Marquette University Athletics
Marquette Hosts No. 23/21 Pittsburgh Saturday Night
2/22/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 22, 2008
MILWAUKEE -
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The Marquette women's basketball team will host its penultimate home game of the season Saturday night when it hosts No. 23/21 Pittsburgh for a 7 p.m. tip-off at the Al McGuire Center. The Golden Eagles will be looking for a win to move to .500 in conference play.
Saturday is Dollar Day! General admission tickets, hot dogs, candy and soda are each only $1!
The game will be broadcast locally on Time Warner Sports Ch. 32 with Steve "The Homer" True and former Marquette great Kelly Schwerman calling the action from courtside. The game can also be hear on the radio airwaves on WJYI 1340 AM with Kent Sommerfeld and Moya Bayliss on the call.
In its last time out, Marquette fell at top-ranked Connecticut, 95-63. Freshman Angel Robinson led the Golden Eagles with a career high 22 points. Red-shirt freshman Jocelyn Mellen pulled down a collegiate high 11 rebounds. In league play Robinson is averaging 11.2 ppg and Mellen has added 4.8 rpg off the bench.
Picked to finish fourth in the league behind Connecticut, Rutgers and West Virginia, Pittsburgh is currently tied for fourth place with Notre Dame, however, the Fighting Irish win the tie breaker due to their 81-66 victory over the Panthers on Feb. 10. Pitt is in the midst of a skid where it has lost to three straight nationally ranked conference foes: Notre Dame, West Virginia and Connecticut.
Shavonte Zellous leads the Panthers in scoring with 18.9 ppg, and 19.6 ppg in conference play. Marcedes Walker follows averaging a double double with 13.4 ppg and 10.1 rpg.
Marquette and Pitt will square-off for the fifth time since the series commenced during the 2005-06 season. Marquette owns the all-time advantage, 3-1. The Panthers defeated the Golden Eagles, 91-87 in overtime, in the twosome's last regular-season meeting, but Marquette won its last meeting and knocked Pitt out of the 2007 BIG EAST Conference Tournament, 61-41, in the quarterfinals.
