Huskies Ready for Marquette Rematch
The Story: After having taken down Marquette at home earlier this season, the UConn women, up to No. 8 in the Associated Press poll, will be in Milwaukee tonight for a rematch against the Golden Eagles (7 p.m., SNY).
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: UConn (16-3, 8-0 Big East), winners of its last 12 games, will encounter an opponent that fell out of the national rankings yesterday following last week's loss at Villanova.
• Marquette (15-3, 4-3 Big East) was 12-0 heading into its game against UConn on New Year's Eve but lost 95-64. That began a stretch of three losses in six games that also included a defeat at St. John's on Jan. 3.
• Paige Bueckers scored a team-high 25 points and Aaliyah Edwards had 19 points and 12 rebounds in that game, which the Huskies trailed 21-13 before outscoring the Golden Eagles 82-43 over the final 32-plus minutes.
SCENE OF THE CRIME: The Huskies will be back in the building where, a year ago, one of the more incredible streaks in sports finally ended. UConn had won 74 consecutive games following a defeat, a run that lasted just shy of 30 years, until they lost 59-52 to Marquette on Feb. 8.
ABOUT MARQUETTE: The Golden Eagles are averaging 77.1 points per game — a total that's second only to UConn in the Big East — and lead the conference in 3-point shooting at 39.6 percent.
have a trio of quality scorers in senior forward Liza Karlen, who is averaging a team-high 17.5 points per game; redshirt senior guard Jordan King, who's scoring 14.8 points per game; and sophomore guard Mackenzie Hare, who's adding 14.7 points per game.
• Redshirt senior Frannie Hottinger, a transfer from Lehigh, leads Marquette with 7.6 rebounds per game. The Golden Eagles are actually formidable on the boards; their margin, plus-8.3, is tops in the Big East.
• Marquette has only beaten UConn once in 18 games — that clash last season.
— Zac Boyer
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• Tristen Newton was named the Big East men's basketball player of the week yesterday while Ashlynn Shade kept her streak alive with her third consecutive selection as the conference's women's basketball freshman of the week.
Top photo: Freshman KK Arnold will return home for a game tonight against Marquette. (Courtesy of UConn athletics)
