Tough Thursday for A10 teams, 0-3.  No more undefeated teams.

Utah 74 (8-1), St Joseph's (H, 8-1) 48.  Nationally ranked Utes poured it on from the tip off.  Talya Brugler scored 16 for the Hawks.  Alissa Pitts had 31 for Utah.  Can St Joes bounce back against Villanova?

Lehigh (H, 8-1) 106, LaSalle (3-6) 60.  Nicole Melious led the Explorers with 16 points.  Will Coach Mountain be on the hot seat at the end of the season?

Siena (H, 3-3) 65, Fordham (5-5) 62.  Emy Hayford scored 22 points for the Rams and Taylor Donaldson had 18.  In what seem to me to be weird teams stats, Fordham had 21 turnovers and 19 steals, while winner Siena had 28 turnovers and 8 steals.  

On Tuesday, A10 teams split their non-conference games while Davidson and Duquense won the first conference battles.  St Joe's host nationally ranked Utah tomorrow night and then Villanova on Saturday.

Duquense (H, 4-3) 75, Fordham (5-4) 73 OT.    Fordham made up a 16 point deficit in the 4th quarter but lost the OT by 10-8.   Naelle Bernard led Duquense with 17 points .  Precious Johnson, off the bench, had 13 points as did Tess Myers, who scored 5 in overtime.  Kianah Brown (Indiana) had 9 points and 10 boards while Megan McConnell was 12/9 with 4 steals.  Taylor Donaldson scored 26 for Fordham.

Davidson (H,8-1) 81, Dayton (4-5) 53.  Suzi-Rose Deegan scored 22 for the Wildcats and Issy Morgan had 15.  Elle Sutphin did not play,again.  I haven't been able to find out her status.  Destiny Bohannon had 11 points for th Flyers and Arriana Smith scored 16 points to go with 13 rebounds.
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St Joseph's (8-0) 62, Boston University (H, 5-3) 47.  Mackenzie Smith had 22 points while Talya Brugler scored 13.  Laura Ziegler pulled down 11 rebounds.

VCU (H, 8-1) 59, LeMoyne (1-7) 32.  Mary-Anna Asare scored 13 points, the only Ram in double figures.  

Rutgers (H, 6-5) 98, LaSalle (3-5) 67

Cornell (H, 5-4)  55 , St Bonaventure (2-7) 53.     Bonnies led by 5 at the half.  Nadecfhka Laccen scored 16.  (A10 website has the Bonnies at 1 - 7 with a 6 game losing streak.  They've won 2 games.  The A10 has been wrong before.  So have I, but I just double checked the St Bonaventure website.)

 

Tough Friday night as all 3 A10 teams lost.

Purdue (4-4) 67, Dayton (H, 4-4) 59.  Ivy Wolf and Anyssia Jones were the leading scorers for the Flyers with 10 each.

Wichita Stte (H,4-4) 78, St Louis (4-4) 59.  High scorers for the Billikens were Brooklyn Grey, Mariavia Shavers and Camree Clegg with 11 apiece.

Yale (H, 2-6) 70, UMass (1-8) 62.  Yale beat Marist earlier in the week for its first win.  UMass' biggest issues remain lack of rebounding (margin was 36 - 21 Yale) and 3 point shooting, only 2 - 8 for Minutewomen while Bulldogs made 7 of 19.  UMass had 20 personal fouls to 10 for Yale, which had zero until late in the second quarter.  Tori Hyduke was the leading rebounder for UMass with 5,

UMass did get Jermany Mapp back after 2 games out with an injury.  Chinenyu Odenigbu (6' 5" Walpole Ma) was 3-3 in her college debut.  The other "big" freshman Lilly Taulelei scored 13 with 6 of 8 FG.  But the two freshmen only combined for 4 rebounds.  Having 2 mobile bigs gave Hyduke a more opportunity tp penetrate and dish off for easy lay-ups.  She had 4 assists, 8 points (all during a second half rally) and 2 turnovers. Hyduke continues to play a lot of minutes, 35 last night.

UMass dressed 9 for the first time this year, although the 3rd freshman didn't play a lot after maybe suffering an early injury.  Yale is not deep but they have an experienced starting corps.

On Wednesday, A10 teams won 2 of 3, including a landmark win for Loyola Chicago .

Loyola (3-4) 73, Northwestern (H,3-4) 68.  First win for the Ramblers after 25 losses to the Wildcats.  Head coach Allison Guth was an assistant under Joe McKeown for 2 seasons, 2013- 2015.  Sam Galanopoulos scored 20 for Loyola while Alysia Fisher had 19.

Penn (5-2) 79, LaSalle (3-3) 71.  Makayla Miller had 23 points for the Explorers.

