WBB Hosts App State Sunday at 2 pm CT

MILWAUKEE – The No. 19/19 Marquette women's basketball team stays home to host App State on Sunday, December 17. Tipoff from the Al McGuire Center is at 2 p.m. Central time.

The Golden Eagles are coming off a 76-70 win against No. 20 Creighton on Wednesday night in the BIG EAST opener. Marquette was led by Liza Karlen who had a double-double with a season-high 25 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. Karlen and fellow seniors Jordan King and Rose Nkumu combined for 17 of MU's final 22 points.

Sunday's contest will be on FloSports with Bob Brainerd on the call.

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SCOUTING THE MOUNTAINEERS
• Appalachian State plays Gardner Webb on the road Friday night before heading to Milwaukee.
• Last game out, the Mountaineers lost to Richmond on the road in overtime, 80-77.
• Junior Emily Carver was the Mountaineers' top scorer for the second consecutive game and fourth time this season, netting 27 points.
• Leading scorer Senior Faith Alston scored 21 points.
• Alston (16.1 ppg) and Carver (15.9 ppg) are eighth and ninth in the Sun Belt in scoring.
• Emily Carver was voted preseason All-Sun Belt Third Team.
• App State was picked to finish 12th in the Sun Belt preseason coaches' poll.

ALL-TIME SERIES AGAINST APP STATE
• Sunday's matchup will be the first meeting all-time between Marquette and App State.
• Last meeting with a Sun Belt opponent came on Nov. 23, 2012, when Marquette beat Marshall, 67-46, in the Texas A&M Classic in College Station, Texas.
• MU is 5-2 all-time vs current SBC teams.

AND THEN THERE WERE 16
• Marquette is one of 16 teams still undefeated in Division I women's college basketball.
• In the AP Top 25 poll, the Golden Eagles are one of just nine schools without a loss on the season.

KARLEN DOMINANT IN CONFERENCE OPENER
• Liza Karlen had her second double-double of the season with 25 points and a game-high 12 rebounds against Creighton on Wednesday night.
• It was the second double-double of the season and 15th of her career.
• Karlen led the team in scoring for the fifth time this season.
• The senior is sixth in the conference in field goal percentage (55.8 percent) and seventh in rebounding (7.4 per game).

HARE AMONG NATION'S BEST FROM THREE
• Mackenzie Hare is third in the nation in 3-point percentage (59.7) and fourth in treys per game (3.7).
• She has hit at least five threes in 5-of-10 games.
• The Naperville, Illinois native is first in the BIG EAST in 3-pointers made with 37 for the season, good for sixth in the nation.

MOVING THE BALL
• Marquette is first in the BIG EAST and 10th in the nation in assists per game (20.4).
• The Golden Eagles have recorded 20-or-more assists in 6-of-10 games this season. MU hit that mark eight times all of last season.

HOT SHOOTING START
• Marquette is first in the BIG EAST and seventh in the nation in shooting percentage (50.9 percent).
• MU has now shot 50-percent-or-better in 7-of-10 games this season.
• The Golden Eagles shot 50-percent-or-better in the first four games this season (51.7 percent vs UT Martin, 50 percent vs Illinois, 52.2 percent at IUPUI, 57.4 percent vs Saint Peter's) for the first time in the Megan Duffy era.
• Marquette shot 50-percent-or-better as a team three times all of last season.

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Players Mentioned

Mackenzie Hare

Liza Karlen

Jordan King

Rose Nkumu