INDIANAPOLIS – The IUPUI women's basketball team fell to Marquette on Wednesday night in the Jungle, 92-58. Graduate transfer Tahlia Walton led the Jaguar offense with 14 points in her first game with IUPUI.
 
Marquette (3-0), coming off a victory over No. 23 Illinois 71-67 on Saturday (Nov. 11), got off to a quick start, leading to an early advantage. Sophomore Mackenzie Hare led her team early, scoring six of the first 11 points.  
 
After being held scoreless for most of the first quarter, Katie Davidson—the Jags' leading scorer—led a 6-0 run that tied the game at 15 just before the end of the quarter. In her first game in a Jaguar uniform, graduate transfer Thalia Walton led the team in scoring with five points in the opening ten minutes. 
 
The Golden Eagles would go on a run of their own, scoring the game's next eight points. Defensively, the visitors picked up the intensity to start the second quarter, holding the Jags scoreless for three-plus minutes. 
 
IUPUI's offensive struggles continued throughout the quarter, shooting just 30 percent from the field. On the other end, Marquette shot just below 50 percent and outscored the hosts 25-11 to take a 16-point lead into halftime.  
 
Following a two-point first quarter, the Golden Eagles' leading scorer, Jordan King, led all scorers with nine points in the second stanza. Hare was the other player to reach double digits in the opening half,  
 
Out of the break, the home team scored the first five points, forcing a timeout from head coach Megan Duffy in the opening minute of the half. Duffy's team executed out of the timeout, scoring yet another second-chance basket. However, on the other side, Walton buried a triple to cut the deficit to ten.  
 
Marquette would go on a 18-4 run to garner its largest lead of the game, 66-42. Jaela Johnson, Logan Lewis, and Abby Wolterman would each knock down shots from behind the arc in the closing minutes of play to cut the deficit to 21 heading to the final quarter.  
 
The Jags were outscored 22-9 in the final quarter of the game falling, 92-58.
 
Walton led the Jags in scoring with 14 points while Abby Wolterman added 11 and Logan Lewis totaled 10. Wolterman also added a team-high eight rebounds.
 
IUPUI is now 1-2 and will next travel to Chicago to face UIC on Sunday, Nov. 19 with tipoff set for 2:00 PM.