Keep Making Your Three-Pointers: Marquette 85, Villanova 69

Six days ago, Marquette women’s basketball lost their last game of 2025 maybe perhaps exclusively because they missed 14 layups in a seven point loss to St. John’s.

They came up with an interesting preventative measure to that idea on Sunday afternoon at the McGuire Center against a Villanova team that came in at 5-0 in the Big East and riding a 10 game winning streak: Don’t miss any three-point attempts.

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Okay, that’s not 100% accurate. In fact, Marquette missed their first two three-point attempts of the game….. before hitting their next five in a row and 11 of the next 16. The Golden Eagles — led by 4-for-4 from Halle Vice and 5-for-8 from Skylar Forbes — shot 61% from behind the arc against the Wildcats, and that means they shot 68.8% after the first two misses in the first three minutes of the contest.

Things generally speaking get a lot easier for you all over the court when you’re stacking up points like that. That’s how Marquette went into the second quarter up 23-14 after a Vice three as the last bucket of the quarter. Marquette wasn’t putting much of anything through the net for the first five minutes of the second quarter, but after Lee Volker hit a three with 4:30 left before halftime, that fended off Villanova as the Wildcats had cut the margin down to just two points. Eight straight points from Vice alone late in the period got Marquette up 10 and gave the junior from Iowa 22 points in the first half. It was only Marquette by six at halftime though as Villanova got two buckets in the final minute as MU kind of turned into a mess right there at the end and the Wildcats made them pay for being sloppy.

Marquette made Villanova pay for that coming out of the locker room, and some good old fashioned two-point baskets — specifically five layups! — were the grounding point of the 15-3 run for the Golden Eagles that broke this game wide open. After Skylar Forbes scored with 5:21 left in the third, it was Marquette by 18, 57-39. It was…

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Publish date : 2026-01-05 01:56:00

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