WBB Set For Crosstown Tilt With Milwaukee On Wednesday

MILWAUKEE – The Marquette women’s basketball team will play its fourth game of the season in Milwaukee on Wednesday night, traveling across town to face the Panthers. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. CT and will steam on ESPN+.

THE STARTING FIVE

• Marquette got back to its winning ways last Friday night, defeating Bowling Green 71-55 at the Al McGuire Center. The Golden Eagles moved to 16-2 at home under Cara Consuegra.
• For the first time this season, Marquette saw four players in double figures in the scoring column on Friday. Lee Volker poured in 23 points, the second-most in a game in her career, on 9-of-14 shooting. Halle Vice added 18 and Skylar Forbes and Jaidynn Mason each had 11.
• The win was Consuegra’s 249th as a head coach. The second-year Marquette head coach came to Milwaukee in 2024 with 225 wins in 13 seasons at Charlottle.
• Marquette and Milwaukee will be meeting for the 55th time on Wednesday night. The Golden Eagles hold the all-time series lead at 34-20 and have won 18 of the 20 games played during the 21st Century.
• 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.

BY THE NUMBERS

56.9 – Marquette shot a blistering 56.9% from the field versus Bowling Green. It was the highest mark for MU in a game since Jan. 13, 2024.

11 – Since 2000, Marquette and Milwaukee have squared off 20 times, 11 of those have resulted in a double-digit win for the Golden Eagles. MU’s margin of victory in its 18 wins is 12.6.

10.0 – In Marquette’s three wins, the Golden Eagles have outscored each of their opponents in the second half. The result has been a +10.0 scoring difference for MU in those three second halves.

FLASHING BACK – GAME 4 vs. MILWAUKEE

• Marquette earned its first win over Bowling Green after dropping the previous two in the all-time series.
• For the first time this season, four Golden Eagles reached double figures in the scoring column.
• Marquette shot a season-high 56.9% from the field. It was the highest field-goal percentage for the Golden Eagles in a game since Jan. 13, 2024 versus DePaul.
• MU had 20+ assists for the second time this season, dishing out 24.
• Three players had at least four assists with Jaidynn Mason leading the way with seven, matching her career high.
• Lee Volker poured in a season-high 23 points. It was her fifth career 20-point game and was one shy of her career high.
• Halle Vice scored a season-high 18 points.
• Skylar Forbes matched her career high in blocks with five.

CROSSTOWN RIVAL
The Golden Eagles and Panthers will be meeting for the 55th time on Wednesday night. Marquette owns the overall series lead at 34-20 but have been dominant since the turn of the century, winning 18 of the last 20 contests since 2000. The two losses for MU both came at the Al McGuire Center.

• Marquette has won 11 straight on its rival’s court dating back to 1997.
• Cara Consuegra is no stranger to facing Milwaukee. MU was 3-1 during her time as an assistant coach. In her first game against the Panthers as MU’s head coach, the Golden Eagles won decisively, 69-51, on Dec. 15, 2024.

APPROACHING 250
With 225 wins in her 13 seasons at as the head coach at Charlotte, Cara Consuegra came to Marquette needing just 25 to hit the 250 mark for her career. With 21 last year, and three through the opening two weeks of the season, Consuegra is just one win away from 250.
ONE OF ONE
Not just a shot blocker, not just a 3-point shooter, Skylar Forbes is proving early this season that she is both. Forbes is currently shooting 52.9% from deep while also posting 2.75 blocks per game.

• Forbes is the only player in the country currently averaging 2.5 blocks per game and shooting over 50% from 3 (min. 5 attempts).

USING HER LENGTH
While not a prototypical post, 6-foot-3 Skylar Forbes uses her length well on the defensive end. After breaking the Marquette record for blocks in a season last year with 56, the junior hasn’t slowed up. Adding 11 more to total this season, she is up to 99 for her career.

• Forbes sits seventh on MU’s all-time blocks list, and is just two back of tying Heidi Ach for sixth.

HEATING UP
Slow to start this season, Lee Volker has begun to hit her stride through two weeks. With just 19 points during the opening week of play the 6-foot-1 guard combined for 36 last week, including a season-high 23 points last Friday against Bowling Green. Volker was 9-of-14 against the Falcons. The 64.3% shooting performance was a near 30% jump from her previous high this year.

• Volker has eight made 3-pointers on the season with six of those coming in the past week.

VICE GRIP
Marquette’s top rebounder a season ago, preseason All-BIG EAST selection Halle Vice has showed no let up on the glass through five games this year. The junior’s 9.2 rebounds per game currently leads the BIG EAST.

• Vice had double-digit rebounding numbers in her first two outings and missed the mark by just one in her third.

GET TO THE LINE
In each of the Golden Eagles’ first two games, MU attempted at least 18 free throws. At Minnesota, they attempted just three. The charity stripe has been just that–charity for Marquette–as the team is shooting 78.4%, the 36th-highest mark in the NCAA this year.

• Of Marquette’s 51 attempts, Jaidynn Mason has 16, connecting on 14 (87.5%). The senior though did not get to the line against Bowling Green, a first for MU’s point guard this season.

THEY’RE ALL BACK…WITH ADDITIONS
With fifth years awarded to Abbey Cracknell and Lee Volker, Marquette heads into the 2025-26 season as the only Division I women’s basketball team to return every player from its 2024-25 roster.

• Of the returners, two are fifth years, six are seniors and five are juniors.
• Additionally, MU added three players in transfer Jordan Muelemens and freshmen JJ Barnes and Kam Herring.

ONE OF THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY
On Oct. 30, Marquette’s Skylar Forbes was selected to the 2025-26 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch List, presented by AXIA Time. The 6-foot-3 junior forward was one of 50 student-athletes named to the watch list.

• Of the 50 players on the watch list, Forbes is just one of five from outside the Power 4.

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.