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 {{men_s_basketball:teams_marquette.gif|}} **Marquette 50 {{men_s_basketball:teams_depaul.gif|}} DePaul 51**
-===== Recap  =====
+===== Hounded by Demons  =====
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+Rosemont, Ill. — [[Buzz Williams]] was expecting a battle on Wednesday night at Allstate Arena, and that's exactly what he and his Marquette Golden Eagles got.
+Facing a DePaul Blue Demons team that came in having not won a Big East game since the end of the 2007-'08 season, was playing without its best player and for an interim coach, MU's coach proved prescient as his team twice missed the front end of bonus situations in the final 20.2 seconds and paid the price.
+Mike Stovall's fall-away jumper with 0.7 seconds remaining lifted DePaul to a 51-50 upset of the Golden Eagles, who have dropped four Big East games by a total of six points, with two of those losses coming on dramatic and seemingly improbable shots just prior to the final buzzer.
+"It's almost surreal, honestly, sitting here, because, in a respectful way, you guys are asking me the same questions because it's the same result," a spent Williams said afterward. "I think we've been accountable for what we're trying to do, and we understand the value of every possession, but we didn't finish the game."
+[[Lazar Hayward]] scored 14 points to lead MU (11-7, 2-4), which scored just 18 points in the second half and went scoreless in the final 2 minutes 57 seconds.
+All 14 of those points came in the first half for the senior forward, who was the first to step to the free-throw line with 20.2 seconds remaining with a chance to pad a tenuous 50-46 lead for the Golden Eagles, who were only in the bonus at that point.
+Hayward clanked it, and the Blue Demons rebounded. They got the ball upcourt quickly to Stovall, a junior forward and Chicago native, who hit a tough, fall-away three-pointer from the right wing to close the gap to 50-49 with 9.7 seconds left.
+After a timeout, MU inbounded to senior guard [[David Cubillan]], who was immediately fouled. He, too, missed the front end of the bonus, and the Blue Demons rebounded and again rushed the ball upcourt.
+[[Maurice Acker]] nearly forced a turnover with time winding down, but Stovall somehow corralled the ball near DePaul's bench and hit a fall-away jumper with 0.7 seconds left, sparking pandemonium among the crowd of 10,115 - at least three-quarters of whom were wearing MU's blue and gold.
+The shot initially appeared to be a three, but after a review the officials ruled it was a two. Coming out of the timeout, Hayward tried throwing a full-court baseball pass to Jimmy Butler, but the ball was batted away and DePaul's 24-game Big East losing streak was over.
+Although there was plenty of blame to go around, it was the third time this season MU lost a game due in large part to missed free throws in crunch time
+"People are probably going to think the reason we lost the game was me and Lazar missed free throws," Cubillan said. "That's not the reason why. It shouldn't get to that point. We gave it away."
+Williams, for his part, liked the position his Golden Eagles were in down the stretch, with a pair of seniors stepping to the free-throw line with a chance to ice the game.
+"Maybe it's being hard-headed, but if it was replayed again I'd do the exact same thing - get the ball to Lazar to shoot a free throw, get the ball to 'Cooby' to shoot a free throw," he said. "Even when Lazar missed, I still thought we played that possession the right way.
+"Then we called timeout and we said when they foul, this is exactly what we have to do, make or miss, and that's exactly what we did. He made a great shot."
+MU was absolutely arctic coming out of the locker room to open the second, hitting just two of their first 10 shots.
+The Golden Eagles wound up shooting 35.3% in the decisive second half and just 33.3% (4 for 12) from three-point range after beginning the week leading the nation in accuracy from beyond the arc.
+DePaul (8-10, 1-5), coached on an interim basis by former Wisconsin guard Tracy Webster, was playing without its best player, 6-10 Mac Koshwal, who's been sidelined with a right-foot injury.
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