[Cracked Sidewalks] Marquette Stomps ND 92-66

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Marquette Stomps ND 92-66

Marquette scored its first bucket immediately after the opening tip, and never looked back.

Jerel McNeal led MU with 18, but the Warriors had 5 guys in double digits, and the stud of the game was clearly Lazar Hayward.

Lazar poured in 17 on 6-11 shooting, 4 steals and a team high 11 rebounds, a quality double-double in 28 minutes. His performance was superlative, though the rest of the team had a couple dozen highlight reel moments themselves.

Marquette had no answer for ND's Luke Harangody, who easily poured in 29 points. With 15 minutes left, a guy in the row behind me said "That guy is going to hit 30 points." My answer: If we're lucky. -- Harangody is the real deal, and Burke, Ooze, and occasionally Trend Blackledge, "guarded" him to no avail, getting whistled 13 times.

Fortunately, when Marquette did have the ball, they found the net, hitting 46% for the night, and an huge 50% from 3-point land. MU also stole the ball 17 times, and had a great 23 to 13 Assist/TO ratio.

Trend had a quality outing, however, going 3-3, 6 points and two blocked shots in 14 minutes. On the post-game show, Crean gave credit to his wife Joani, who told him to play Trend more. Who knew Joani was the evil genius behind Tom?

Of note, Notre Dame had a couple thousand fans in attendance in the "sold out" Bradley Center. I'd bought tickets for a group of friends, who ended up next to a large Domer section. My good friend, Matt, said it was OK to be so close to them, because "you could see their tears better."

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[spiral97]

know where I can find a play by play for this game?  ESPN, SI, and Yahoo don't have any up and the wiki isn't updated with it yet.

If not, anyone have a decent recap of the dunks tonight so I can update the dunk-meter?

[IrwinFletcher]

Caption contest for the picture above:

JUMP BALL

[mu_hilltopper]

Not quite. Try "JUMP BALL??!?!!???!"

[spiral97]

Notre Dame player Luke Harangody kills two birds with one stone by doing some in-game practice for his leading role as Maria in UND's production of West Side Story.

[spiral97]

know where I can find a play by play for this game?  ESPN, SI, and Yahoo don't have any up and the wiki isn't updated with it yet.

If not, anyone have a decent recap of the dunks tonight so I can update the dunk-meter?

Found one: http://und.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2007-2008/game-15.html#GAME.PLY
Sad that I had to go to the loser's site to find one.