The Marquette Golden Eagles, returning to the top 25, put up a tournament resume building effort in knocking off 7th ranked Connecticut 82-76 at Fiserv Forum Wednesday night. Marquette returned to the rankings at #23 in this week’s Coaches Poll and showed why with strong play down the stretch to take down one of the favorites in the Big East. Oso Ighodaro led the Golden Eagles with 19 points as Marquette improves to 14-4 overall and 6-1 in the Big East. They are just a half game behind conference leaders Xavier and Providence who are both 6-0. The 11th ranked Musketeers won their 10th straight beating Creighton 90-87 Wednesday night and Marquette will travel to Cincinnati to face Xavier on Sunday.
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