Photo by Andrew Himmelberg
The Marquette Golden Eagles started their first-round NCAA Tournament matchup with Dayton in the same uninspired way last year’s loss to Quinnipiac began. Hardly anything was falling. The team missed nine of its first 10 field goals. It looked like Marquette’s first NCAA Tournament win since 2007 would have to wait.
Junior guard Natisha Hiedeman had different intentions.
Hiedeman scored the team’s first 15 points on her way to breaking a program record for points in an NCAA Tournament game with 32. She also broke the program record for 3-pointers in an NCAA Tournament game with eight to guide Marquette to an 84-65 victory.