Friday, Nov. 9 - Sunday, Nov. 11
Highlights
SMU 49, Louisiana Monroe 38
Senior forward Alicia Froling's 37th career double-double led SMU women's basketball to a 49-38, season-opening win over Louisiana-Monroe at Moody Coliseum Friday afternoon.
In her first game since the 2016-17season, Froling poured in 19 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and recorded three steals, all game highs. Her 37 double-doubles rank second-highest in program history, just one behind Janielle Dodds and Shasta Smothers-Johnson (38).
The Mustangs (1-0) have won all three of their season-opening games under third-year head coach Travis Mays. The Warhawks drop to 0-1 with the loss.
After ULM cut SMU's lead to 23-20 early in the third quarter, Froling finished three consecutive lay-ups to push the Mustangs to a 29-20 advantage. SMU outscored ULM 16-11 in the third quarter, giving the Mustangs a comfortable lead to close out the game in the fourth.
Temple 58, Saint Joseph’s 52
The Temple women's basketball team needed a late defensive hold and got it, sealing a gritty Philadelphia Big 5 win over Saint Joseph's, 58-52, at Hagan Arena. The victory gives Temple a 2-0 record to start the young season, while the Hawks open with an 0-1 mark.
Sophomore Desiree Oliver was a rebound shy of her first career double-double, tallying team-best totals of 15 points and nine boards, adding a pair of steals. Sophomore Mia Davis finished with 12 points and six rebounds, while graduate student Alliya Butts had 12 points.
Temple started the fourth quarter with a six point lead, which was quickly erased by a 6-0 SJU run.The Owls went up by seven backed by five points from Oliver, before SJU cut it two a two-point game twice.
Up by two, Temple came up with a pair of offensive rebounds, a big defensive stop, and then iced the game on the line to win 58-52.
Temple finished the game with a 43-32 advantage on the glass, and out-shot the Hawks, 38% to 32%.
ECU 73, Monmouth 67
Five free throws by Lashonda Monk in the final seconds helped the ECU women's basketball team hold off Monmouth for a 73-67 win on Friday night inside Minges Coliseum.
After a more than five minute scoring drought to open the fourth and ECU clinging to a 60-59 lead, Monk picked off a Monmouth pass and then dished to Campbell who was fouled. Campbell buried both free throws and then hit a jump shot on the next ECU possession for a 64-61 lead. Hicks followed with a layup to stretch the margin to five. Monmouth answered with a pair of buckets of their own to make it 66-65.
A layup by Johnson was answered by a Monmouth jumper to make it a one-point game inside a minute left. With the shot clock winding down, Monk drove down the right side of the lane and was fouled. The sophomore from Greensboro stepped to the line and knocked down both attempts to give ECU some breathing room. After an ECU stop, Monmouth was forced to foul Monk again and once again, she made both free throws. Monk added one more from the stripe with just six seconds remaining to close out the win.
Destiny Campbell finished with 17 points on 7-of-9 shooting and finished with a team-high seven blocked shots. The seven rejections are tied for the third-most in a single game in program history, trailing only Marcia Girven's 12 in 1977 and Ondrea Shaw's 10 in 2014.
USF 74, Albany 37
No. 22/21 USF women's basketball defeated America East opponent Albany 74-37 at the Yuengling Center on Friday Nov. 9 in front of a season-opening 2,269 fans.
The Bulls blasted the Great Danes out of the Yuengling Center, doubling up the score on the six-time America East champions. USF improved to 2-0 on the year and improved their home-opener record to 16-3 under head coach Jose Fernandez in his 19th year. Senior Laura Ferreira had a stellar night with 21 points, nearly tying her career-high 24 points. Ferreira's outing was her best offensive effort since Dec. 20, 2017 when she scored 22 points.
USF was backed by a 42.9-percent clip from the floor, making 27-of-63 field goals on the night. Rebounding was another major factor in USF's win, the Bulls out-rebounded the Great Danes 52-to-29. This is the second consecutive game the Bulls out-rebounded their opponents after USF grabbed 48 boards in comparison to Ohio State's 32 earlier this week.
USF held Albany (0-1) to just 37 points, the first time the Great Danes have been held to less than 40 points since 2016. Three Bulls scored in double figures to help USF double up the score on the Danes: including Ferreira with 21, Kitija Laksa with 13 and Sydni Harvey with 10.
Cincinnati 77, ETSU 64
University of Cincinnati women's basketball picked up where it left off on Tuesday with a 77-64 victory on Friday against the ETSU Buccaneers at Fifth Third Arena.
With their second win this week to start the season, the Bearcats improved to 2-0. Meanwhile, playing in their first game of 2018-19, the Bucs fell to 0-1.
For the second-straight game, the UC offense was paced by three or more double-figure scorers with senior guard Nikira Goings leading the way with a game and season-best 24 points, including five made 3-pointers. Continuing her strong play, newcomer Florence Sifa netted 15 points to go along with six rebounds, while junior guard Antoinette Miller once again stuffed the stat sheet with 12 points, four rebounds, four assists, and four steals.
Trading baskets with ETSU much of the third quarter, the Bearcats ended the period with a 5-0 run to take a 59-53 surplus into the final stanza. After going up by eight, UC saw the Bucs burst ahead to trail by just one with 6:57 left. Powered by Goings, the Red & Black ended the game on a 16-4 surge to notch its second-consecutive victory to begin 2018-19.
American 68, Tulsa 52
Maddie Bittle scored 15 points in her first collegiate contest, but it wasn't enough as Tulsa dropped a 68-52 decision to American on Friday night at Bender Arena in Washington, D.C. TU fell to 1-1 on the season, while AU moved to 1-0 overall.
