Marquette Faces Creighton on Friday

Friday, January 3

Omaha, NE

7 P.M. CT

Marquette University

Creighton

Marquette Women's Basketball vs. Mississippi State

1/2/2020 11:13:00 AM | Women's Basketball

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Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. CT on the BIG EAST Digital Network

By: Communications

MILWAUKEE— The Marquette women's basketball team continues a three-game road trip in BIG EAST action and will face Creighton on Friday, Jan. 3 at 7 p.m. CT from D.J. Sokol Arena.

The game will air on the BIG EAST Digital Network with Josh Peterson and Rob Simms handling announcing duties.

The Golden Eagles opened BIG EAST action with a tough test at No. 16 DePaul on Dec. 29. MU started strong and pressed the Blue Demons before falling in an 89-71 decision in Chicago. Lauren Van Kleunen's 19 points led a trio of Golden Eagles in double digits as Selena Lott and Altia Anderson added 18 and 10 points, respectively.

Lott leads Marquette (9-3, 0-1) with 15.2 points per game, which ranks eighth in the BIG EAST, while Isabelle Spingola's 11.5 points per game is 18^th in the league with Van Kleunen ranking 23^rd at 10.7 points per contest. Freshman Jordan King also ranks in the top-30 in the conference with 9.8 points.

As a team the Golden Eagles rank second in the BIG EAST and 14^th in the NCAA handing out 18.6 assists per game. Lott is MU's individual leader, also ranking 14^th in the country dishing out 5.6 assists.

UP NEXT: Marquette will take on Providence on Sunday, Jan. 5 at 12 p.m. CT.

FOLLOW THE ACTION
LIVE STATS: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=280085
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr2yYLRDITo

OPPONENT
CREIGHTON (10-3, 2-0) Creighton opened BIG EAST play with a pair of road wins at Georgetown and Villanova. Jaylyn Agnew leads the Bluejays and is second in the league in scoring with 19.3 points per game and is 11^th in the NCAA with 3.2 three-pointers each night. Three other Creighton players average double figures. Agnew and Rachael Saunders average 6.4 and 6.0 rebounds, respectively. Creighton is holding opponents to just 59.4 points per game.

THE SERIES
Marquette trails the all-time series with Creighton, 11-7 and split the season series last year with each team winning on its home court.

WHAT THE TEAM IS SAYING:
Following DePaul…
"We have a long season ahead and a long BIG EAST season and we're going to keep fighting and go back to the drawing board to figure out our identity. We've got to figure out a way to take care of the ball and step up. I thought we were tentative with our decision-making with stuff that was wide open and it led to some easy baskets from DePaul. Once they had those easy baskets, they had open three's and once you do that they are just too hard to stop."
-Megan Duffy
Head Coach

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