It doesn’t matter whether the opposing team is playing man-to-man or zone. The Marist women’s basketball team is going to score.

And score they did Friday night, racking up 52 first-half points en route to a 93-65 defeat of Northeastern at Solomon Court.

It didn’t help that the Huskies (0-3) weren’t executing their defense properly in the first half, either.

“Our [defensive] alignment wasn’t right,” said head coach Daynia La-Force Mann. “We couldn’t cover the perimeter because our alignment in the 3-2 wasn’t right. We went man in the second half, but we went man against [Marist’s] subs and they still scored 41 points in the second half.”

The game started sluggish, as neither team scored until Marist forward Rachele Fritz sank a jumper from the paint to give the Red Foxes a 2-0 lead at 17:56. Fritz was a problem for the Huskies all night, as the junior scored a career-high 36 points on 15-of-17 shooting and pulled down nine rebounds.

Northeastern collected its first points when sophomore guard Jasmine Crew’s pull-up jumper found the net at 17:09. Crew started the game at point guard, and La-Force Mann said she will likely be there for the rest of the year. Freshman Brittany Wilson started in Crew’s normal guard spot.

A little over a minute later, junior forward Kim Carr hit a jumper to cut Marist’s lead to 5-4.

But the Red Foxes (2-0) dashed any hope the Huskies had of staying close with a 13-0 run. In the first half, Marist was 20-of-35 (57.1 percent) from the floor, including 7-of-17 from 3-point range.

Conversely, the Huskies were just 11-of-35 (31.4 percent), including a 1-of-11 mark from beyond the arc.

“Our offense totally dictated what we were going to do the rest of the game,” La-Force Mann said. “Just because we weren’t hitting shots, we didn’t communicate on defense and then we stopped boxing out. We put ourselves in a hole in the first half because mentally we took ourselves out of the game. They didn’t do anything we didn’t expect them to.”

One bright spot for the Huskies was the play of Carr, who finished with 21 points and eight rebounds, both tops on the team.

“We’ve seen the improvement in Kim Carr since the preseason and I think this is the first game that she’s really shown how much better she’s gotten since last year,” La-Force Mann said. “Our team was always known as a perimeter-oriented team and its important to establish our inside game early in the season.”

For Carr, it was just a matter of gaining the trust of her teammates.

“I just wanted to finish and show my guards that I can and will finish the ball and score, and let them have faith in me,” she said.

The Huskies received a spark in the second half from their bench. Freshman guards Dani Iervolino and Kashaia Cannon finished with identical stat lines (11 points, 4-of-8 from the floor, including 3-of-7 from 3-point range).

Senior guard and co-captain Ashlee Feldman was honored prior to the game for scoring her 1,000th career point in the Huskies’ season opener against St. John’s.

Northeastern will take on Boston University (2-2) in the “Battle of Boston” at 5 p.m. tomorrow at Matthews Arena.