The Syracuse Women host Marquette Sunday

The Ladies will try to rebound from their loss at Georegtown last Saturday against Marquette in the Dome Sunday at 2 PM.

The Lady Orange are 17-4 and 5-3 in the conference while Marquette is 13-9 and 5-4 in conference.

The Golden Eagles have a few quality wins, but also have a couple puzzling losses. They lost to a terrible Oregon and an even worse Northwestern team. NU has just four wins this year, one of them being against Marquette. On the flip side, they beat SU's last opponent Georgetown at home, and also beat DePaul at home. They've also shown an ability to win on the road against a tough opponent when they beat UW-Green Bay who's 17-4 out of the Horizon League. Marquette's RPI is 75. For a complete look at their schedule, check out realtimerpi.com.

Marquette is an extremely deep team as they consistently go ten deep. Krystal Ellis leads the team in scoring at 19.1 per and is the only Golden Eagle averaging double digit points. Ellis is the team's only three point threat. She's the only player on the team to average one three-pointer per game. As a team, Marquette only shoots 26.6% from behind the arc. Look for the SU zone to try to force MU into as many three point attempts as possible.

The Golden Eagles best post player is Svetlana Kovalenko. Yes, she is Russian, and she's 6'3'', but she attended high school in Michigan. Svetlana averages 8.4 ppg and 7.9 rpg.

As a whole Marquette is a terrible shooting team, but does a lot of the intangibles well. Case and point, they shoot just 40% from the field, 27% from three, and 65% from the line. They do however out rebound their opponents by three a game and record more than 12 steals a game. As a whole, they force 22 turnovers a game.

Keys for the Orange:

• Chandra Jones can't get into foul trouble. She did against Georgetown and the Orange lost.
• Active 2-3 zone. Don't let Marquette penetrate. Force MU into three pointers, my high school church league team shoots better than them for three.
• Don't the ball over. If the Golden Eagles have any chance in this game they are going to have force upwards of 22 turnovers, their season average, to compete with the Orange.

CuseAdelphia prediction: Syracuse 76, Marquette 68. Marquette has played a lot of close Big East games and this should be another. It will be interesting to see what kind of impact the Dome crowd which has been up over 3,000 people the last two games will have on the Golden Eagles.