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- | ===== Recap ===== | + | ===== Marquette Survives Red Storm ===== |
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+ | That was the overriding theme of Marquette' | ||
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+ | Having played almost half the game without a foul-plagued [[Jimmy Butler]] and been "not good at all" in the second half in coach [[Buzz Williams]]' | ||
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+ | The fifth-seeded Golden Eagles will now face the fourth-seeded and No. 10 Villanova Wildcats - a team that beat MU twice earlier in the season by a total of four points - in a quarterfinal matchup scheduled for 1:25 p.m. Thursday. | ||
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+ | "A lot of our wins haven' | ||
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+ | "But we're getting wins, and you can't take those wins away from us - no matter how it's getting done. When it's all said and done, there' | ||
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+ | MU led by as many as 14 points in the first half in building a 27-17 lead at intermission. | ||
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+ | The Red Storm also had no early answer for Hayward, who had 12 points and six rebounds while playing all 20 minutes in part to make up for the loss of Butler, who sat all but the opening 2 minutes after picking up two fouls. | ||
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+ | St. John's came out of the locker room looking like a different team, though, and by the 10-minute, 47-second mark had pulled even with MU. | ||
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+ | [[David Cubillan]] hit a three, which halted the Red Storm' | ||
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+ | The game was tied three different times over the next 4 1/2 minutes until a Paris Horne free throw gave St. John's a 53-52 lead with 2:22 left. | ||
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+ | Horne' | ||
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+ | After a strange sequence in which [[Darius Johnson-Odom]] was denied a trip to the free-throw line when the officials ruled he had been passing rather than shooting, MU was given the ball out of bounds. | ||
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+ | The tradeoff turned out great for the Golden Eagles. | ||
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+ | Hayward freed Cubillan from pesky Malik Boothe with a screen, took the pass from [[Maurice Acker]] and knocked down a huge three-pointer from the left wing to put MU ahead, 55-53, with 1:11 remaining. | ||
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+ | "I ran the play, it was supposed to be Lazar, but they cheated and I was wide-open," | ||
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+ | Hayward made another hustle play on St. John's ensuing possession when he dived on the floor to tie up Kennedy. | ||
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+ | With the possession arrow pointing the Golden Eagles' | ||
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+ | St. John's came up empty on the other end again and then had to foul Butler, who missed the front end of the bonus with 19.7 seconds on the clock. | ||
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+ | After a bevy of misses, Kennedy scored off one of his own from in close to pull the Red Storm to within 57-55 with 4.1 seconds remaining. | ||
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+ | MU got the ball inbounds to Acker after a St. John's timeout, but he too missed the front end of the bonus with 3.4 seconds left. | ||
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+ | The Red Storm rebounded, but with Acker hounding Boothe the whole time, the best shot the diminutive guard could get was desperation three from well past half court that fell short. | ||
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+ | Acker finished with 10 points for MU, which shot 57.9% in the second half to best the 54.8% effort by St. John' | ||
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+ | "Just so happened at the end we were able to make two big plays on both ends," Williams said. " | ||
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+ | MU will have to be awful good with Butler today in order to beat Villanova, which will be playing without injured forward Taylor King. | ||
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+ | It was the Wildcats who beat the Golden Eagles on a buzzer-beating layup in the quarterfinals of last year's tournament, a memory Hayward wants to erase. | ||
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+ | "Every time we lose a close game to a team, we feel like we want to get them back," said Hayward. " | ||
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