Marquette Women’s Basketball Preview: vs Gonzaga

Got some bad news for you.

Sunday morning is Marquette’s last chance to get a quality non-conference win this year….. and it looks like even if they get it, it won’t be their best win of the season anyway.

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After Sunday, Marquette has just two non-conference games left: Le Moyne and Truman State. Le Moyne is currently sub-300 in Ye Olde BartTorvik.com rankings, and Truman State is a Division 2 program that does not even populate into mattering when the NET fires up. As far as wins in hand already, Marquette has the home overtime victory against Wisconsin….. and nothing else in the top 100. They got smushed by a computer top 20 Minnesota team earlier this year and didn’t have the gas to stay with Iowa State on Friday. No shame in those results — although losing by 43 to the Gophers is its own problem — but they were MU’s only other shots at something nice on the resume.

Wisconsin is currently #74 in the Torvik rankings, and Gonzaga sits at #87 on Saturday afternoon. Getting a top 100 win would be a good thing for the Golden Eagles, something that they absolutely need if they want to be an NCAA team…. it just won’t be the crown jewel of their resume, that’s all.

And speaking of things that are not shining beacons in the night….. Marquette has a turnover problem. Halle Vice has a turnover rate of over 27%…. and she is not the worst starter. Olivia Porter has a rate of 31.2% — over 30% of possessions that she “uses” are turnovers! — and she is not the worst starter. That currently sits with Skylar Forbes, who has a rate of 31.4% and had four turnovers in the first half against Iowa State before finishing the game with five.

All four were in the second quarter, coming with Marquette down 3, down 5, down 8, and down 10, all before the 2Q media timeout. I am not saying that Skylar Forbes’ turnovers cost Marquette the game, there was still 25 minutes left to go, same as her four first quarter turnovers did not cost MU the Minnesota game….

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Publish date : 2025-11-29 18:21:00

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