Late Free Throw Helps Marquette Top No. 20 Seton Hall 73-72
Marquette showed it doesn't have to take shots at a strangely high rate to beat a quality rival. 안전놀이터
Greg Elliott made a tiebreaking free toss with 1.8 seconds left, and Marquette endured a long final part dry spell to beat No. 20 Seton Hall 73-72 on Saturday for its fourth consecutive triumph.
Darryl Morsell scored 26 focuses and Justin Lewis added 18 for Marquette, which had dominated its last three matches by shooting 55.9% however expected to battle through misfortune to endure this one. The Golden Eagles made only one bin in the initial 8 1/2 minutes of the last part to waste a noteworthy lead prior to energizing late.
"The best thing for our group is our folks played through certain difficulties, some misfortune, battled through a tad of dissatisfaction when the ball wasn't going in and kept on monitoring," Marquette mentor Shaka Smart said.
The Golden Eagles (12-6, 4-3 Big East) likewise profited from a lucky call.
The game was tied at 72-all when Elliott inclined forward around the 3-point bend and drew a foul on Seton Hall's Bryce Aiken. As Seton Hall mentor Kevin Willard communicated his disappointment with the call, authorities investigated replays and decided Elliott was fouled while endeavoring a 2-point shot.
Willard declined to remark on the call after the game.
"The ball tracked down its direction to Greg," Smart said. "Greg worked really hard making and worked really hard getting fouled."
Elliott made the main free toss to put Marquette ahead. His subsequent endeavor ricocheted off the edge - Smart said after the game the miss was deliberate - and Seton Hall's Jared Rhoden bounced back and called break with 1.5 seconds left.
Seton Hall (11-5, 2-4) at first seemed to submit an infringement by running all over the pattern prior to endeavoring an inbounds pass however was allowed a subsequent opportunity. Shrewd said it was on the grounds that an authority said ahead of time that the Seton Hall player could make those strides on the gauge.
The resulting inbounds pass from Seton Hall's Alexis Yetna went around 25 feet and fallen through the grip of Tyrese Samuel before Lewis snatched the ball as time lapsed.
Morsell said the Golden Eagles showed the amount they picked up during their 0-3 beginning to Big East contest. Marquette's three meeting misfortunes were chosen by a sum of 23 places, including a 75-69 twofold extra time rout against Creighton.
"I think we as a whole sort of felt that aggravation collectively and we would truly prefer not to feel it no more," Morsell said. "So we simply attempt to stay together to make winning plays toward the finish of the game and do how we must dominate matches."
Marquette required that tirelessness in the end minutes.
The Golden Eagles followed 68-67 when Lewis drove and neglected to get a foul call with under two minutes left. Yetna then, at that point, made a bin to make it 70-67 with 1:36 left while Lewis was lying on the opposite finish of the floor in clear torment.
Be that as it may, Elliott sank a game-tying 3-pointer 12 seconds after the fact and Lewis hit a go on bushel with 41 seconds left. Aiken, who scored 28 focuses, attached the game by sinking two free tosses with 31.2 seconds remaining.