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Article: Golden Eagles soar to new heights
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- March 2, 2003
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Golden Eagles soar to new heights
By TODD ROSIAK trosiak@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel
Sunday, March 2, 2003
It certainly didn't come easily, but for the first time in nine
seasons the Marquette University Golden Eagles have earned themselves
a piece of a league championship.
They did so by posting a 98-87 victory over the Alabama-
Birmingham Blazers on Saturday night at the Bradley Center, clinching
at least a share of Conference USA's regular-season crown in front of
a spirited crowd of 18,315.
Marquette (22-4, 13-2), ranked 10th in the Associated Press'
writers poll and 11th in the coaches' poll, would have won the title
outright had Memphis (20-5, 11-3) cooperated, but the Tigers ...