The #5 ranked Huskies dismantled Marquette in the regular season finale for both teams.
About one entire minute.
That was how long Marquette women’s basketball had a chance against #5 UConn on Sunday in the regular season finale for both teams. Skylar Forbes and Lee Volker both popped in three pointers in the first 50 seconds of the game and so Marquette was up 6-2.
Then UConn went on an 18-3 run, 20-9 Huskies and that was pretty much that. UConn was up 16 at the end of the first quarter, MU never got closer than 12 in the second before trailing by 20 at the half. Scoring the first two buckets of the second half just pissed the Huskies off as they ripped off the next 16 in a row, hey, look, 32 point game.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t watch a second of this. I went to see Captain America: Brave New World (it’s fine) and the movie ended juuuuuuuuust in time to open up the ESPN app to see that 31-15 score at the end of the first quarter.
THE GOOD NEWS: Marquette scored 15 entire points in the fourth quarter, so this isn’t even close to last year’s Big East semifinal game when Megan Duffy watched her team get shut out.
It was Paige Bueckers’ Senior Day at Gampel Pavilion, and so yeah, she had a game high 19 points on 7-for-11 shooting, and she added four rebounds and seven assists. Bueckers truly is inevitable, unlike Thanos, who is in fact a big bragging loser.
Marquette was led by 13 points from Jaidynn Mason. Halle Vice was the tops in rebounds with four — that’s a problem to say the least, while Mason, Vice, and Olivia Porter all had two assists for the team lead there. I’m not going to say that Marquette’s fate was riding on the fact that this went this way, but we have to note that Skylar Forbes went 2-for-12 in 28 foul laden minutes after that game opening three-pointer.
In theory, there are highlights, courtesy of GoMarquette.com and Fox Sports. Enjoy.
Up Next: The loss moves Marquette to 20-9 on the year and 12-6 in the Big East at the end of the regular season. They’ve already secured a bye to the quarterfinals of the conference tournament, so we know they will return to action against Villanova in the 4/5 game on Saturday, March 8th. The only thing we don’t know is which team will be the #4 and the #5, as that’s depending on whether Villanova wins or loses against Creighton tonight. A VU loss makes Marquette the #4 seed, while a Wildcats victory means a tie for fourth and in fact the win over the Bluejays would be the tiebreaker in Nova’s favor to make MU the #5.
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