MU Women's Basketball Thread

[Marquette Fan]

Never mind about the DePaul game.  Marquette is on a pause now due to a recent positive Covid test in the program.  The games against DePaul, Creighton (1/6) and Vilanova (1/9) have been postponed - https://gomarquette.com/news/2021/1/1/womens-basketball-muwbb-pauses-basketball-activities.aspx

Hope everyone stays healthy...

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

[Marquette Fan]

Yes it really does .  Kind of figured Marquette was going to have to go on a pause at some point this season but was hoping it wouldn't happen...

[Marquette Fan]

There is mention of a possible Big East bubble at some point in this article - https://www.ctpost.com/sports/article/Women-s-basketball-notebook-Big-East-in-15832069.php

I wonder at what point they seriously consider it.  On the Women's side, schools with Covid shut downs so far are:

-Seton Hall - 2 so far during the season (and coach Tony Bozella was hospitalized due to Covid also)
-Georgetown - they were shut down for so long they've only played two games this season and had no non-conference games
-St. John's - missing at least one BE game on 1/6
-Xavier
-Butler
-Marquette - will miss at least 3 league games
-UCONN - they were paused during non-conference play
-Villanova - they were shut down briefly due to an opponent having a Covid case

That would leave just DePaul, Providence and Creighton as not pausing activities during the season due to Covid yet (each have missed games due to an opponent having Covid issues but that's different of course).

[Marquette Fan]

So Georgetown-Villanova got canceled shortly before game time yesterday due to concerns about contact tracing.  I'm guessing the issues were with Georgetown as the Big East just announced today that they are moving the originally scheduled 2/13 Villanova at DePaul game to tomorrow afternoon (both teams had games canceled this weekend due to Covid issues for their opponent) -

https://www.bigeast.com/news/2021/1/3/womens-basketball-bigeastwbb-announces-schedule-change.aspx

I think you have to be prepared for lots of last minute schedule changes this season as we've already seen and I'm guessing it will continue to be that way.

[Marquette Fan]

Marquette is back practicing now and set to travel to Seton Hall and St. John's for games on Friday and Sunday - Friday's game is rescheduled from just before Christmas when Seton Hall had to shut down for the 2nd time this season due to Covid.  Sunday's game at 1P central time will be on FS1.

It sounds like they have enough players to get the game in but may be missing a player or two - guess we'll have to see who plays this weekend:  https://twitter.com/JohnLeuzziMU/status/1349120660673613824

The Big East has had Georgetown (2nd time), Marquette, Xavier (2nd time this season) and Creighton shut down recently for Covid.

Villanova and Providence just announced today they are going on pause due to Covid.  And that caused a UCONN-Seton Hall game to be canceled to play it safe as UCONN just played Providence over the weekend.  DePaul is now the only Big East Women's Basketball team who hasn't shut down at some point this season due to Covid.

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

That's funny about DePaul women's team since the men have been the exact opposite.

[Marquette Fan]

Marquette Women's Basketball is on TV today - they are at St. John's at 2P EST/1P CST on FS1.  They are already a bit short handed due to Covid with key reserve Liza Karlen being out and only sending 8 players out East.  And I"m guessing LVK may be out today after hitting her head hard on the court in their game on Friday.

[shoothoops]

Marquette Women's Basketball is on TV today - they are at St. John's at 2P EST/1P CST on FS1.  They are already a bit short handed due to Covid with key reserve Liza Karlen being out and only sending 8 players out East.  And I"m guessing LVK may be out today after hitting her head hard on the court in their game on Friday.

Haven't been able to watch yet, but, 72-61 win for Marquette at St. John's in Queens.

[Marquette Fan]

Haven't been able to watch yet, but, 72-61 win for Marquette at St. John's in Queens.

Monster games from Selena Lott - 30 points on 11 of 14 shooting from the field and Chloe Marotta with 11 points, 14 rebounds and a team high 7 assists.  I was also impressed with Taylor Valladay's play off the bench the last two games - she had 3 steals and 8 points on 4 of 5 shooting from the field today.

MU's freshmen class wasn't on the road trip due to Covid protocols but Liza Karlen is the only one of the 4 frosh who has gotten much playing time so far.  Still no idea what's going on with sophomore Nirel Lougbo who has yet to play this season.

Their next two games are against two of the worst teams in the Big East - Georgetown and Butler - would be  nice to take care of business against them.  They have a lot of games coming up in a short amount of time - 5 games in 8 days between Sat 1/30 and Sun 2/7 including back to back games against UCONN and DePaul.  They are 7-2 overall and 4-1 in the Big East - 13 is the magic number of games to get to in order to be post-season eligible.

[The Lens]

Monster games from Selena Lott - 30 points on 11 of 14 shooting from the field and Chloe Marotta with 11 points, 14 rebounds and a team high 7 assists.  I was also impressed with Taylor Valladay's play off the bench the last two games - she had 3 steals and 8 points on 4 of 5 shooting from the field today.

Chloe has become one of my favorite MU players (men and women) ever.  Good things happen when she's on the floor.

[shoothoops]

Monster games from Selena Lott - 30 points on 11 of 14 shooting from the field and Chloe Marotta with 11 points, 14 rebounds and a team high 7 assists.  I was also impressed with Taylor Valladay's play off the bench the last two games - she had 3 steals and 8 points on 4 of 5 shooting from the field today.

MU's freshmen class wasn't on the road trip due to Covid protocols but Liza Karlen is the only one of the 4 frosh who has gotten much playing time so far.  Still no idea what's going on with sophomore Nirel Lougbo who has yet to play this season.

