MU Women's Basketball Thread

[Ardmore Mug]

Skylar Forbes is back tonight vs DePaul!!!

[MU82]

Skylar Forbes is back tonight vs DePaul!!!

Thanks for the info. I guess the flag wasn't red, after all.

[Marquette Fan]

Thanks for the info. I guess the flag wasn't red, after all.

Yes I wasn't concerned about her missing one game but am glad to see her back.  She didn't start but had played plenty in the first half - figure she didn't start because of time she missed at practice/the butler game.

Bediako is back after being out the last two games.

Jordan M is listed as out on the availability report and I don't see her on the bench so maybe she is sick.

[Marquette Fan]

And thank goodness this game is so much better than the last game I was at when they started out down 19-0.  At halftime they are only 5 points away from what they scored all game against Georgetown.

[Marquette Fan]

Oh so wow the first half gave me a false sense of hope.  The second half got so incredibly ugly and I'm really not sure how Marquette pulled this one out.  And this is the third game in a row that I think they were very lucky to win.

Way too many turnovers for Marquette - they had 24 turnovers and DePaul scored 23 points off MU turnovers.  DePaul took much better care of the ball with only 6 turnovers in the game.  Marquette really struggled even getting the ball in and over half court a lot in the second half. 

Jaidynn Mason had a nice offensive game going 7-8 from the field and had 7 assists but she struggled a lot taking care of the ball with 9 turnovers.  She did hit two very key free throws at the end of the game though.

They next go to Georgetown and can hopefully have some offense show up for that game there and avenge their awful loss to them at home when they started out down 19-0.

[Marquette Fan]

And wow is the BE in Women's Basketball wildly inconsistent outside of UCONN.  UCONN is guaranteed to win by blowout in all their conference games but it's really hard to tell who is going to win any of the other games.  St. John's beat Villanova on Saturday (Villanova is the only other BE team projected to go dancing besides UCONN) after losing to them 85-48 in Philly in December.  But then in their next game out tonight at Creighton they lost by 30 and Creighton just lost to DePaul who is last in the BE at 2-10.

And it's crazy to me to see DePaul at the bottom of the conference after they were good for so long and to even see Xavier ahead of them with 3 conference wins.  Xavier had at least two seasons I think where they won no conference games at all - they've been the cellar dweller for awhile.

[Warriors4ever]

That is quite the turn of events, as you pointed out, they were so good for so long..

[tower912]

Playing Georgetown on TNT right now.

[Scoop Snoop]

Playing Georgetown on TNT right now.

Volker with 16 points, 4/5 on 3 pointers, 6/7 overall. And it is only halftime. How do we get the NCAA to allow her to play on the men's team? The women's team can have their choice of either of our seniors in trade.

Former Dukie. Relax. Not related to Wojo.

[Marquette Fan]

Forbes didn't start again.  She played 28 minutes which is more than last game at least.  I wish the game announcers would ask Consuegra about this. 

Olivia Porter got hurt in the first half and never returned to the game.

Still way too many turnovers in this game but they looked better than they have in their last few games.

Jordan Meulemans was unavailable for the second game in a row.  But she was on the bench today - I hadn't seen her at the Al on Wednesday.

Lee Volker had a nice homecoming with 22 points.

[Scoop Snoop]

Forbes didn't start again.  She played 28 minutes which is more than last game at least.  I wish the game announcers would ask Consuegra about this. 

Olivia Porter got hurt in the first half and never returned to the game.

Still way too many turnovers in this game but they looked better than they have in their last few games.

Jordan Meulemans was unavailable for the second game in a row.  But she was on the bench today - I hadn't seen her at the Al on Wednesday.

Lee Volker had a nice homecoming with 22 points.

OMG on the bolded, but at least most of Marquette's were not like quite a few of Georgetown's....passes out of bounds to a phantom teammate. :

Glad for the MU W, but blowing so much of a 17-point lead mid/late 4th Q to the buzzer? Kinda embarrassing.

[tower912]

The game was never in doubt after halftime.