
+Georgetown inbounded after Butler's second free throw and eventually got the ball to Chris Wright, who entered the game averaging 24.3 points per game in his last three. He launched a long three-pointer from the right wing, but it fell well short of the rim, sparking a mad celebration among the 15,984 fans in the stands and a jubilant MU team on the court.
-That short-handed MU was able to do so was even more impressive considering the additional lumps it took in practice during its bye week.
+"I think the same lesson we had against West Virginia and Villanova we had tonight, and we're thankful for the result," said Marquette coach Buzz Williams.
-"It's been a scrambled week," Williams said. "(Dwight) Buycks got poked in the (left) eye on Wednesday, couldn't open his eye until this morning. Been to the optometrist, the emergency room. Blood clot in his eye, they had to cut it open like a boxer. Joe tweaked the tendons in his ankle on Wednesday.
+Cubillan, who hit four of his threes in the first half in helping MU to a 32-30 halftime lead, was also clutch on the defensive end. He helped hold Wright scoreless in the second half, while Hayward and Butler helped limit the 6-foot-10 Monroe, one of college basketball's top big men, to nine points on 4-for-6 shooting, while forcing him into four turnovers.
-"I'm glad that the bye came when it did, but it had been a long time since we had played. We were never able to really get in a true rhythm because we couldn't play 5-on-5, and I was very concerned about that."
+"They have some guys that can make three-point shots, and obviously Cubillan was terrific today," said Georgetown coach John Thompson III. "Anyone who's watched them play knows they could easily be 3-0 right now. Their two losses weren't indicative of where they were, and we knew they would be that much more hungry."
-One potential and unexpected bright spot came when [[Junior Cadougan]] suited up and took part in warm-ups. Believed to be out for the season after rupturing his right Achilles' tendon on Sept. 18, the freshman point guard from Toronto has made significant enough progress that Williams might consider playing him at some juncture.
+Freeman led the Hoyas with 20 points.
-"He's progressing," said Williams. "Never want to make a decision unless it's most fair for the player. He could have played today. I want to continue to see how he progresses, and what's best for him and what's best for us."
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