Before the Dec. 29 loss to St. John’s, Marquette was ranked 56th in the NET. The defeat dropped them to 66th place. Beating Villanova moved Marquette back to 54th place. Losing to Seton Hall didn’t really affect anything in that regard, but losing to Georgetown did. According to Game Scores from BartTorvik.com, this is the worst performance of the entire season brought the Golden Eagles back to 60th place, and other results around the country have them in 62nd place as I type this Monday afternoon.
I can’t tell you for sure where Marquette would be in the NET if they had made seven of the 14 layups they missed against the Red Storm, And did not give up this 17-0 run in the first and second quarters against the Pirates, AND didn’t give up a 19-0 run to start the game against the Hoyas. I’m pretty sure they’d be better off than No. 62, and I feel comfortable guessing they’d be somewhere in the top 50. Somewhere in the top 50, the Golden Eagles are at least in discussion for an NCAA Tournament bid.
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Instead, Skylar Forbes just had lunch during the last two gamesshooting 4 of 20 from the field, 1 of 9 from behind the arc and committing six turnovers. Instead, Halle Vice was effectively benched against Georgetown, ultimately playing just 24 minutes while shooting 1 of 5 and grabbing just four rebounds, which was a far cry from his 32 and 11 performance in the win over Villanova or even his recent streak of four straight double-doubles and five in six games.
Instead, unless the Golden Eagles run the non-UConn table the rest of the way, their chance of making the NCAA Tournament is pretty much zero right now. That’s the difference between a 5-4 record in the Big East and an 8-1 record. Seven layups and just no 18 minutes of snooze in two different games.
Big East Game #10: at St. John’s Red Storm (15-5, 5-4 Big East)
Date: Wednesday January 21, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. Central
Location: Carnesecca Arena, Jamaica, New York
Streaming: Peacock
Live stats: Dissemination of statistics
Bluesky Updates: @AnonymousEagle
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Marquette is 23-14 all-time against St. John’s. The Golden Eagles have won 10 of the last 14 meetings and 14 of the last 19, but the Red Storm winning in Milwaukee earlier this season means they have won three of the last four meetings.
The 14 missed layups are what gets the attention, but the fact is St. John’s led Marquette for a large part of this first meeting between the two teams. The Red Storm didn’t do anything particularly special in this game, shooting just 45% from two and just 35% on their 17 three-point attempts. Five different players reached double figures, but none had more than the 14 scored by Beautiful Waheed on 4-of-14 shooting. Considering how the last two went for Marquette, the fact that St. John’s couldn’t do anything special in beating them is a bad sign for a rematch.
You could almost say St. John’s used Marquette’s win to bounce back from its nearly 40-point loss to Villanova a game prior. No one will blame the Red Storm for a 45-point loss at UConn, but ever since that Huskies game, the Johnnies have been battling something fierce. 49-39 at home against Butler doesn’t sound like fun. 66-64 on the road against Xavier seems less fun, especially considering it was 61-57 Musketeers with 2:50 left and 63-62 Xavier with 50 seconds left. They got out of Cintas thanks to buckets from Sa’Mya Wyatt with 40 seconds left and a Shaulana Wagner jumper with what the box score says was a second to play, but there was enough of that second that Xavier had a chance to tie it at the horn.
But they’re not bad games.
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The bad game is GGeorgetown 59, St. John’s 34. The Johnnies scored, per quarter, 8, 11, 6 and 9 points. They shot less than 29% from the floor and just 2 of 23 from distance. The Hoyas led 47-25 at the end of the third quarter.
How the hell did Marquette lose to this team, 14 missed layups or not? What the absolute fuck is this?
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