POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Marist women's basketball returns to Poughkeepsie for the first time this season on Sunday afternoon as the Red Foxes play host to Cornell in the 2024-25 home opener. Tip-off from McCann Arena is set for 2 p.m. on ESPN+.
 

LAST TIME OUT

• Redshirt junior Lexie Tarul scored a career-best 17 points to lead the Marist women's basketball team, but it wasn't enough as Drexel downed the Red Foxes, 64-53, in the 2024-25 season-opener inside the Daskalakis Athletic Center Thursday evening.
• Morgan Lee added 16 points, four rebounds, and a career-high four assists.

MARVELOUS MORGAN

• Junior Morgan Lee returns for her junior campaign in 2024-25.
• Lee opened the season with 16 points, four rebounds and a career-high four assists against Drexel on Nov. 7.
• Last season Lee averaged 6.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game.
• Lee's 38 blocks and 1.2 blocks per game was tops on the team and ranked fourth in the MAAC in both categories.
• She reached double-figure point totals in four of her last eight games to close the 2023-24 campaign.
• She tallied career-high totals of 20 points in two of Marist's last three games of the season.

LIGHTS OUT LEXIE

• Redshirt junior Lexie Tarul returns for her second year with the Red Foxes.
• Tarul scored a career-high 17 points in the opener against Drexel on Nov. 7, knocking down three three-pointers in the process.
• Last season, Tarul led the team with 52 made three-pointers.
• Tarul returns as Marist's leading scorer from a season ago at 7.3 points per game.
• Tarul made a three-point field goal in 27 of her 31 appearances last season.
• She made three or more three-pointers in seven games.

 

SCOUTING THE BIG RED

• Cornell is led by Emily Garner, who is in her first season at the helm of the program.
• Cornell was picked to finish seventh in the Ivy League Preseason Coaches' Poll.
• Cornell is 1-1 on the season entering Sunday's contest against the Red Foxes.
• The Big Red downed Army West Point, 60-54, on the road in its opener this past Monday.
• Cornell then came up short on the road at Rutgers, 72-61, in its last time out on Nov. 7.
• Emily Pape leads Cornell with 15.0 points and 10.0 rebounds per game, while Clarke Jackson is averaging 13.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.

HISTORY VS CORNELL

• Sunday's contest against Cornell will mark Marist's 10th contest against the Big Red.
• The Red Foxes are 6-3 all-time against the Big Red.
• Marist is averaging 63.1 points per game in the series.
• The Red Foxes are 4-0 inside McCann Arena against Cornell.
• Marist has won two of the last three contests against the Big Red.
• The last time the two sides faced off, the Big Red downed the Red Foxes, 74-61, on Dec. 21, 2023.
• Catie Cunningham led Marist with 18 points and six rebounds in the loss.

NEXT TIME OUT

• Marist will be back in action on Wednesday, Nov. 13, when the Red Foxes play host to Lafayette.
• Tip-off inside the McCann Center is set for 7 p.m. on ESPN+.

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