For 30 minutes and 56 seconds on Sunday afternoon in New Jersey, Marquette women’s basketball played Seton Hall to a standstill. Sure, the Pirates had led by as many as nine at one point in the second quarter and as many as seven in the third, but that didn’t matter now. Karissa McLaughlin’s three-pointer — one of six in the game for the Purdue transfer — with 9:24 to play drew the two teams even at 51 apiece.
And then Seton Hall scored the next 16 in a row.
Marquette did not score again until there was just 2:55 left to play, and that was a split pair of free throws by Lauren Van Kleunen.