The competition was supposed to be much tougher, but the result stayed the same as the Gophers women’s basketball team again won with ease.
Grace Grocholski scored 19 points and grabbed eight rebounds, Tori McKinney scored 16 points, and Minnesota routed Marquette 90-47 Tuesday night at Williams Arena.
Brylee Glenn scored 13 points and Mara Braun added nine points, seven assists and six rebounds for the 3-0 Gophers, who beat North Dakota 91-47 and Manhattan 99-36 last week.
Sophie Hart had 14 points inside, and Amaya Battle grabbed a team-high 11 rebounds and had seven assists. The Gophers shot 50.7%, outscored the Golden Eagles 48-12 in the paint and had a 47-28 rebounding advantage.
Picked to finish second in the Big East Conference behind national power Connecticut, Marquette was led by 13 points from Lee Volker. This was the second straight Big Ten opponent for the Golden Eagles, who erased an eight-point deficit in the final three minutes Friday to beat Wisconsin 65-62 in overtime.
The game’s opening seconds set the tone in this one.
Marquette won the tip, but McKinney made a steal and scored on a layup a mere eight seconds in.
McKinney had seven points in an 11-0 Minnesota run to start the game. The Golden Eagles (2-1) got within three, but a 7-0 run capped by a Grocholski 3-pointer at the buzzer gave Minnesota a 22-12 lead.
Four players scored in an 11-2 second-quarter surge as the Gophers shot 45.2% in the first half with a trey by Makena Christian providing a 19-point lead at the break.
A 21-3 run over the final six minutes of the third quarter and first three of the fourth upped Minnesota’s lead to 70-37.
Marquette shot 32.7% from the field and had just three free-throw attempts.
Minnesota welcomes the New Jersey Institute of Technology at 5 p.m. Friday before travelling to Kansas on Nov. 19.
Minnesota forward Finau Tonga, center, drives to the basket between Marquette guard Olivia Porter, left, and forward Jada Bediako in the first half during an NCAA basketball game on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025 in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)
Since the Gophers lost Mara Braun to a foot injury, sophomore Minnesota’s Grace Grocholski, right, ledas the team in scoriing with a 12.7-point average. (Brad Rempel / Gophers Athletics)
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