The Al McGuire Center was shaking, everybody on their feet, yelling in support of their team. With just over three minutes to play, Marquette women’s basketball was up by one point and the game was on a knife-edge.
That is when seniors Jordan King and Liza Karlen went to work.
Scoring Marquette’s last nine points, King and Karlen secured the Golden Eagles’ hard-fought 71-67 win over the No. 23 Illinois Fighting Illini Saturday afternoon.
“We knew it was going to be a battle,” Karlen said. “Illinois prides itself on rebounding, so do we. They have a great starting five and a great six man as well, so they returned everyone and have that established chemistry.