How badly can a game start? It was like Xavier was doing an experiment to answer that question today. With the score sitting at 2-2, there was a blown call to give RaShid Gaston a foul on a moving screen. He said something and got a tech. Action came to the other end, where Coach Mack said something and got a tech. Then Marquette got hot. When the dust settled, Xavier was down 21-2 less than 6 minutes into the game.
The second half got even more bizarre. Xavier never closed it to single digits, and Marquette eventually hit enough threes to walk away from the Muskies.