When Marquette women’s basketball tips-off the 2024-25 season Thursday night at UCF, it will mark the start of a new era for the program under Cara Consuegra.
But, it will not actually be the first Golden Eagles’ game that Consuegra spent as the head coach.
Everyone by now knows that Consuegra served as an assistant coach at Marquette from 2004-11 — what less people know is that for one half in 2011 against an undefeated West Virginia team ranked 6th in the country, Consuegra not only assumed the role of gaffer, but walked away having handed the Musketeers’ their first defeat of the season.