MU Women's Basketball Thread

[Warriors4ever]

I was following the game on the Gameday app, was very happy to see them win, especially after being down.

[The Sultan]

Count me as another lurker that enjoys reading your thoughts. I only caught the end of today's game.
Did they play well?
Prospects going forward?

Agreed. I read this topic all the time but just don't have much to add.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I was following the game on the Gameday app, was very happy to see them win, especially after being down.

I'm appreciative for the reports typing this from the women's crazy basketball state.

App notified me that we were losing in the first half.  Glad to see the ladies pull out the win.

[Marquette Fan]

Count me as another lurker that enjoys reading your thoughts. I only caught the end of today's game.
Did they play well?
Prospects going forward?

I don't really know how they played as I couldn't see most of the game due to work - was so bummed they didn't have an evening game.

Prospects are good going forward assuming no big losses in the transfer portal. 

Glad to see Volker could play yesterday - had no idea how bad her injury in the BET was.  I would have hated to see her career end with an injury.  Charia Smith wasn't in uniform yesterday - not sure what's up with her but she didn't play a ton this season either.

They travel to James Madison on Sunday for their next tournament game - James Madison earned a 1 seed in the tournament.

[Marquette Fan]

I'm appreciative for the reports typing this from the women's crazy basketball state.

App notified me that we were losing in the first half.  Glad to see the ladies pull out the win.

I don't know how I'd handle all the blowouts if I was a UCONN fan - would get bored of that I think.  But they do support their women's bball in Connecticut - I admire that.

I saw MU was down by 10 at the half and next time I got a chance to check the score they were only down by 1 at the end of the 3rd quarter - was pleasantly surprised to see that.

[Warriors4ever]

Ok so three of us were at the Fiserv for the NCAA game but keeping track of the women's team on the app and ESPN, really too bad they couldn't pull it out in the OT.
I understand that yesterday UConn was shooting three's while up by more than 60- really poor of them, IMO.

[GOO]

Two things:
I appreciate the women's team updates. I check them whenever there are new posts. Looks like MU  made a solid to great coach hire. The volleyball coach hire also is a proven coach - which I wouldn't expect for MU - maybe the non-revenue sports budgets have ticket up a bit from times past. 

UConn: they need to keep running their offense so I don't have a problem with them shooting threes. All teams continue to run their offense regardless of the score, hopefully with many of their B players sprinkled in. Need to continue to prep the team and players for the hard games to come. If they pounded the ball down low many would complain about bully ball and that would target one or two opposing players who'd be in foul trouble quickly as would the subs. 

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

Always appreciate Marquette Fan's posts and look forward to offseason recruiting and other WBB news updates.

Turned on the Alabama-Maryland game back in the 4th quarter. Now in double OT. Terrific game.

[Marquette Fan]

This is a good sign - https://www.instagram.com/share/_cA8x7zIV

[yamarama]

Marquette is one of more than a dozen schools that has reached out to Iowa transfer Aaliyah Guyton. 5'7 reserve Freshman guard. 5ppg. 16mpg.

Guyton was one of the best players in Illinois out of Peoria before she tore her ACL 15 months ago. She rehabbed and she eventually became a valuable reserve player on a Rd of 32 Iowa team this season.

Daughter of former Brazilian national team player/WNBA player Adriana Mafra, and AJ Guyton (Indiana/NBA)

Out of high school, she chose Iowa over Illinois, Nebraska, Michigan State, Pittsburgh.

[yamarama]

Marquette is one of two dozen schools that have reached out to Zoe Best, the OVC Freshman of the Year, at Southeast Missouri State. 5'10 guard averaged 14 pts and 5 rebounds

[yamarama]

DePaul made it official with Jill Pizzotti this morning.


Elsewhere in the Big East, 2nd Team Guard Maddie Webber from Villanova, is in the portal and she does have representation. Averaged 13.3 ppg this season as a Sophomore.

Big East school with players in the portal:

Xavier has 7.
St. John's has 2.
Seton Hall has 2.
Providence has 1.
Georgetown has 2.
DePaul has 7.
Butler has 6. 1 committed to Georgetown.(Carter)
Marquette has 0.
Creighton has 0.
UConn has 0.
Villanova has 1.

[MU class of 65]

Does anyone know who Cara is recruiting from the class of 2026?

[MU class of 65]

Next year we should be very good. Ten returnees that have a lot of minutes among them. The following year we lose 6. That's why the class of 26 is important to future team development. There are a lot of girls is that class in Wisconsin and Illinois who are outstanding.

[yamarama]

Next year we should be very good. Ten returnees that have a lot of minutes among them. The following year we lose 6. That's why the class of 26 is important to future team development. There are a lot of girls is that class in Wisconsin and Illinois who are outstanding.

Some 2026 include:

Adaline Sheplee (Rice Lake)
Natalie Kussow (Arrowhead)
Emma Close (Tosa East)
Leah Nordin Shawano (committed to Wisconsin)
Emma O'Brien (Lyons Township)
One from Libertville and another from Bolingbrook in 2027 class.

Many in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Upper Midwest. MU has one 2026 commit from Michigan.

[yamarama]

Some additionalnames that Marquette has reached out to in the portal:

Lily Hansford, 6'2 Junior Iowa State Forward (originally from Green Bay)

Ashley Sofilkanich, 6'3 Bucknell Sophomore Forward

Lova Lagerlid, 6'1 Colorado Freshman combo guard

Keslyn Secrist, 5'10 Indiana State Soph guard

Sarah Williams 6'4 Wisconsin Junior Forward

[MU class of 65]

Any interest in Stella Sakalas , Nazareth Acedemy ?

[MU class of 65]

She plays club with Wisconsin Lakers , same club as Natalie Kussow.

[yamarama]

Any interest in Stella Sakalas , Nazareth Acedemy ?

Yes, MU is recruiting her.

[MU class of 65]

I have seen her play several times, she is not flashy , but can do everything on the court to help a team win. Nazareth played Arrowhead in January and Stella was outstanding in a Nazareth win.

[MU class of 65]

Our three loses to UConn don't look too bad after the 34 point beating of an elite team in UCLA.

[panda2.0]

Marquette is one of more than a dozen schools that has reached out to Iowa transfer Aaliyah Guyton. 5'7 reserve Freshman guard. 5ppg. 16mpg.

Guyton was one of the best players in Illinois out of Peoria before she tore her ACL 15 months ago. She rehabbed and she eventually became a valuable reserve player on a Rd of 32 Iowa team this season.

Daughter of former Brazilian national team player/WNBA player Adriana Mafra, and AJ Guyton (Indiana/NBA)

Out of high school, she chose Iowa over Illinois, Nebraska, Michigan State, Pittsburgh.

How did you enable the chat gpt function through scoop?

[Marquette Fan]

Our three loses to UConn don't look too bad after the 34 point beating of an elite team in UCLA.

We only lost to UCONN twice this season as we only played them twice - Villanova got the honor of losing to them 3 times this season 😀.  I expect them to win in another blowout tomorrow over a pretty good South Carolina team.

[yamarama]

Marquette picked up a transfer commit from Jordan Meulemans.

A 6-0 guard from De Pere, WI, She played two seasons at Butler before being sidelined with a knee injury this past season. She averaged 8 points a game as a Sophomore including 43% from 3 on 144 attempts in 23-24.

https://x.com/jmeulemans21/status/1910460624263643524?s=46

[MU82]

A sniper - I like it.