Our offensive possessions after the Hawkins 3 with 10:14 remaining to go up 12:
Hawkins TO
Curbelo missed fade away
Curbelo missed layup, which he rebounded and missed again
Plummer TO
Grandison TO (Charge)
Curbelo missed jumper
Frazier made 3 (61-55)
Curbelo makes 2 FTs after getting bailed out on a bad jumper (63-55)
Damonte missed jumper followed by Hawkins slam (65-57)
Curbelo missed layup
Curbelo missed layup
Curbelo missed layup
Curbelo TO and foul
Curbelo makes 1 of 2 from the line (66-62, 3:04 remaining)
Curbelo missed 3, rebounded by Damonte, missed jumper by Frazier
Grandison missed 3 pointer
Frazier missed 3 pointer
Curbelo missed jumper
Frazier TO (kick ball that wasn't)
Curbelo TO to end it.
By my count, 12 of our final 20 possessions ended in Curbelo's hands with only 3 points to show for it. 2 of those came from FTs on a questionable shot that he was bailed out on by the foul call and the other FT he hit was when he nearly turned it over and fell on the Marquette player. I don't mean to blame Curbelo as I think BU and staff should have reined in the hero ball.
I'm going to echo others on let's not overreact. Remember, our Illini that managed to get a 1 seed in last year's tournament lost to a less than impressive Mizzou team in a game in which we had Ayo AND Kofi on the court.