TU cut their deficit to single digits, trailing by nine, 37-28, with 3:22 left to play in the third quarter. A pair of free throws made by Richards made it a seven-point game (37-30), but the Eagles outscored the Hurricane, 9-3, to close out the frame with a 46-33 advantage. Both teams had 18 points in the third quarter.
In the final frame, American had just a 22-19 scoring advantage, but TU couldn't overcome their first-quarter slump.
TU shot 27-percent from the field, including 29-percent from three-point range, and 51-percent from the free throw line, compared to American's 50-percent from the field, 47-percent from behind the arc and 80-percent from the charity stripe.
Houston 95, Georgia Tech 89
The Houston Cougar Women's Basketball team outlasted Georgia Tech 95-89 in a double-overtime thriller in its home opener on Friday at H&PE Arena.
Houston saw a big night from two different scorers in Jasmyne Harris and Alyssa Okoene, who led all scorers with 26 points each. Harris finished the game with seven rebounds, eight assists and a career-high six steals, while Okoene tallied her first-career double-double with 11 boards. Dorian Branch and Angela Harris also finished in double figures with 12 and 10 points, respectively.
In the first overtime period, Houston grabbed an early lead at 74-72 before Georgia Tech rattled off seven of the next nine points to take a 79-76 advantage with 2:37 remaining. Again Houston responded and picked up a free throw from Julia Blackshell-Fair and a layup from Jasmyne Harris to tie the game at 79 apiece with 23 seconds to play. The layup for Harris gave her 1,000 points in her career, making her the 24th player in Houston history to accomplish that feat.
Houston caught a spark to begin the second overtime, when Dorian Branch knocked down 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions to open up an 87-81 advantage with 3:19 remaining in the period. Georgia Tech responded with a 3-pointer of their own from Balogun, however The Cougars scored five-straight points, including three from Okoene to extend the lead to 92-84 with 1:36 to play.
Georgia Tech made one final attempt to work its way back in the game after Fletcher connected on an old-fashioned 3-point play to cut the score to 92-87, which was followed by a layup from Kondalia Montgomery with 26 seconds left to cut the lead to three.
However, the Cougars knocked home three of their final four free throw attempts and held the Yellow Jackets without a point the rest of the way to win the contest, 95-89.
Wichita State 63, Missouri State 60
Carla Bremaud's game-tying three-pointer with 3.7 seconds remaining in regulation sent the game into overtime before Wichita State eventually came out on top, 63-60 vs. Missouri State Saturday afternoon in Charles Koch Arena.
The win also marked head coach Keitha Adams' 300th career win at the Division I level and moved the Shockers to 2-0 on the season for the first time since the 2005-06 season.
Bremaud led Wichita State with 15 points on just 2-of-7 shooting from beyond the arc, but none proved more clutch than her NBA range triple from the top of the key to force overtime. WSU improved to 18-20 all-time in overtime games. This was WSU's first overtime game since Feb. 14, 2016 vs. Loyola.
Raven Prince recorded her first career double-double leading the Shockers with 12 rebounds and a career high 12 points, while Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage added 13 points before fouling out in regulation. For the second straight game Seraphine Bastin dished out six assists.
A pair of free throws from Prince extended the Shockers' lead by five to 45-40 in the fourth, before a 7-0 Missouri State run including a three pointer and layup from Shameka Ealy gave the Bears a 49-46 lead. With time running down Bremaud drilled a three pointer from the top of the key to send the game into overtime tied at 53.
Missouri State took the early lead in overtime, before a pair of free throws and jumper from Bastin gave the Shockers a 57-55 lead. A jumper and a made free throw from Reid extended the Shocker lead giving the Shockers a 63-60 victory.
UConn 85, Ohio State 53
Katie Lou Samuelson scored 19 points and No. 2 UConn opened its quest for a 12th national title on Sunday with an 85-53 rout of Ohio State.
Crystal Dangerfield had 18 points, Napheesa Collier added 17 and Megan Walker chipped in with 15 as the Huskies won their season opener for the 23rd straight year.
Carly Santoro had 20 points for Ohio State (1-2), which had to replace all five starters and its top six scorers from last season's Big Ten championship team.
The Huskies have not lost a regular-season game since falling to Stanford during the second game of the 2014-15 season, before any current player was in the program. That's a streak of 116 consecutive games.
The Buckeyes' two losses have both come to Top 25 teams. They dropped their opener at home to No. 22 USF, 71-47.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
| MONDAY, NOV. 12 |
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Tulsa |
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Belmont |
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5:00 PM |
Nashville, Tenn. |
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Old Dominion |
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Cincinnati |
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7:00 PM |
Cincinnati, Ohio |
Live Stats Live Video |
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Memphis |
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Arkansas State |
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8:00 PM |
Jonesboro, Ark. |
Live Audio |
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Mississippi Valley State |
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SMU |
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8:00 PM |
Dallas, Texas |
Live Stats Live Audio |
| WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14 |
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Grand Canyon |
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ECU |
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7:00 PM |
Greenville, N.C. |
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UCF |
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Stetson |
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7:00 PM |
Deland, Fla. |
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Temple |
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Ole Miss |
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7:00 pm |
Oxford, Miss. |
Live Stats Live Video |
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Sam Houston State |
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Wichita State |
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7:30 PM |
Wichita, Kan. |
Live Stats Live Audio |
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Houston |
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Louisiana Tech |
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8:00 PM |
Ruston, La. |