I had long wondered if Marquette women’s basketball was going to end up finding a freshman out in the open after a coaching change to add to the 2026-27 roster. Head coach Cara Consuegra went into the 2025-26 season with six expected roster spots open and just one freshman expected coming in, it seemed like a smart way to bolster the roster. Maybe that made even more sense after four projected returning players went into the transfer portal after the season ended.
In any case, my theory cashed in
on Tuesday, as Kinley Asp, a 5’11” point guard from Colorado, announced her commitment to Marquette. She had previously committed and then signed with Boston College, but Joanna Bernabei-McNamee was let go after posting her worst season with the Eagles at 5-26 as well as her fourth straight losing campaign.
Asp hails from Colorado, where she attends Air Academy High School, which is, believe it or not, a public school in Colorado Springs, not a prep school for the Air Force Academy. It is located on AFA grounds, though. Asp won two Colorado state titles in her freshman and sophomore years at Colorado Springs Christian, and then followed that up with a runner-up performance and a spot in the Great Eight of the state tournament with the Kadets the past two seasons. That’s not a situation where she was carried to those titles by seniors, by the way. Asp put up 29 points, 10 rebounds, four assists, and two steals in the title game in her sophomore season, and that was after a 29 point performance as a freshman, too. This past year, Asp averaged 25.9 points, 7.1 rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 4.4 steals.
Hey, look, a very helpful career stats graphic!
Hey, I’m not trying to tell you that Kinley Asp is poised to be a megastar or anything….. but I am telling you that she has more career Colorado playoff points than Lauren Betts, who just went #4 overall in the WNBA Draft on Monday night.
And now, the new Marquette scholarship chart.
Marquette is now up to six players projected for the 2025-26 season. They still can’t run five player drills in workouts right now, as two of the projected players are Asp and fellow freshman Se’Crette Carter, who will not arrive on campus until this summer at the earliest. As of right now, it certainly looks like Marquette will start two freshmen in the backcourt. I would deeply suggest to Cara Consuegra and her staff that they do not let that come to pass, or at the very least, use the transfer portal to round up at least four more players and get themselves some experienced guard options. Nothing against the collection of Asp, Carter, and redshirt freshman JJ Barnes, but MU needs bodies at the very least right now, and options are crucial.
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