Davison (H, 6-1) 64, App State (4-2) 41.  Elle Sutphin did not play for the Wildcats so Charlise Dunn stepped up to start and had 16 points.  Suzi-Rose Deegan led the scoring with 21 points.  Millie Prior had 14/13.  Issy Morgan had 7 points, 8 boards and 7 assists.  Davidson won the rebound battle 47-27.  Wildcats received 2 votes in the AP poll this week.  Still no recognition from the other poll.

There were  3 national games that featured teams with transfers from A10 schools.  Notre Dame beat host Tennessee 74 - 69.  Anna DeWolfe (Fordham) had 11 points, 1 assist and 3 steals fro the Irish.  She is a starter and is 5th in scoring with 9.1 pig.

Louisville beat Ole Miss 64 - 58 in another battle of ranked teams.  Sydney Taylor (UMass) scored 8 points with 6 rebounds and 5 assists for the Cardinals.  She is tied for second in scoring with 11.5 ppg.  Ole Miss was 13 - 28 overall in FT but 2 - 12 in the fourth quarter.  

#25 Princeton (5-2) beat Seton Hall (4-3) 75 - 71 in 2 overtimes.  It's rare for a non Power conference team to have 2 losses so early and be ranked.  Princeton has a years long track record of winning and this season have beaten #20 Oklahoma with losses to #3 UCLA and #19 Indiana.  Tigers have beaten Duquense and a good Middle Tennessee team.  URI is next.  For Seton Hall, Makenna White (UMass) had 4 points and 3 rebounds in 15 minutes against Princeton, while I'yanna Lops (St Bonaventure) was scoreless in 7 minutes.  They are 8th and 9th in minutes for the season for Seton Hall.

 

A10 teams won 3 of 4 Sunday games

George Mason (7-0) 70, Coppin State (H, 3-4) 38. Sonia Smith led balanced scoring by the Patriots with 10 points.  

Richmond (6-1) 83, Louisiana Tech (2-4) 56.  Spiders won 6th in a row while completing 3 game sweep in Des Moines.  Maggie Doogam scored 21 points while Addie Budnick had 12  and Rachel Ullstrom had 15 off the bench.  

St Louis (H, 4-3) 79, UIC (4-2) 75.  Billkens had to rally in 4th quarter despite shooting over 60% from the field (30-49, 1 - 9 from beyond the arc) and 18-20 FT.  Peyton Kennedy scored 29 on 12-12 FG and 5-5 FT.  Brooklyn Gray (SOPH transfer from Wabash Valley College) added 16 points.

DePaul (H, 4-3) 93, Loyola (2-4) 72.  Ramblers led by 1 at the half.  Sam Galanopoulos scored 20 and Ali Berg had 15.

A10 teams were 4 - 2 in Friday holiday tournament games.  No big time results but at least an A10 team beat Maine.

Southern Illinois (3-3) 66, GW (3-3) 55

#23 Washington State (7-0) 90, UMass (1-6) 48.  Stefanie Kulesza scored career hight 20 points to go with 11 rebounds for her 3rd double double.  Jermany Mapp did not play for UMass.  Don't know why yet. She played yesterday,   So Minutewomen dressed 7 and their bench was the 2 freshmen.  

Dayton (3-3) 75, Stetson (1-5) 54.  Ivy Wolf (JR transfer from Miami OH) had 25 points while Destiny Bohanon added 17.

URI (4-2) 63, Youngstown State (2-3) 50.  Sophie Phillips lead the Rams with 23 points and Maye Toure added 16.

Richmond (4-1) 77, Maine (3-2) 43.  Maggie Doogan was 27/7.  Addie Budnick scored 13 points.  Grace Townsend had 12 rebounds to go with her 8 points.  

VCU (5-1) 76, Sacred Heart (4-2) 62.  Sarah Te-Bisau scored 18.  Timaya.Lewis-Eustey had 15.  Mylei Parham had 14 rebounds and 9 points.

Both unbeatens won on Wednesday night.

George Mason (6-0) 72, American (H, 1-4) 62.  Sonia Smith was the leading scorer for the Patriots with 18.  Mason was down by 9 at the half.

St Joseph's (5-0), 67, Temple (H, 2-4) 65 OT. Hawks did not score a field goal in final 9 minutes: 4 - 6   FT in the fourth quarter although missing their last one, and 8 - 10 in the overtime.  Laura Ziegler scored 21 and had 13 rebounds.  Talya Brugler had 10 points.  FR Gabby Casey scored 15 points off the bench.  

Buffalo (H, 4-1) 78, St Bonaventure (1-4) 69.  Danni Haskell (Canisuis) was leading scorer for Bonnies with 22.  They scored 31 points in first quarter and 38 for the rest of the game.  

Brown (3-3) 56, Loyola (H, 2-3) 49.  Ramblers led by 12 at the half, but scored 3 pts (1-9 FG) in third quarter.  Sam Galanopoilos had 13 points while Sitiori Tanin was 11/11.

