{"id":798901,"date":"2026-07-14T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798901\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:38:09","slug":"marquette-womens-basketball-announces-a-home-home-series-with-missouri-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798901\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquette Women\u2019s Basketball Announces A Home & Home Series With Missouri State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we already have the Marquette men\u2019s basketball non-conference schedule for the 2026-27 season, it\u2019s only a matter of time before we get the MU women\u2019s basketball non-con slate as well. In the meantime, the team has teased us with one of the road games on the board for this coming fall. On Monday, Marquette announced that head coach Cara Consuegra will be taking her team to Springfield, Missouri, for the front end of a home-and-home series with Missouri State. That game is scheduled for Friday, November 13th, which is towards the end of the second week of the season. The other end of the set will be a game between the Golden Eagles and the Bears at the McGuire Center at some point in November or December of 2027.<\/p>\n

Now, at first glance, you might be saying to yourself: Hey, wait, Marquette plays in the Big East and at least tries to present itself as a high major program. Why are they visiting Missouri State \u2014 a non-power conference opponent \u2014 much less making a big deal about announcing a home-and-home set with the Bears?<\/p>\n

I can answer the first part pretty simply: Cara Consuegra has shown a willingness to take her team anywhere already. Year One of the Consuegra era had Marquette on the road against Bowling Green before returning that contest in Milwaukee this past season. The Falcons were in the top 180 in the BartTorvik.com rankings<\/a> in both years, so that was a pretty solid entry on the slate in both instances, it just didn\u2019t have an announcement attached to it like this.<\/p>\n

So why announce this one? Because Missouri State has been in the NCAA field five times in the last 10 tournaments, and it would have been six in the last 11 if the 2020 event hadn\u2019t been canceled. The Bears were 26-4 at the time and ranked in the AP poll on March 2nd, their 12th week in the poll that season. Because Missouri State has a stronger history of postseason performance than Marquette, making 18 total appearances in the NCAA tournament to just 15 for the Golden Eagles. Because Missouri State actually has two Final Four banners hanging in their arena. Is the most recent one from 2001? Mind your business, because Marquette hasn\u2019t even made it to a Sweet 16.<\/p>\n

Missouri State brings back their top three scorers from last season, led by 17.4 per game from 5\u20199\u201d guard Kaemyn Bekemeier. I would imagine that there\u2019s a pretty solid chance that Bekemeier will be the CUSA Preseason Player of the Year, and beyond that, those same three top scorers are the top three rebounders on last year\u2019s squad, led by 8.2 per game from \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 Kaemyn Bekemeier.<\/p>\n

If Missouri State holds to their historical form, this is going to be a better road game for Marquette\u2019s NCAA tournament hopes than most of Big East play. It\u2019s a little bit of a risk for Cara Consuegra, but it\u2019s a risk that has some payoff for the Golden Eagles as long as the Bears hold up their end of the deal no matter what the result in Springfield actually is in November.<\/p>\n

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