No. 9 UConn Huskies Marquette Golden Eagles
27-5 (18-2) 21-9 (13-7)
Date: Sunday,March 5th 2023
Time: 3:00 PM
Where: Mohegan Sun Arena
Uncasville, Ct.
TV: FS1
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MARQUETTE | UCONN LEADS 16-1
H: 7-0 | A: 7-1 | 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.
12/31/22 #8 UConn 61, Marquette 48 Storrs, Conn.
02/08/23 #4 UConn 52, Marquette 59 Milwaukee, Wis.
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.
Since the first matchup that UConn won 61-48, Marquette has gone 6-3, only losing to the three other top teams in the conference, 68-42 to Creighton, 66-61 to St. John's and 73-54 to Villanova. They basely beat Butler 65-63 and their best win was against DePaul 72-63.
After beating UConn 59-52, Marquette won five of their last six games and seem to be on a roll. They are still not scoring other then the anomoly when you play DePaul, as every game they were under 60 points.
They are a possible NCAA tournament team. On the bubble playing in the playin game according to Charlie SECreme.
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Game Analysis
My pregame report for the first game holds true even after the second match up, so much of this report is just a repeat in describing the players. I've added how players did in the first two games as context for this match up.
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 16.3 PPG and 4 APG. She is the only three point threat on the team shooting 37.5% from deep. Not only the best player, she is the team leader as well. In the first game King played 28 minutes scoring only four points on 2-8 shooting. As usual, Geno stopped the leading scorer for the opponent. But in their win she scored 18 points. Geno will focus on her again.
Lisa Karlen, a 6'2" junior forward brings some rebounding to the team and leads Marquette in blocks at 21. She is averaging 11.3 PPG and 7.5 RPG. Karlen had a solid game in the first outing scoring 15 points on 7-16 shooting and added 6 rebounds in her 33 minutes. She also had 5 turnovers. She had only 4 points on 2-14 shooting in their win.
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 8.9 RPG. She is second on the team in scoring at 13.5 PPG.
Marotta also had double digit scoring in the first game with 10 points on 4-11 shooting. She added 4 rebounds in her 34 minutes. She was terrific in beating UConn, leading the Golden Eagles with 19 points and 9 rebounds.
5'7" junior guard Rose Nkumu played 34 minutes and really struggled against the UConn defense. She was 1-8 from the field and 0-2 on threes. She led the team with 3 assists. In their win she had 5 points, 3 assists and 5 steals. She really did some damage against UConn.
5'11" freshman guard Emily La Chapell (gorgeous) moved into the starting lineup for Marquette and had a nice game againt the Huskies. She played 37 minutes and scored 11 points and was 3-4 on threes. She had 9 points hitting only one three pointer in their win.
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. I said this in the first game analysis "And they will have problems like Creighton did in guarding Edwards and Juhasz. They just don't have the size to handle them." Wrong...lol. Both Edwards and Juhasz had only nine points each. In the loss Edwards had only 8 points and Dorka had 15 to lead the team. Marquette seems to have Edwards number.
Lou and Ducharme had great games against Marquette with 22 points and 19 points respectively. And in the loss Ducharme was out and Lou had a tough shooting game going 5-15 only scoring 12 points. They didn't have Caroline in the loss or Fudd.
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. Marquette is just a tough defensive team and UConn will have to play their best to score over 60 points.
Prediction
This game is going to be a war. It will be a challenge for Marquette to score enough to beat UConn as they just don't score enough. Well, unless you limit UConn to under 60 points. Can UConn oversome the leading defense in the Big East.
Marquette had a tough game against St. John's to reach the Semi-Finals. They won 57-47 but I don't believe 57 points will do it. Their starters played a ton of minutes, going for 40, 39, 37, 33 and 32 minutes. And you know they were tough minutes going against the physical St. John's defense. They will feel the effects in this game.
I'd like to believe that Fudd will make a difference and if Caroline is available, the seven player rotation will be enoough to handle Marquette. The Golden Eagles will be under 55 and the Huskies over 60.
UConn by 10+.
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