Marian University women’s basketball (0-1, 0-0 NACC) dropped its first game of the season 73-44 to a UW-Superior team picked to win its conference.
 

• After some back-and-forth, UW-Superior scored 13 straight points to lead 20-7 and 3:05 left in the first quarter.
• The Yellowjackets maintained a double-digit lead by 26-15 at the first horn of the night.
• UWS build its lead to 15 points before Marian showed some life with an 8-1 run to only trail eight.
• A strong finish to the quarter from UW-Superior saw the Yellowjackets take a 38-24 lead into the break after a 7-1 spurt.
• Marian stayed in the game only trailing 46-34 with 2:35 left in the third quarter before UWS pulled away with a 10-1 run.
• UWS was able to outscore Marian 17-9 in the final quarter to put the final score at 73-44.

• UW-Superior won the turnover battle by a 23-10 margin and scored 33 points off the Sabre miscues to only four for MU.
• The Yellowjackets had a slim 30-22 advantage in the paint and 14-7 edge in second-chance points.
• The Marian bench outscored the UWS bench by a narrow 28-27 margin.
• The Sabres finished with a 41-38 edge in rebounds.
• Marian shot just 27.5 percent from the field, 1-of-9 (.111) on three pointers, while UWS was 28-of-66 (.424) from the field and 4-of-26 (.154) from beyond the arc.
• Marian has lost all four meetings with UWS in the all-time series.

	Junior Chelsea King was the lone Sabre with doulbe-digit points scoring 10.
	Senior Lexi Brakebush had seven points to go with five rebounds and two steals.