Marquette women’s basketball had two straight games over the weekend end in essentially the same manner, and neither one was good news for the Golden Eagles.
On Friday night, MU went out to Philadelphia and controlled Villanova for about 39 minutes but left the door open juuuuuuust enough for Maddy Siegrist to force overtime on them. That led the Wildcats to run away with the thing in the extra five minutes. Change location back to Milwaukee for Sunday’s game against #8 Connecticut, and it was an awful lot of the same. Marquette and UConn were going shot for shot for a little over 30 minutes of game time, and then the Huskies just turned on the “ranked in the top 10” afterburners, picked up the defensive intensity, and ran away with it.