11s are wild for Barro, Marquette in win

Ousmane Barro had 11 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 11 Marquette to a 67-47 win over Rutgers on Wednesday night.

The Golden Eagles (21-4, 8-2 Big East) opened the conference season with losses to Providence and Syracuse, but are unbeaten since, winning eight straight games.

Rutgers (9-15, 2-9) has lost three consecutive games and eight of nine.

Jerel McNeal, Wesley Matthews, David Cubillan and Dan Fitzgerald each scored 10 points as Marquette had little trouble in a tuneup before a key game Saturday against No. 22 Georgetown.

The Hoyas have won six consecutive Big East games and trail the second-place Golden Eagles by only a half-game.

Rutgers has had trouble scoring and rebounding all season and continued to struggle against Marquette. The Scarlet Knights made only 17-of-48 shots (35 percent) and were outrebounded 40-28.

Marquis Webb led Rutgers with 12 points and JR Inman added 11.

Inman hit a 3-pointer to bring Rutgers within 40-34 with 14:38 left.

Marquette, though, scored the next seven points to take a 47-34 lead on Cubillan's 3-pointer with 12:20 to go. The Golden Eagles led by double digits the rest of the game.

Dominic James, Marquette's leading scorer, had his second consecutive subpar scoring game, tying a season-low with six points on 1-of-7 shooting. In the Golden Eagles' 69-62 victory over Providence on Saturday, he also was held to six points.

James, though, had seven assists without any turnovers in 34 minutes.

Marquette used a 12-2 run to open a 29-18 lead, capped by McNeal's 3-pointer with 4:40 left in the first half.

Rutgers, which is 0-15 when trailing at halftime, held James scoreless until he hit a pair of free throws with 72 seconds left to give Marquette a 32-23 halftime lead.

Marquette is in second place in the Big East, trailing No. 7 Pittsburgh (9-1) by a game and leading Georgetown (7-2) by a half-game.

Fitzgerald started for the first time in five games for Marquette. He made 4-of-14 shots in 30 minutes.

Rutgers' junior Ollie Bailey, the team's leading bench scorer at 4.2 points, was held out of the game for making an obscene gesture to Connecticut's fans during UConn's 61-50 overtime victory over the Scarlet Knights Saturday.

Inman returned to the Rutgers lineup after missing the UConn game to attend his grandmother's funeral.