The Quick & The Dirty: Seton Hall 69, Marquette 64

With 2:29 left in the first half, Royce Parham hit a three-pointer for YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles. It was the team’s eighth three-point make on 11 attempts to that point of the game, and combine that with Seton Hall shooting just 43% from the field heading into Parham’s make, Marquette found themselves up 37-28 at the Prudential Center. A nice first half, heck, a very good first half against the Pirates’ outstanding defense, and Nigel James hit two free throws in the final minute to make it 41-33 at intermission.

And then Seton Hall opened the second half on a 12-3 run to take a 45-44 lead. Marquette would lead just one more time, off a Chase Ross layup right after that run ended. SHU answered with the next two buckets of the game, and the Golden Eagles were officially chasing the game after leading by nine just nine game minutes earlier.

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This isn’t to say that Marquette didn’t have a chance to win the game. Seton Hall never led by more than five points, and a Nigel James layup with just over four minutes to go tied the thing up at 60. It was tied against at 62 and against at 64 with just 1:46 to go. AJ Staton-McCray hit a three with 1:18 left, and that obviously left Marquette with more than enough time to have a crack at a win.

But the Pirates tangled up Nigel James just inside the free throw line, Adrien Stevens hustled the ball out of his hands instead of shooting a mostly open three, and Royce Parham coughed it up. Marquette even got another chance in transition with less than 15 seconds left, but James went to the rack and missed, even with Stevens floating down the sideline in theory waiting for a kick to shoot it. Didn’t happen, no bucket, SHU rebound, and that’s that.

That’s how Marquette let their chance to win at the end slip away from from them, but their real chance to win slipped away by not approaching the second half with the intensity of a thousand exploding suns. Instead, they let Seton Hall punch them in the face,…

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Publish date : 2026-01-31 19:58:00

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