In the post 2013 BIG EAST, Marquette Women’s basketball has never entered the post-season conference tournament as a favored team in the first round. Now, after a season that turned into one of Marquette sports’ feel good stories of the year, the Golden Eagles enter the single-elimination playoffs as a three seed, skipping a first round play-in game and earning direct access to the quarterfinals.
Will head coach Carolyn Kieger’s squad make a run for the conference title? How could they get there? Who will they have to play, and how have they performed against them in the past?