And so we begin the 2020-21 Marquette women’s basketball season with, well, not great expectations, but positive expectations.
With very little actual in-game experience returning, along with almost no on-court continuity and six freshmen, head coach Megan Duffy did the only thing she knows how to do: Coach a team to more than 20 wins. After doing that in her first two seasons as a head coach at Miami-Ohio, Duffy guided the Golden Eagles to a 24-8 record in her initial season in Milwaukee. The curtain on the season got dropped before the NCAA tournament field was even announced thanks to the coronavirus, but after finishing second in the league in the regular season and making it to the Big East title game after being picked to finish ninth in last year’s preseason poll, the year can’t be called anything but an unqualified success.