Sim To End: Villanova 64, Marquette 39
On Sunday afternoon at The Finn, Marquette women’s basketball gave up a 12-0 run to Villanova over about seven minutes of game time. That left the score at 14-2, and at the end of the period, it was 16-5 favoring the Wildcats.
One of two things was then going to happen:
- Marquette punches back and it turns into a competitive game at some point and eventually one team or the other wins.
- Marquette has no answer for anything from Villanova on this day and the Wildcats just hold them at arm’s length at best or blow them out at worst.
Friends, it was Option #2.
Marquette got it within seven points in the second quarter for a moment but ultimately went into the locker room down 11, effectively not moving at all from the end of the first. Then the Wildcats scored the first four points of the second half and never led by less than 12 after that, but also never more than 16. 12 was the margin heading to the fourth, and after two Kennedi Perkins free throws to start the frame, Villanova went on a 17-2 run to really establish who was the better team here.
Your final: Villanova 64, Marquette 39.
That was not an encouraging performance after keeping it fairly competitive against #1 UConn just eight days ago.
To be clear: This was a failure of Marquette’s offense. They had allowed just 29 points at halftime and just 43 points through three quarters. Heck, 64 through four quarters isn’t exactly bad. Villanova didn’t shoot over 50% in any of the first three quarters and were under 40% in the middle two quarters of the game. This contest was there for the Golden Eagles to grab it even though they were down double digits almost immediately…
….. They just never did.
22 turnovers didn’t help their case, that’s for sure. However, nine of those came in the first quarter. That means just 13 the rest of the game, and five of those were in the fourth quarter as Villanova blew the game open. Maybe things go a lot different if there’s just four turnovers in each of those bookend periods because that’s really where VU did their damage here, but that also means that Marquette’s offense was just anemic for the middle 20 minutes when they were actually getting shots up.
Up Next: One final home game before one final road game to end the season. Marquette’s home slate wraps up this coming Wednesday night when Xavier comes to Milwaukee. Tipoff is scheduled for 6:30pm Central time, and ESPN+ will have the broadcast. It will be Senior Night, so expect the pre-game festivities to get started pretty early before tipoff because Marquette has eight seniors listed on the roster. As for the Musketeers, they suffered a 76-67 loss to DePaul on Sunday to drop to 11-16 overall and 4-14 in the Big East.
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LaMelo Ball hits career-high 10 3s, scores 37 points to help Hornets rout Wizards
WASHINGTON (AP) — LaMelo Ball made a career-high 10 3-pointers and scored 37 points to help the Charlotte Hornets rout the Washington Wizards 129-112 on Sunday night for a four-game season sweep.
Ball attempted 15 3-pointers. Kon Knueppel added 28 points, and Brandon Miller had 22. The Hornets made 12 of 14 3-pointers in the third quarter to blow open the game, and finished 25 of 46 from long range.
Bilal Coulibaly scored 15 of his 17 points in the first quarter for Washington. The Wizards dropped to 16-40, missing a chance for their first three-game winning streak since February 2025.
Charlotte had lost three of four since a nine-game winning streak ended just before the All-Star break. The Hornets (27-31) are 10th in the Eastern Conference, a half-game behind Atlanta and 1 1/2 games ahead of Milwaukee.
The Hornets led 61-56 at the halft. Miller hit two 3s and Ball added another within Charlotte’s first four possessions of the third quarter to make it 70-56.
Moments later, Knueppel connected on back-to-back 3s to stretch the lead to 15 for the first time. The Wizards never got closer than 13 again.
Knueppel made five 3-pointers and has am NBA-high 198 this season. He's is nine away from surpassing the rookie record set by Keegan Murray in 2022-23.
Up next
Hornets: At Chicago on Tuesday night.
Wzards: At Atlanta on Tuesday night.
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Nebraska baseball falls to Kansas State 5-3
Nebraska (3-3) continued the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series on Saturday night against Kansas State (5-1). Despite holding a 3-1 lead through five, the Huskers fell to the Wildcats 5-3.
Nebraska took the lead in the third, going up 2-1 following a two-RBI double from Joshua Overbeek. Jeter Worthley scored the Huskers' third run on an error after Case Sanderson reached first on a fielder's choice. Mac Moyer led Nebraska at the plate, hitting 2-for-3.
Kansas State's Carlos Vasquez lifted the Wildcats to victory by finishing 3-for-4 with four RBIs, delivering runs in three separate innings. Nebraska finished the game with six hits and an error. Kansas State got just four hits, but seven walks.
J’Shawn Unger (0-1) took the loss at the mound for the Huskers, throwing one strikeout and surrendering one hit and one run through 1.1 innings. Carson Jasa started the game for Nebraska, pitching 5.2 innings, throwing eight strikeouts against two hits, four walks and three runs. Grant Cleavinger allowed one run off a walk. Kevin Mannell and Chase Olson each pitched one inning and faced four batters. Both allowed no runs.
Nebraska concludes the series on Sunday afternoon against No. 16 Florida State. The first pitch is set for 2:30 p.m. CT on FloCollege.com.
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