South Florida 78, East Carolina 68
Redshirt junior forward Romi Levy's 22 points helped South Florida women's basketball (16-12, 8-7) to a 78-68 victory and a season sweep of East Carolina (14-11, 7-7) on Wednesday night at Minges Coliseum in Greenville, N.C.
Freshman guard Vittoria Blasigh finished the night with 20 points and four made 3-pointers. Senior forward Evelien Lutje Schipholt finished the night with an 11-point and 10-rebound double-double, her seventh of the season. Sophomore wing Carla Brito (16 points) rounded out the Bulls in double-digit points. Redshirt senior guard Aerial Wilson finished the night with a season-best seven points and matched a career-best 10 assists.
Charlotte 70, North Texas 69
The Charlotte women's basketball team (15-12, 7-7 The American) won a thrilling 70-69 game in overtime on Wednesday (Feb. 21), courtesy of a three-pointer in the closing seconds from Olivia Porter to propel Charlotte over the North Texas Mean Green (19-7, 9-5 The American) who entered the night in first place in the American Athletic Conference. The loss is just the second for the Mean Green inside The Super Pit.
Dazia Lawrence paced the Charlotte offense all night long, scoring a game-high 26 points on a career-high 28 field goal attempts, and a season-high four-made three-pointers. Olivia Porter scored a career-high 16 points, with seven of them coming in the overtime period and five within the last minute of the game. Jacee Busick was the third Niner to finish in double figures, scoring 10 points and grabbing eight rebounds in the winning effort.
Porter, Lawrence, and Fatou Diakite finished with three steals as the team totaled 14 on the night. It is the 11th game this season in which the Niners have recorded at least 10 steals, holding a record of 8-3 in such contests.
Tulsa 84, UAB 72
Temira Poindexter's game-high 30 points led Tulsa to an 84-72 win over UAB Wednesday night in front of 1,058 fans at the Donald W. Reynolds Center.
Tulsa improved to 19-8 overall and 9-5 in the American Athletic Conference while UAB fell to 18-9 and 9-6 in league action. Tulsa's 19 wins is the most since posting 26 victories in the 2005-06 campaign.
The win moved Tulsa into a second-place tie in The American with North Texas.
UAB took a 15-point lead at the 7:19 mark of the second quarter before the Hurricane closed out the period by outscoring the Blazers 36-21 for a 42-41 halftime lead. Tulsa went on to outscore UAB 63-36 after trailing by 15.
Tulsa opened the second half on a 9-0 run for a 51-41 lead in the first 2:29 of the quarter. UAB got as close as three points, 53-50 on a Maddie Walsh trey. Tulsa pushed its lead to 12 points in the first 2:40 of the fourth quarter when Poindexter's three-pointer made the score 70-58 at the 7:20 mark.
The Hurricane took its largest lead at 15 points when Poindexter knocked down two free throws with 3:56 remaining in the contest.
Tulsa connected on 49-percent of its field goals and shot a season-high 56-percent from behind the arc and was 72.7 from the line. The Hurricane defense held the Blazers to nearly 10-percent below its season three-point percentage, limiting UAB to 7-of-25 treys for 28 percent.