Road wins are X-tra special

[Norm]

Wojo raving about Heldt post-game.

[BCHoopster]

Matt is just bigger, older and smarter on the D end. Ed is a small center, really happy for Matt, he deserved some playing time, nice left hand lay-up and rebound. Need subs to play big, Bailey and Matt did, congrats

[Archies Bat]

It is nice to be able to mix and match Theo, Ed and Matt

[swimmer]

Wojo raving about Heldt post-game.

Yeah.  That was pretty moving.  Wojo's voice started to crack a couple times.

[tower912]

Wojo raving about Heldt post-game.

As he should.  Ed has gotten dominated the last 3 games.  Matt came in and fought his butt off today.

[The Sultan]

Matt will be the first Wojo high school recruit to finish his eligibility at MU.

[skianth16]

Matt is just bigger, older and smarter on the D end. Ed is a small center, really happy for Matt, he deserved some playing time, nice left hand lay-up and rebound. Need subs to play big, Bailey and Matt did, congrats

Matt's effort and willingness to play a smaller role this year are both great. He earned his minutes today for sure. I'm not sure I'd give him the SOTG nod like some, but still a solid performance even if the box score doesn't show it.

[NotAnAlum]

Wow.  Great win.  I said in a thread earlier in the week that we were about to find out what it was like to be the make/break game of the other team's season.  X played out of their minds for the first 15 minutes.  Crowd was crazy.  But MU played composed, like a top 15 team is supposed to.  I felt at the half that we were ok being tied, with X playing so well.  But then X turned it on again.  But our guys kept their heads in the game and eventually our superior talent and shot making carried the day.  They proved something to me today.  On to Butler and I'm ready to "enjoy the ride".

[blikemike2]

Great win.

1. Theo got at least 4 ticky tack fouls. HORRIBLE.
2. Bailey is a lock down defender, please play him more. and go shoot 500 corner 3's BB 
3. What more can you say about Triple H

[forgetful]

Big takeaway for me. The officials were dreadful. Tons of really bad calls and missed calls. We kept our composure. Xavier, despite being the beneficiary of the vast majority of those bad calls/missed calls, lost composure multiple times. Coach got T'd up for one of those.

Honestly, they could have gotten called for multiple T's.

Composure in the face of adversity is a tough talent to teach. Our kids had it in spades.

[TVDirector]

9.  Liked Gottlieb getting into the nitty gritty of Marquette's offensive sets and their screening. 

Doug Gottleib = Glenn Quagmire
Giggety

[JakeBarnes]

Team took a lot of punches in the face today.  Got through it and was able to make plays.

Horrible officiating though. Even people who could give two sh*ts about Marquette at the bar I was at were complaining on our behalf.

[Marcus92]

Xavier threw everything they had at Marquette. We were down 11 in the second half and came back to earn another tough win on the road. MU now has its best overall and conference record since 2009 (the senior season of the Three Amigos). Going 3-1 on the road in the Big East is no small task. Huge games from Markus, Sam and Joey.

[1SE]

Props as well to Chartouney - that was a stone cold drive with Markus and thro on the bench.

His steal was huge - but then that pass to Markus was terrible. If he can stop the boneheaded TOs hell give us a solid 10 going forward.

Crowd was crazy but it will be like that the rest of the year. But I won't complain about being everyone else's super bowl!

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

I thought this may have been one of Markus' best team oriented games.  Took what was available- tried to find Sam and Joey in the offense.  It looked great. 

[CountryRoads]

Love the way our team is being coached and the moves wojo is making in game. A+

The team is calm and confident down the stretch and I had no doubt they would come through today. Smart and solid basketball.

[We R Final Four]

Huge win..this win takes a little pressure off now, for me at least.

Wojo was awesome today.
Bad/ineffective Sacar......Gotta ride BB.
Theo fouls...Bad Ed.....Gotta ride Matty.
Giving Joe some chances.

We seem to be getting to a point where we can absorb bad games by a player or two (by having bathe backups ready to roll) and keep our collective heads above water so the Big 3 can win the game.

[jsglow]

Final Four was right.  The strength of our team is our team.  Brendan and Matty epitomized that today.  We won because our big 3 did their job and our deeper bench guys did their jobs.

Even Joseph.  He certainly contributed on modest minutes.

[Daniel]

13. Each successive game the officiating gets worse. Once you a Marquette player leaves your hisfeet or holds your his  arms straight up its a foul.

[MU82]

Huge win..this win takes a little pressure off now, for me at least.

Wojo was awesome today.
Bad/ineffective Sacar......Gotta ride BB.
Theo fouls...Bad Ed.....Gotta ride Matty.
Giving Joe some chances.

We seem to be getting to a point where we can absorb bad games by a player or two (by having bathe backups ready to roll) and keep our collective heads above water so the Big 3 can win the game.

Superb observation, WRFF.

Yet another very strong game for Wojo. He's about winning. He'll play whomever he needs to for that to happen. Several excellent plays out of time-outs. Some outstanding offensive sets. Glad he's our leader.

I agree with others who talked about this being a pretty impressive win considering all that occurred: We're down double-digits on the road, opposing fans are going wild, X is practically kicking the ball into the basket, we can't get a call (Markus especially was mauled repeatedly), Theo gets 3-4 ridiculous calls against him, we get nothing from Theo's backup, etc. ... and yet we still win the game.

This is a tough-minded, well-coached, pretty darn talented team.

That's 7 straight ... gonna go to Butler and win ... then back-to-back home victories over the Johnnies and Nova will give us 10 straight and put us in 1st place.

We are ... Marquette!

[dajudge]

Big takeaway for me. The officials were dreadful. Tons of really bad calls and missed calls. We kept our composure. Xavier, despite being the beneficiary of the vast majority of those bad calls/missed calls, lost composure multiple times. Coach got T'd up for one of those.
Amen
Terrible timing for his team on Steele's T
Marshall should have been T'd on same play and earlier on a foul call on him

Honestly, they could have gotten called for multiple T's.

Composure in the face of adversity is a tough talent to teach. Our kids had it in spades.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Something I noticed today. Sam may be the better pure shooter of the Hauser bros. but Joey has way better range.

Some of those three pointers he stepped into were like 25 footers.

[manny31]

Anybody have a line on a replay of the game? I couldn't watch it live.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

My only disappointment of the game was Ed. Marquette needed him bad today.

I'm wondering if the ankle was tweaked or if he's just not fully recovered yet. He was a lot more effective against big men earlier in the season.

[lawdog77]

Bulletin Board material if we see them in NYC? "I felt we played some of our best ball," point guard Quentin Goodin said. "They hit some wild shots. The basketball gods gave them what we call some lucky baskets, but I felt we played good."