Marquette hasn’t laced it up for a game since December 22nd. That was a 60-49 victory over Cincinnati at the McGuire Center that moved the Golden Eagles to 9-3 overall this season.
Part of the problem is that Marquette had a visit to UConn dashed by the Golden Eagles encountering a COVID problem coming out of Christmas break. The other part of the problem isn’t really a problem at all, as that UConn game was the only game that Marquette had scheduled between the 22nd and Friday. MU was naturally supposed to have a week and a half off after visiting the Huskies, so that undoubtedly helped head coach Megan Duffy and her staff manage whatever layoff from practice that they had to undergo because of the COVID shutdown.