MU Women's Basketball Thread

[Marquette Fan]

Marquette v. Seton Hall on FS1! A pleasant Sunday morning surprise.

Marquette made a nice run in the 2nd quarter after going down by about 8.  McLaughlin is having a nice game.  Still more turnovers than I'd like with 9 first half TO's for MU.  Hopefully they can have a good second half.

[Billy Hoyle]

Marquette made a nice run in the 2nd quarter after going down by about 8.  McLaughlin is having a nice game.  Still more turnovers than I'd like with 9 first half TO's for MU.  Hopefully they can have a good second half.

7-0 run to tie and then gave up an 8-0 run 16-0 run. Getting hurt on the offensive boards, no patience on offense or legit second option.

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

I guess the national TV jinx transcends sports.

[Marquette Fan]

7-0 run to tie and then gave up an 8-0 run 16-0 run. Getting hurt on the offensive boards, no patience on offense or legit second option.

Yeah this was the sort of thing I was worried about.  Too many turnovers and offensive struggles so far this season.  There's a good reason they aren't projected to be an NCAA Tournament team at this point.

[The Sultan]

I guess the national TV jinx transcends sports.

It's a Title IX requirement.

[Marquette Fan]

Sharpshooter Karisa McLaughlin went down holding her ankle in today's game.

Nirel Lougbo checked into the game in the second quarter - her first game action since the 19-20 season.

[Marquette Fan]

Marquette's first game after the Christmas holiday is at UCONN on Wed. 12/29. 

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Marquette's first game after the Christmas holiday is at UCONN on Wed. 12/29.

Debating whether to go

[Mr. Nielsen]

Marquette's first game after the Christmas holiday is at UCONN on Wed. 12/29.

Good luck if the game will even be played.

[tower912]

Looks like it has been postponed.

[Marquette Fan]

Looks like it has been postponed.

Big East release on the cancellation - https://www.bigeast.com/news/2021/12/26/big-east-announces-womens-basketball-schedule-change.aspx

They will attempt to reschedule the game.  Marquette's next scheduled game isn't until January 7th at Creighton.

[Marquette Fan]

An article on Marquette recruit Emily La Chapell:

https://bvmsports.com/2021/12/23/marquette-commit-emily-la-chapell-is-enjoying-her-final-season-at-appleton-east/

And other Big East Women's Bball games canceled due to Covid:

https://www.bigeast.com/news/2021/12/27/big-east-announces-womens-basketball-schedule-changes.aspx

[Warriors4ever]

How is Karisa's ankle?

[Marquette Fan]

How is Karisa's ankle?

No idea unfortunately and not expecting to hear anything about it either.  We just had a player not play for almost two years with no updates from MU (Lougbo).  Will have to see if McLaughlin is able to play in MU's next game. 

UCONN now has Covid issues also and their game at DePaul on 12/31 was postponed.

[Marquette Fan]

Natisha Hiedeman resigns with the Connecticut Sun:

https://twitter.com/ConnecticutSun/status/1478021923070173187

I would really love to see something in the Al highlighting her as an MU alum playing in the WNBA especially as she's the first and so far only Marquette alum to play in the league.  I'm talking about playing - I know MU alum Nicki (Taggart) Collen used to coach in the WNBA.

[pbiflyer]

Saw she is available on Cameo if anyone wants to give a unique gift to an mu women's bball fan.

[Marquette Fan]

Fun game tonight at the Al that at first appeared MU had won on a tip-in by LVK with less than a second to go.  But that was waved off after a long review.  Marquette took care of business in OT prevailing 88-85 over rival DePaul.  Karissa McLaughlin had the big stat line with  24 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast, 2 TO, 2 stl playing all 45 minutes of the game.  I was really impressed with sophomore Danyel Middleton tonight - she had a nice game including two 3 pointers and 10 rebounds.