Dayton (H, 2-3) 75, Southern Illinois Edwardsville (1-5) 74.  Flyers won on a basket by Destiny Bohannon (10 points) with 4 seconds left, following an SIUE three pointer a few second earlier.  Mariah Perez led 5 Flyers in double figures with 17 points/13 rebounds..  Ariana Smith was 11/11.  Dayton won rebound battle 51 - 34.

Fordham (H, 3-2) 85, Georgian Court (0-4) 44.  Mandy McGuirk (GR, Penn) was the Rms' leading scorer with 15, while 5 others were in double figures.  Gerorgian Court is a DII program.  Eight of their 9 players were true freshman.  They play at UDC Tuesday.

Sam Glanopouluis, Loyola, was A10 Player of the Week.  Gaby Casey, St Joseph's, was Rookie of the Week.

A10 teams went 5 - 3 on Saturday with another win over an ACC foe

Duquense (H, 3-1) 56, Pittsburgh (1-3) 55.  Dukes were down 4 after 3 quarters and then up by as many as 8.  They needed 3 - 4 free throws in last 10 seconds to survive a last second 3 pointer by Pitt. Home opener drew 2,555 for City Game.  Duquense is 18 - 23 against Pitt.  Megan McConnell had 20 points, including 5 - 8 from the field (4 - 6 from beyond the arc) as well as 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 steals.  Naelle Bernard was next with 11 points.  Oddly starters and regular double figure scorers Amaya Hamilton and Ayanna Townsend had zero field goals with 5 combined free throws.  Pitt and Tory Verdi was 0 -2 against his old A10 friends.

Davidson (4-1) 62, Morgan State (H, 2-2) 48.  Issy Morgan led with 17 points while Mollie Prior was 14/8.  Elle Sutphin and Charlese Dunn were next with 8 apiece.  Laila Fair transferred to Morgan State after making All Rookie team at St Joe's and then having injury issues and lack of playing time at UMass.  She is apparently deep on the bench at Morgan State, or injured, or both.  She has played less than a minute, although she had a block,.

George Mason (H, 5-0) 83, Robert Morris (1-3) 63. Sonia Smith, 12 points, and Kennedy Harris, 13 points (off the bench,for reigning Rookie of the Week) led a balanced scoring attack.

Richmond (H, 3-1) 76, American (1-3) 48,  Siobhan Ryan had 20 points for the Spiders while Addie Budnick had 11 rebounds to go with her 8 points..

St Louis (3-1) 109, Chaminade (H, 2-1) 63  Balanced scoring from Billikens led by Kyla McMakin with 19.  Five total in double figures.   St Louis plays Wake Forest and BYU in next 2 Hawaii games.

Detroit Merct (3-2) 76, Dayton (H, 1-3) 62.
Binghamton (H, 2-3) 73, St Bonaventure (1-3) 65.
UMES (H, 2-3) 62, GW (3-1) 59

A10 teams were 2 - 4 Thursday night, not surprising since 5 of the bottom 6 teams played.  The 6th being LaSalle.  And as Minsk noted above, Davidson beat Duke at Cameron.  Blue Devils were ranked 22 in one poll and receiving votes in the other.  

Davidson (3-1) 69, Duke (3-1) 62.  Elle Sutphin scored 19 while Suzi-Rose Deegan had 18,  And Charlese Dunn, off the bench, had 15.  Wildcats have 2 wins over ACC opponents and its only loss is to ranked UNC.  Can they get some love from the pollsters?  They probably weren't on anybody's radar.  First win ever over a ranked opponent.

Loyola (2-2)  67 , Bradley (H,1-2). 62 , OT.  Sam Galanopoulous had 27 points including 8 -8 free throws in the OT.  Sitori Tanin had 21 and the only Loyola field goal in overtime,  The other 3 Rambler starters were 0 - 14 from the field but 8 - 10 from the line.

Manhatten (2-0) 58, Fordham (H, 2-2) 44.

Ohio (H, 1-1) 67, Dayton (-1-2) 61

Albany, NY (3-1) 67, St Bonaventure (1-2) 56

Harvard (3-1) 78, UMass (H, 1 - 3) 56. Minutewomen struggled early to score, down 12 - 2, and 28 - 8 after 1st period.  UMass pulled to within 8 in the 3rd period and was down 10 at the start of the 4th.  Kristen Williams scored 16, and Stefanie Kulesza had another double double, 13/10.  Lola Mullaney had 23 for Harvard, including several late 3 pointers.  Harmoni Turner scored 22.  Tori Hyduke was 0 - 9 from the field, and is 3 - 25 on the season.  She was 4 - 4 from the line and is 11 - 12 for the year.