Marquette Women’s Basketball Preview: at Missouri State

Through three games, we have a pretty solid read on some aspects of Marquette women’s basketball this season. We can tell they’re definitely better than Mississippi Valley State and Presbyterian, winning both games by 30+. That’s a Bare Minimum situation though, as both squads project to be amongst the worst in the country this season. We can tell that Marquette can adjust to what’s going on around them in a game, as the Golden Eagles had to alter the course of the Presbyterian game after the Blue Hose were giving MU trouble through the first 15 minutes or so. The same goes for the Minnesota game as Marquette roared back from down 12-0 out of the gate to take a lead in the second quarter. If you want to take the optimist’s view, you can even point at MU taking a punch from the Gophers in the last five minutes of the third quarter and then returning that punch over the next several minutes. Not enough to actually win, but enough to make Minnesota buckle up and close out the game.

As shake out cruises go, not too bad from Marquette so far. It was always going to take head coach Cara Consuegra a little bit of time to figure out exactly what she had with this roster that she essentially had to rebuild on the fly last spring. If the worst thing we can say about the Golden Eagles right now is “they weren’t ready for the challenge of a ranked opponent in the second game of the season,” that’s not that big of a deal.

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As long as they continue to fix the problems in front of them and keep improving, things are going to work out okay in general. We can have a conversation about where exactly the ceiling on “work out okay” is after we see what happens in Springfield on Friday night. Based on analytic profiles, there’s not that much separating Missouri State from a Big East opponent, both right now and over the last several years. If Marquette wants to have a successful season in 2026-27, they’re going to have to win several games like Friday night’s against the Bears,…

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Publish date : 2026-11-13 00:30:00

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