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WBB Hosts Loyola Chicago on Saturday
12/8/2022 4:25:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Golden Eagles to begin four-game homestand with matchup against the Ramblers
MILWAUKEE — The Marquette women's basketball team (7-2, 1-1 BIG EAST) resumes non-conference play this weekend as it returns home to host Loyola Chicago (3-7, 0-0 A-10) on Saturday, Dec. 10. The Golden Eagles and the Ramblers will tip-off at 2 p.m. (CT) from the Al McGuire Center in Milwaukee. The game will be broadcast on YouTube by MUTV with Jackson Gross (play-by-play), Trevor Hilson (analyst) and Ben Schultz (analyst) on the call. Live stats and stream links are available at GoMarquette.com.
In the team's first weekend of BIG EAST play, Marquette split a pair of games on the East Coast. Marquette posted a 78-57 win at Georgetown on Friday, before suffering a 82-78 loss to Seton Hall on Sunday. The Golden Eagles were slated to take on Morgan State at home on Wednesday, Dec. 7, but the game was canceled due to COVID health and safety protocols within the Morgan State program.
The Ramblers enter the contest with a 3-7 mark on the young season, posting wins over Western Michigan, Saint Francis and Bradley. Most recently, Loyola Chicago faced BIG EAST foe DePaul at home on Wednesday, falling 78-52. It is 1-4 away from home this season.
Loyola Chicago has been led statistically this season by junior guard Maya Chandler, who averages a team-best 12.8 points per contest. Junior forward Sitori Tanin leads the squad with 5.8 rebounds, while senior guard Anna Brown has dished out a team-best 2.9 assists per game. The Ramblers are led by first-year head coach Allison Guth.
Marquette and Loyola Chicago have met up 19 times in a series which dates back to 1979, the Golden Eagles leading 11-8 with wins in each of the past eight meetings. The squads last met in 2017, a 92-30 win for Marquette in Milwaukee.
SCOUTING THE RAMBLERS
• Loyola Chicago enters Saturday's contest with a 3-7 mark on the season, having posted wins over Western Michigan, Saint Francis and Bradley.
• In 2021-22 the Ramblers went 18-12 overall with a 10-8 mark in league play.
• The Ramblers are coming off of a loss at home on Wednesday against BIG EAST foe DePaul, falling to the Blue Demons 78-52.
• Loyola Chicago is 1-4 away from home this season.
• The team has been led statistically this season by junior guard Maya Chandler, who averages a team-best 12.8 points per contest. Junior forward Sitori Tanin leads the squad with 5.8 rebounds, while senior guard Anna Brown has dished out a team-best 2.9 assists per game.
• The Ramblers rank seventh nationally in free throw percentage, hitting 80.9 percent from the stripe. They rank 347th out of 349 Division I teams in rebounding with just 27.8 boards per contest.
ALL-TIME SERIES AGAINST LOYOLA CHICAGO
• Saturday's meeting will be the 20th all-time between Marquette and Loyola Chicago, a series which began in 1979.
• Marquette has the advantage in the all-time series, holding an 11-8 record.
• MU has won eight-straight meetings, the past four all coming at home.
• The squads last met in 2017 in Milwaukee, a 92-30 win for Marquette.
All-Time Meetings
DATE LOCATION RESULT SCORE
11/28/17 H W 92-30
11/17/14 H W 86-71
12/29/12 H W 77-61
11/12/07 H W 82-69
11/13/98 A W 74-40
STARTING FIVE
• The Golden Eagles are 27-8 against non-conference opponents under Coach Duffy.
• Coach Duffy is off to the best coaching start through four seasons of any coach in program history. She boasts a 73-28 overall mark (.723) at Marquette.
• The Golden Eagles are 61-3 under Coach Duffy when leading at halftime and 44-5 when they turn the ball over the same or fewer times than their opponent.
• MU is 41-4 when scoring more than 70 points under Coach Duffy and 50-5 when shooting more free throws than its opponent.
• In the 101 games of the Coach Duffy era, the Golden Eagles have out-rebounded their opponent 83 times.
1,000-POINT MILESTONE
• During Sunday's game against Seton Hall, senior guard Jordan King scored the 1,000th point of her career.
• She is the 32nd 1,000-point scorer in Marquette program history.
• King has also recorded 394 career assists, recently moving into the program's top 10 all-time. With six more assists, she will become just the eighth player in program history with 1,000 points and 400 assists.
MAROTTA HONORED BY BIG EAST
• Following huge individual performances in the first two games of league play last weekend, Chloe Marotta was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll.
• The senior forward neared a triple-double against Georgetown, going for 12 points, 14 rebounds and a career-high tying eight assists.
• She followed that performance up with a career-high 30 point outing against Seton Hall, along with 12 boards and three assists.
• This was Marotta's first weekly honor of the season, and the second BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll appearance of her career.
MAROTTA SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST
• In what is her fifth year in the blue and gold, Chloe Marotta has gotten off to a stellar start and is posting by far the best numbers of her career.
• Marotta currently averages career-best marks in points (15.2), rebounds (9.0), assists (3.4), blocks (.8) and steals (.9) per game, while also leading the league and shooting a career-best 91.7 percent (33-of-36) from the free throw line.
• While Marotta has always been a do-it-all player, her scoring is the category that has taken the most significant jump this season, going from 6.9 points per game last season (a career-best at the time) to 15.2 points per contest this year.
THE BIG THREE
• While Marquette's depth has been a strength this season, it has also relied on stellar consistency and production from its "big three" of Chloe Marotta, Jordan King and Liza Karlen.
• The trio is one of just two in the BIG EAST (joining UConn's Fudd-Lopez-Edwards) to each average at least 14.0 points per game.
• They have combined this season to average 43.2 points, 20.8 rebounds and 9.6 assists while all playing at least 30 minutes per contest.
LAST TIME OUT
• Marquette split its opening weekend slate of games on the East Coast, earning a 78-57 win at Georgetown on Dec. 2, before falling to Seton Hall 82-78 on Dec. 4.
• Against the Hoyas, MU used the late surge of a 24-11 fourth quarter to pull away after a fairly even three quarters in Washington D.C. Jordan King came up big for the Golden Eagles, scoring a game-high 23 points in what was her 100th career game.
• Against the Pirates, Marquette fell short despite a career-high 30 point performance from Chloe Marotta. In what was a fairly even contest in most statistical categories, MU struggled to respond to a 14-0 run midway through the second quarter and despite making a late surge, was unable to close the gap as it fell for the first time in league play.
HITTING THE CENTURY MARK
• Last Friday's contest at Georgetown marked the 100th game coached at Marquette for head coach Megan Duffy, as well as the 100th game of senior guard Jordan King's college career.
• The duo, who each arrived in Milwaukee for the 2019-20 season, have combined to help the team to a 73-27 record in that time. King has started all 100 games of her career.
• With a .730 winning percentage, this has proven to be one of the winningest player-coach duos in program history.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
• The Golden Eagles remain at home for part two of a four-game homestand as they play their BIG EAST home opener against Butler on Sunday, Dec. 18, at 2 p.m. CT.
• The game will be broadcast by BIG EAST Digital Network on FloHoops, with links to the stream and live stats available on GoMarquette.com.
