WBB Travels to Villanova For Sunday Afternoon Contest

Sunday, February 22

Villanova, PA

2:30 P.M. CT

Marquette University

Villanova

WBB Travels to Villanova For Sunday Afternoon Contest

2/20/2026 4:15:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Game to broadcast on Peacock and NBCSN

By: Communications

MILWAUKEE - The Marquette women's basketball team travels to the No. 2 team in the BIG EAST this weekend in Villanova. The Golden Eagles will look for their first season sweep of the Wildcats since 2021.

Tipoff at Finneran Pavilion is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. CT. Adam Giardino (pxp) and Julianne Viani-Braen (analyst) will be on the call for Peacock/NBCSN.

THE STARTING FIVE

Marquette enters Sunday's contest riding a three-game losing streak after falling 71-56 to UConn on Feb. 14. This came after the team's longest winning streak of the season at five. The losing streak is MU's longest since Dec. 21-31 which included defeats to Colorado, Villanova and UConn.
With Skylar Forbes crossing the 1,000-point mark for her career on Feb. 14, she joined Jaidynn Mason as the Golden Eagles' 1,000-point scorers. While Mason accomplished the feat across two programs (Southern Illinois and Marquette), Forbes scored every one of her points at MU. Lee Volker has a chance to join her teammates in the 1,000-point club as the graduate currently sits at 943 points.
With just three games remaining in the regular season, Forbes has picked her production back up in recent weeks. With just 59 points during a six-game stretch during the middle of conference play, the junior has scored 74 in the last four games (18.5 ppg). Forbes has been named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll in each of the past two weeks.
Despite not having posted a double-double in the past three games, Halle Vice continues to lead the BIG EAST with 10. It is two more than Creighton's Grace Boffeli and three ahead of UConn's Sarah Strong. The 10 double-doubles ranks 29th in the NCAA.
Marquette's strength this season comes in its experience and continuity as the program is the only one in Division I women's college basketball to return all of its players from the 2024-25 season. Though everyone returned, the Golden Eagles have had just two games this season (Winthrop, Georgetown) with everyone available (excluding J.J. Barnes and Aryelle Stevens who were ruled out for the year heading into the season). Starting guard Olivia Porter was lost for the season due to an injury sustained on Feb. 1.

BY THE NUMBERS
15 - On Feb. 14, Marquette held No. 1 UConn to a season-low 71 points. MU's 15-point margin of defeat was the third-closest game for the Huskies until Villanova lost by 14 four days later.
61.1% - During the first meeting this season with Villanova, Marquette shot 61.1% from 3. It was one of two games this year that has seen MU shoot over 61% from deep.
4 - Marquette has not lost four games in a row since the start of the 2015-16 season

FLASHING BACK - GAME 26 VS UCONN

Last Saturday marked just the third time Marquette has hosted a No. 1 team (0-3).
Marquette is 0-9 all-time against No. 1. Eight of those contests came against UConn.
Marquette held UConn to its lowest point total in a first quarter this season (13), the lowest in a half (36) and the lowest in a game (71).
The loss was just MU's second of the year when outrebounding its opponent (13-2).
MU was outscored 28-11 in points of turnovers. The Golden Eagles have lost that stat in all 10 of its losses.
Skylar Forbes eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for her career. The junior finished with 15 points to give her 1,011 points in her career.
Jaidynn Mason collected a team-high eight rebounds, her first time leading Marquette on the glass this season.

HISTORY WITH THE WILDCATS

Marquette and Villanova will meet for the 40th time in their history.
MU holds a slim lead in the series at 21-18.
While the Golden Eagles hold the edge overall, the Wildcats have nine of the the 16 games since 2020.
MU has dropped its last four games against at Finneran Pavilion with its last win on Villanova's home court coming on Jan. 27, 2021 (95-77).

1,000-POINT TEAMMATES
When Skylar Forbes crossed the 1,000-point mark for her career on Feb. 14 against UConn, it gave the Golden Eagles two active 1,000-point scorers. Forbes joined Jaidynn Mason who eclipsed the milestone on Jan. 21, 2026 at St. John's.

It took Forbes 87 games to reach 1,000 points. She is currently at 1,010 points with every point coming for Marquette.
Mason reached her 1,000th point in her 102nd game. She is currently at 1,077 points with 523 of those coming for Marquette while the other 554 came at South Illinois.
A third player could join Forbes and Mason as Lee Volker is sitting on 943 points.

DIALING UP FROM LONG DISTANCE
A 41.5% 3-point shooter a season ago, Lee Volker has bumped that number up to 43.8% this year and ranks 14th in the NCAA. That number has the grad student 3.2% behind her former AAU teammate Azzi Fudd for the top spot in the BIG EAST.