WBB Heads Back To East Coast To Face St. John's

MILWAUKEE - Following consecutive defeats for the first time since November, the Marquette women's basketball team looks to rebound on the road this week. The two-game road swing will first see the Golden Eagles head east to New York to face St. John's on Wednesday night.

Tipoff from Carnesecca Arena is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT. Ed Cohen (pxp) and Meghan McKeown (analyst) will be on the call for Peacock.

THE STARTING FIVE

Marquette and St. John's will meet for the second time this season on Wednesday. It will be the first opponent that MU will see for a second time this year. The Red Storm grabbed the first matchup by seven on Dec. 29.
Marquette dropped its fourth game of BIG EAST play on Saturday to Georgetown. In three of the last four seasons, the Golden Eagles have lost at least four of its first nine games in conference play.
Halle Vice recorded her BIG EAST leading seventh double-double of the season last Wednesday. Five of those have come in the last seven games. Without one double-double in her first three BIG EAST games, Vice has four in her last six league contests.
Despite having its worst 3-point shooting game of the season by nearly 10% last time out against Georgetown (19.0%), the Golden Eagles remain one of the top shooting teams in the country from deep. MU sits sixth in the nation shooting at a 38.4% clip. It is a 7.7% increase from a year ago.
Marquette's strength this season comes in its experience and continuity as the program is the only one in Division I women's college basketball to return all of its players from the 2024-25 season.

BY THE NUMBERS
1 - Jaidynn Mason is closing in on 1,000 points for her collegiate career. 445 of her 999 points have been scored for the Golden Eagles.
19.0% - Through 18 games, Marquette has been held below 30% from 3 just twice this this season. The 19.0% on Saturday was its lowest of the year by 9.6%.
67 - In six of Marquette's losses this season, MU has been held to under 67 points. The Golden Eagles are 1-6 when scoring below 67.

FLASHING BACK - GAME 18 VS GEORGETOWN

Marquette faced its largest halftime deficit of the season at 23 points.
MU's four points in the first quarter were its fewest points in a quarter this season.
Georgetown finished with a 21-20 advantage in points off turnovers but that different was 17 at the half.
MU forced 12 turnovers in the second half compared to committing just four of its own.
Marquette shot a season-low 19.0% from 3 (4-of-21). The previous low was 28.6% at Minnesota.
Lee Volker and Jaidynn Mason each reached double figures in scoring for the ninth time this season, finishing with 16 and 12 points, respectively.

FACING THE STORM

Marquette and St. John's will me for the 38th time on Wednesday evening.
MU holds the lead in the series at 23-14.
The Golden Eagles have won 11 of the last 15 in the series after dropping this season's first meeting.
MU is just 3-4 in the last seven meetings with the Red Storm.

LINING UP THE 20s
Marquette became the 13th team in country this season to have at least five players score 20 points in game. All five primary Marquette starters have at least one 20-point game this year after Olivia Porter scored 23 on Jan. 8.

Of the 13 schools with at least five, six have had six players score 20 or more in a game this season.
Ten of the 13 schools have seen each of its its primary starters record a 20-point game this year.
MU's starters have combined to post 14 20-point games this season.

DIVERSIFYING THE OPTIONS
While Skylar Forbes is the Golden Eagles' top scorer at 15.5 points per game, three others have shown that they too can carry the scoring load. Three of MU's other starters--Jaidynn Mason, Halle Vice, Lee Volker--are also averaging double figures.

Each of the four have led MU in scoring this season and all four have each posted at least two 20-point games.

A WALKING DOUBLE-DOUBLE
Recording her seventh double-double of the season on Jan. 14, Halle Vice continues to lead the BIG EAST in the category. The junior had just one double-double through the first five weeks of the season but has recorded six during an eight-game stretch from Dec. 14-Jan. 14.

Her stretch of four straight games (Dec. 20-Jan. 4) with a double-double is the longest stretch of consecutive double-doubles by a Golden Eagle since Erika Davenport had a double-double in five straight games in 2019 (Jan. 11-25).
Vice's seven double-doubles ranks 29th in the NCAA.