On a chilly fall day, as the leaves blew and the wind whistled outside the Al McGuire Center, Marquette Head Coach Megan Duffy was inside running practice. Duffy blew her whistle to stop a play after junior forward Liza Karlen reversed the ball back to senior guard Jordan King instead of shooting a 3-pointer.
“Coach Duffy will stop it (the play) and she’ll blow the whistle on practice and say ‘You have to shoot those,'” assistant coach Kelly Komara said. “When your head coach is pouring that much confidence in you to stop in the middle of the play and say ‘Hey, you got to shoot,’ that confidence then appears in the game.