MU has two more home games coming up this weekend - Fri vs. Georgetown and Sun vs. Villanova

[Warriors4ever]

Nice win. Good job, ladies.

[shoothoops]

Fun game tonight at the Al that at first appeared MU had won on a tip-in by LVK with less than a second to go.  But that was waved off after a long review.  Marquette took care of business in OT prevailing 88-85 over rival DePaul.  Karissa McLaughlin had the big stat line with  24 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast, 2 TO, 2 stl playing all 45 minutes of the game.  I was really impressed with sophomore Danyel Middleton tonight - she had a nice game including two 3 pointers and 10 rebounds.

MU has two more home games coming up this weekend - Fri vs. Georgetown and Sun vs. Villanova

DePaul came in having won 8 of 9, only losing a recent close one at home to Notre Dame.

McLaughlin has had some big games for MUWBB this year. She shot the ball well.

Another difference is getting some front court scoring. In the recent losses to Creighton and Seton Hall, MUWBB hasn't been able to do that. In two recent losses, Van Kleunen and Marotta combined for 18 points over two games. Against DePaul, they had 20 and 16.

And they were able to hold Sonya Morris to 13.

Nice to see Juan Toscano-Anderson at the game.

[We R Final Four]

How was the attendance?

[Marquette Fan]

How was the attendance?

Typical - not a ton of people there.  1227 in the box score.

[Marquette Fan]

It was interesting to watch the video of the tip-in at the end of regulation - it appears to be good based on the light on the backboard but they ruled the clock didn't start on time:

https://twitter.com/_robanderson/status/1481462705357737985

[MU82]

It was interesting to watch the video of the tip-in at the end of regulation - it appears to be good based on the light on the backboard but they ruled the clock didn't start on time:

https://twitter.com/_robanderson/status/1481462705357737985

I think the refs got it right, but that had to be brutal for the players and coaches in the moment. Big kudos to them for being able to win in OT; some teams might have been too deflated.

Always nice to beat DePaul. It's not realistic for Marquette to be UConn in women's hoops, but DePaul's year-in, year-out consistently good showing is something for Marquette to aspire to.

[Galway Eagle]

I think the refs got it right, but that had to be brutal for the players and coaches in the moment. Big kudos to them for being able to win in OT; some teams might have been too deflated.

Always nice to beat DePaul. It's not realistic for Marquette to be UConn in women's hoops, but DePaul's year-in, year-out consistently good showing is something for Marquette to aspire to.

Seemed like we were about to be after the past 5yrs till this year took a big step back. Hope Duffy can build it back again before losing too much momentum.

[Marquette Fan]

I think the refs got it right, but that had to be brutal for the players and coaches in the moment. Big kudos to them for being able to win in OT; some teams might have been too deflated.

Always nice to beat DePaul. It's not realistic for Marquette to be UConn in women's hoops, but DePaul's year-in, year-out consistently good showing is something for Marquette to aspire to.

It wasn't easy for the fans to wait out that review either .  But seriously I'm sure it was very hard for the players and coaches. 

I went from so excited thinking they'd won to realizing they were going to review it and that it probably  had a good chance to be waved off.  I was worried DePaul had the momentum going into OT and MU had also lost their spark of Middleton who fouled out near the end of regulation. But they took care of business in OT.  There was also a very long review on an out of bounds call with one minute to go in OT.  They originally had awarded the ball to MU who had a 4 point lead at that point.  After this long review, the ball was awarded to DePaul who scored to cut it to 2 points.  Kudos to Jordan King who hustled back after turning over the ball to draw a charge late in OT - the lead was down to 2 points at that point as I recall and that kept DePaul from tying the game as it looked like they were going to do there. I was kind of surprised they called the charge there but I'll take it .

Marquette doesn't look like an NCAA Tournament team this season but it was nice to see them get the win over a rival last night especially after their 11 point 3rd quarter lead turned into a 7 point 4th quarter deficit.  They fought back nicely in this one.