Their next two games are against two of the worst teams in the Big East - Georgetown and Butler - would be  nice to take care of business against them.  They have a lot of games coming up in a short amount of time - 5 games in 8 days between Sat 1/30 and Sun 2/7 including back to back games against UCONN and DePaul.  They are 7-2 overall and 4-1 in the Big East - 13 is the magic number of games to get to in order to be post-season eligible.

Taking care of business on the road against teams they are supposed to defeat.

They have a nice six game stretch of winnable games coming up, including 3 of 4 at home, to create some space in the league before having to play UConn and DePaul twice.

[Marquette Fan]

Chloe has become one of my favorite MU players (men and women) ever.  Good things happen when she's on the floor.

Yep - feels like she does so many little things well that don't always show up in the Box Score too.  I keep hearing announcers call her a Senior and I'm like - nope - she's a only a junior.

Selena Lott made the Big East honor roll this week - https://gomarquette.com/news/2021/1/18/womens-basketball-lott-earns-third-big-east-weekly-honor-of-the-yearv.aspx

[Marquette Fan]

Vanderbilt becomes the latest Women's Basketball P5 program to end their season early due to Covid concerns:

https://vanderbilthustler.com/37533/featured/vanderbilt-womens-basketball-discontinues-2020-21-season/

Virginia did so also recently and Duke was the first P5 program to do so.

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

Selena Lott was terrific in the game. She did everything! Great to be able to see them on TV.

[shoothoops]

Vanderbilt becomes the latest Women's Basketball P5 program to end their season early due to Covid concerns:

https://vanderbilthustler.com/37533/featured/vanderbilt-womens-basketball-discontinues-2020-21-season/

Virginia did so also recently and Duke was the first P5 program to do so.

The most players Vandy has had all season is eight. They've been trying to play with seven lately.

[MU82]

No. 1 Stanford stunned last night by Colorado, which entered the game with a 5-6 record.

[Marquette Fan]

Selena Lott was terrific in the game. She did everything! Great to be able to see them on TV.

She sure was fun to watch.

They are on FS1 Sunday again for their game at Butler at 1P CST - I'll get one hour of watching of just that game on TV before switching the Packers game on - will have one game going on the TV and one game going on my phone .

[Marquette Fan]

No. 1 Stanford stunned last night by Colorado, which entered the game with a 5-6 record.

Yeah that was a bit of a surprise and Stanford did drop to #5 in the latest AP poll after that loss.  Stanford has had an interesting season so far - they  haven't been able to play or practice on campus since early December due to a Santa Clara County public health department emergency directive from November 28th.  They played one game in Las Vegas instead and are now playing their home games in Santa Cruz, CA.

[shoothoops]

The most players Vandy has had all season is eight. They've been trying to play with seven lately.

Demi Washington shares her myocarditis story:

https://theathletic.com/2333133/2021/01/19/demi-washington-vanderbilt-covid-myocarditis-womens-college-basketball/?amp#click=https://t.co/A4cQNktN4C

[Marquette Fan]

Marquette won easily today as they should have 72-40 with another monster game by Chloe Marotta who scored a career high 21 points on 10 of 11 shooting from the field.  Ben Steele has a nice article on the collaboration between Georgetown and Marquette before the game on other important issues off the court - https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/marquette/2021/01/20/georgetown-and-marquette-womens-basketball-teams-share-calls-unity/4227844001/

[Marquette Fan]

A reminder that Marquette is on FS1 on Sunday at 1P central as they travel to Indy to face Butler who is probably the worst team in the Big East this season.

[Marquette Fan]

Marquette picked up an easy win over a very bad Butler team 95-57 yesterday.  One thing of note is that senior Selena Lott is now only 3 points away from becoming Marquette's 30th 1,000 point career scorer.

They were due to have two home games this week vs. Seton Hall and Xavier but their schedule for this week got turned upside down by Xavier going on a Covid pause for at least the 3rd time this season.  Seton Hall also has to pause for now as they just played Xavier on Saturday.  So Marquette will now travel to Villanova to play them on Wednesday night for their only game this week.  That will help a bit as they were originally due to have 5 games in 8 days between Sat 1/30-Sun 2/7.

Congrats to junior Chloe Marotta for making the BE honor roll after two great games this week - look at her total line from both games - Marotta averaged 14.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in a 2-0 week for the Golden Eagles, highlighted by a career-best 21 points against Georgetown on Wednesday. She shot an impressive 13-of-15 (.867) on the week, including a 10-of-11 peformance against Georgetown.

https://gomarquette.com/news/2021/1/25/womens-basketball-chloe-marotta-named-to-big-east-honor-roll.aspx

[Marquette Fan]

Selena Lott made a 3 pointer in the first quarter tonight and has become MU's 30th all-time 1,000 point scorer.  MU leads 27-14 after the first quarter.  There's a long ways to go but hopefully they can keep playing well and pick up the W tonight.

[Marquette Fan]

MU with a nice win tonight - 95-77.  All 5 starters were in double figures for MU and Selena Lott had a phenomenal game as she passed the 1,000 point mark for her career - she had 27 points, 5 rebounds and an incredible 11 assists.  My favorite stat of the night is they had 27 assists and only 5 turnovers.  MU moves to 10-2 overall and 7-1 in the Big East.

Their game Saturday against Xavier was canceled due to their Covid issues and that might not be a bad thing as they have 4 games next week - Mon at Creighton, Wed at Georgetown, Fri vs. UCONN and Sun vs. DePaul.