WBB Drops Road Contest at Villanova

PHILADELPHIA - The No. 22/22 Marquette women's basketball team fell 66-63 to Villanova on Wednesday night at Finneran Pavilion.

Marquette (15-3, 4-3 BIG EAST) was led by Mackenzie Hare, who had 21 points on 5-of-10 shooting from deep.

Liza Karlen (16) and Jordan King (13) joined Hare in double-figures.

The game saw six ties and just one lead change. The biggest leads of the game belonged to Marquette, who started the game with a 7-0 run and led 63-56 with 3:54 remaining in the fourth.

A 10-0 run in the last 3:43 swung the game in the Wildcats favor. A Lucy Olsen layup with 29 seconds remaining gave the home team their first lead of the game, 64-63.

The BIG EAST's leading scorer added two free throws with 12 seconds remaining to grow the lead to three that would stay.

Villanova (12-5, 5-1 BIG EAST) was led by Olsen who had a game-high 37 points on 12-of-19 shooting.

NOTABLES:

Jordan King moved into ninth on the all-time scoring list, passing Lisa Oldenburg (1996-00) with 1,660 career points. King is the active career scoring leader in the BIG EAST.
Mackenzie Hare hit her 100th 3-pointer of her career tonight. The sophomore reached 100 career 3's in 49 games, fastest since Natisha Hiedeman (43 games), who is first all-time in career 3's with 301 from 2015-19.
Sixth game this season Mackenzie Hare has hit five 3's.
Rose Nkumu had six assists, her eighth game of the season with five-or-more assists.

UP NEXT:

Marquette hosts No. 9/10 UConn next Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 6 p.m. CT.

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