Overview
- Marquette improved to 6-10 overall and 1-4 in Big East play, while Xavier fell to 9-7 and 1-4 after the one-point finish in Milwaukee.
- The Golden Eagles led by as many as 13 before Xavier grabbed its first lead inside two minutes, but a Nigel James offensive rebound set up Ben Gold’s go-ahead dunk with 48 seconds left.
- Royce Parham scored a team-high 14 points, Chase Ross added 12 with nine rebounds but committed eight turnovers, and James and Gold chipped in 10 apiece.
- Xavier’s Malik Messina-Moore scored 22 points as the Musketeers rallied behind 6-of-10 second-half three-point shooting and 10 Marquette turnovers that produced 14 points.
- Marquette guard Sean Jones was listed out on the Big East availability report with a left foot injury, and the win marked the program’s first conference victory of the season.