MU women at the BC today vs UW @ 2

[muwarrior87]

Come and support the MU women at the BC!! For every person in attendance over 4,000, Terri Mitchell is donating a dollar to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee. Help out the kids and show some support for our women's team!

[TallTitan34]

36-27 Marquette at half.  Ellis with 21.

[larrym]

Women win 67-53.  Let's make it 2-0 for basketball on 12/8.

[77ncaachamps]

Props to the chicks for beating Ms. Badger.

Ellis went off...can't wait for Monfre to do the same! 

http://www.madison.com/tct/sports//index.php?ntid=257550

MILWAUKEE - Junior Krystal Ellis scored 31 points to lead Marquette to a 67-53 upset of No. 25 Wisconsin Saturday afternoon a nonconference game in front of 4,327 spectators at the Bradley Center.

The shooting guard scored 21 in the first half on 9-of-14 shooting and shot 50 percent from the field (10-of-20) overall.

Ellis was named to the preseason Big East Conference team and is the only returning starter for Marquette (2-0), which won a program-record 26 games last season and reach the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The Badgers did little to stop Ellis' hot shooting in the first half. Wisconsin guards Janese Banks and Teah Gant struggled with the task of containing Ellis. Late in the first, Ellis connected on 3-of-3 shots from 3-point range.

"The fact that she got hot from 3 right away in the first half was frightening for us, to be honest," said Wisconsin coach Lisa Stone about Ellis, who averaged 18.0 points per game as a sophomore last season.

The Golden Eagles won four straight in the intrastate rivalry against the Badgers (1-1), whose last win against Marquette came in 2001.

Ellis attributed her success in the first half to the screens set by the Golden Eagles.

"My teammates were setting good screens," Ellis said. That was an emphasis before the game, to make sure we execute the plays (and) setting great screens. My teammates were actually getting me open, so that's why I was wide open a lot."

Senior guard and Big Ten Conference preseason player of the year Jolene Anderson scored 21 points and had 10 rebounds for the Badgers (1-1), who were ranked by The Associated Press for the first time in five years.

Anderson guarded Ellis for the majority of the second half and kept her in check, as Ellis only shot 1-for-6 from the field in the second.

Banks, a Wisconsin senior, was the only other player in double-figure scoring for either squad, finishing with 14 points.

The Badgers, who committed 29 turnovers, pulled within seven points with 2 minutes, 29 seconds left in regulation. The Golden Eagles scored 25 points off Wisconsin turnovers in the win.

Marquette hit 9 of 10 free throws with 1:03 to go, and Ellis padded the Golden Eagles' lead with 6 of 6 foul shots. Ellis finished 8-for-11 from the free-throw line in the victory.

Senior forward Svetlana Kovalenko grabbed 11 rebounds and scored 3 points for the Golden Eagles, who shot a woeful 20 percent from the field in the second half (7-of-35).

Anderson led the Big Ten in scoring last season and averaged 19.3 points per game, but the Golden Eagles made sure the standout worked for every shot she attempted. She finished 8-of-18 from the field and was 1-of-4 from beyond the arc.

"Going into the game, Jolene is such a great scorer, we wanted to throw many people at her. ... The whole point was she's incredibly good, let's make her work
for every point," Marquette coach Terri Mitchell said.