No. 22/22 WBB Travels to Villanova Wednesday at 6 p.m. CT

The No. 22/22 Marquette women's basketball team travels to Villanova on Wednesday night playing for their fourth conference win in a row. Tipoff from Finneran Pavilion is at 6 p.m. CT.

The game will be broadcast on the BIG EAST Digital Network on FloHoops with Nick Mantegna (play-by-play) and Harry Perretta (analyst) on the call.

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
• Villanova is coming off a 65-54 win at Butler on Saturday night.
• Maddie Webber had a career-high 18 points, while Lucy Olsen added 15.
• The Wildcats had seven turnovers, the seventh single-digit turnover game of the season.
• Junior Lucy Olsen is first in the conference and seventh in the nation, averaging 22.8 points per game.
• Olsen has been named BIG EAST Player of the Week twice this season and was unanimous preseason All-BIG EAST.

ALL-TIME SERIES AGAINST VILLANOVA
• Saturday's matchup will be the 33rd meeting all-time between Marquette and Villanova.
• Golden Eagles lead the series 18-14.
• Marquette have won 10 out of the last 15 matchups, but have dropped four of the last five.
• Golden Eagles are 7-7 playing at Villanova.

KING TOP RETURNING SCORER IN BIG EAST
• At 17.2 points per game in league play, Jordan King is the BIG EAST's top returning scorer from 2022-23.
• King has 48 double-figure scoring performances in conference play, including seven 20-point games.
• King is the active career scoring and assists leader in the conference with 1,647 points and 545 assists.

KARLEN BIG EAST Player of the Week
• Liza Karlen was named BIG EAST Player of the Week for her performances in wins against Seton Hall and DePaul.
• This is Karlen's third BIG EAST Player of the Week nod of the season, more than any other player in the conference.
• The senior averaged 24.5 points and 6.0 rebounds, shooting a blazing .760 clip from the floor (19-of-25) and .800 from 3-point range (4-of-5).

CLEANING THE GLASS
• Marquette has outrebounded its opponent in all but one game this season.
• Under Megan Duffy, Marquette is 90-22 when outrebounding the opponent and have only been outrebounded 27 times.
• The Golden Eagles had a season-high 55 rebounds against Bucknell on Thursday, Dec. 21.
• Frannie Hottinger (5th, 8.0) and Liza Karlen (8th, 7.4) are both top-10 in the BIG EAST in rebounds per game, only team in the conference to have two players in the top-10 in rebounds per game.
• MU is first in the BIG EAST and 28th nationally in rebounding margin (+8.6).

HOT SHOOTING GOLDEN EAGLES
• Marquette is second in the BIG EAST and 11th in the nation in shooting percentage (49.2 percent).
• MU has shot 50-percent-or-better in 11-of-17 games this season, the most times shooting 50-percent-or-better in a season in the Megan Duffy era.
• 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.

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