UConn Huskies Marquette Golden Eagles
10-2 (3-0) 9-4 (2-2)
Date: Saturday, December 31st 2022
Time: 2:00 PM
Where: Gampel Pavilion
Storrs, Ct.
TV: SNY
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MARQUETTE | UCONN LEADS 15-0
H: 6-0 | A: 7-0 | N: 2-0
02/25/06 #8 UConn 74, Marquette 59 Storrs, Conn.
02/03/07 #3 UConn 52, Marquette 48 Milwaukee, Wis.
02/20/08 #1 UConn 95, Marquette 63 Hartford, Conn.
02/07/09 #1 UConn 83, Marquette 49 Milwaukee, Wis.
01/13/10 #1 UConn 68, Marquette 43 Milwaukee, Wis.
12/09/10 #1 UConn 79, Marquette 47 Storrs, Conn.
02/25/12 #4 UConn 85, Marquette 45 Milwaukee, Wis.
01/12/13 #3 UConn 85, Marquette 51 Milwaukee, Wis.
02/05/13 #3 UConn 94, Marquette 37 Storrs, Conn.
02/05/21 #3 UConn 87, Marquette 58 Milwaukee, Wis.
03/01/21 #1 UConn 63, Marquette 53 Storrs, Conn.
03/08/21 #1 UConn 73, Marquette 39 Uncasville, Conn.
02/13/22 #8 UConn 72, Marquette 58 Milwaukee, Wis.
02/23/22 #7 UConn 69, Marquette 38 Hartford, Conn.
03/06/22 #7 UConn 71, Marquette 51 Uncasville, Conn.
Marquette
Marquette is having a solid season. They have had some really good wins. They beat then ranked No. 3 Texas 68-61, now ranked No. 19 Gonzaga 70-66 in back to back games and followed that with an overtime loss to then ranked No. 20 UCLA 66-58 in overtime.
Some bad losses as well. In their last two games they lost big to Colorado 71-48 and in their last game they lost to Villanova 54-52. Their only other loss was against Seton Hall 82-78. That game is one of the comparative games with UConn, who beat the Pirates 98-73.
Comparative Team Statistics
(leader in bold)
UConn Marquette
83.0 PPG 69.4
65.5 Defensive PPG 57.3
17.5 Scoring Margin 12.1
52.0 Field Goal % 41.8
37.4 Defensive FG% 37.0
41.5 Three Point % 31.1
29.3 Defensive 3PT% 30.8
76.4 Free Throw % 77.2
41.7 Rebounds/game 41.2
12.3 Rebounding Margin 6.9
21.4 Assists per game 17.0
17.4 Turnover per game 14.4
1.2 Assists/TO ratio 1.2
6.8 Steals per game 8.4
3.7 Blocks per game 3.7
UCONN
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UConn Starters
UConn Injuries
1-2 Games
Covid-19
1-2 Weeks
MCL Sprain
OUT FOR THE SEASON
Marquette Starters
Marquette Bench
Game Analysis
Marquette lost their two leading scorers form last season in Lauren Van Kleunen and Karisa McLaughlin. Van Kleumen was a handful. At 6'2" and solid, she was tough to deal with in the post. McLauglin was by far their best three point shooter. Both players are really missed.
Here are the returning players.
5"11" Senior Jordan King is the leading scorer and has the most assist as well. She averages 15.3 PPG and 4 APG. She is the only three point threat on the team shooting 42.9% from deep. Not only the best player, she is the team leader as well.
Lisa Karlen, a 6'2" junior forward brings some rebounding to the team and leads Marquette in blocks at 23. She is averaging 11.3 PPG and 7.8 RPG.
6'1" senior forward Chloe Marotta is a solid shooter as she doesn't take many out of her range, which is right around the basket. She is a pretty good defender as well. And she is the leading rebounder on the team at 8.6 RPG. She is second on the team in scoring at 13.5 PPG.
5'7" junior guard Rose Nkumu and 5'9" senior guard Nia Clark round out the starting lineup. Both are solid but not spectacular players and their main job is to defend the opponent's guards and take care of the ball. They don't add much to the offense.
Same can be said for the bench. They have only three guards coming off the bench. No size. And two of them are freshmen. We know how tough that can be. Marquette is not a very good offensive teams and they really rely on the top three scorers. Stop them and the Golden Eagle struggle to score.
Defensively, the Golden Eagles play exclusively a man-to-man. And they will have problems like Creighton did in guarding Edwards and Juhasz. They just don't have the size to handle them.
UConn will try to uptempo this game. They will run on almost every defensive rebound. But Marquette is always very physical and hopefully no one gets hurt.
Prediction
Based on the season to date, Marquette is really going to struggle to score over 50 points in this game. They have little three point shooting so UConn's defense can concentrate on protecting the basket.
It really looks like one of those conference miss-matches.
UConn by 30+
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