The Latest: Indiana State withdraws from Gulf Coast Showcase--Associated Press
Milwaukee has paused all team-related men’s basketball activities and has canceled the season-opening MKE Classic event it was set to host due to a positive COVID-19 case within its program.
The MKE Classic was supposed to be a three-day event beginning Friday and featuring Milwaukee, Southern Mississippi and North Dakota State.
Milwaukee officials said there was a positive test within the men’s basketball program’s Tier 1 personnel. Tier 1 members include players, coaches, team managers and support staff.
UWM pauses all men's basketball activities after positive COVID-19 result--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee Pausing All Men’s Basketball Team Activities--mkepanthers.com
Marquette Women’s Basketball Announces Four Non-Conference Games--
Milwaukee Panthers
2019-20 Record: 15-16, with an 11-7 record in the Horizon League
2019-20 Final Her Hoop Stats Ranking: #241
Head Coach: Kyle Rechlicz, entering her ninth season with a record of 119-130.
All-Time Series: Marquette leads, 31-19, and has won eight straight.Last year, Marquette blitzed UWM over on the east side for a 78-56 win where they were up 9-0 in less than three minutes and led by double digits for almost all of the second quarter onwards til the final horn. If you wanted to suspect that more of the same might be on the way this season, well, the Panthers have lost three of their top five scorers from last season.
Of course, given that no one on the team averaged more than 10 points per game a year ago, it’s not like the three women who aren’t returning were ultra crucial to the Panthers last year. Leaders, sure, but it’s not like it’s hard to find multiple someones to average eight points a game.
Brandi Bisping did lead the team in scoring a year ago, and she is back for her senior season now. She’s a preseason all-Horizon League Second Teamer after averaging 9.3 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per game. As a team, UWM is picked to finish seventh in the Horizon League this season. FUN FACT: Green Bay is not the pick to win that league this season, which is pretty damn wild to think about.
UWM was a very good free throw shooting team a year ago and a very good two-point shooting team a year ago. Of course, given those two strengths, we have to question why Rechlicz had them taking 35% of their shots (47th most in the country) from behind the arc. Go to the rim! Draw fouls! It’s what you’re good at! Nope, they shot a buncha threes at a 30.1% clip, which even if it wasn’t #224 in the country, it would still be awful.
The Panthers were the 15th best defensive rebounding team in the country last season. That’s something that was a strength for the Golden Eagles a year ago as well. However, Marquette lost the services of Altia Anderson to graduation, and thus will have to rely on freshmen to take up that spot in the rotation. Will that lead to a dropoff and thus something that Milwaukee can take advantage of? We’ll see?
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