If there was doubt about how Saturday’s Marquette women’s basketball game was going to go at the midway point of the first quarter, the Golden Eagles quickly erased that doubt. Karissa McLaughlin drained a three at exactly the five minute mark of the opening period, kicking off a 9-0 run and a 13-2 run to the end of the quarter. Marquette was already up six when McLaughlin hit her jumper, and the Golden Eagles were up 17, 29-12, after 10 minutes.
The rest of the game was pretty much academic. By the end, no Marquette player saw more than 26 minutes of action as head coach Megan Duffy leaned into her bench with a lead and the Golden Eagles defeated North Dakota 89-65.