Thursday games:  George Mason beat Marshall (0-1) 84 - 77.  Patriots were L\led by 20 points from Ta'Viyann Habib, a transfer from Indian River State College.  In the other A10 win, Loyola of Chicago beat woeful Chicago State 84 - 77 for the Ramblers first win.  Chicago State was 6 - 22 last year with 4 of the wins over more woeful, and leaving D1, Hartford.

Defending tournament champion St Louis had an unimpressive performance inter opener, a home loss to Drake (2-0)) although Drake is usually a good team. Drake 78, St Louis 66.  Kyla McMakin had 20 points for the Billikens but only 6 - 18 from the field.  LaSalle also dropped their home opener 58 - 48 to Maine (1-1.). The only Explorer in double figures was Freshman Anya Mackton (5"10", Catonsville.). She had 13 points.  LaSalle did reduce their turnovers to 17, from 32 at Coppin State.  Maine has an A10-centric non conference schedule, hosting UMass and URI in their next 2 games, followed by Richmond to start a 3 game Des Moines tournament.  And finally Fordham on December 2. 

In a game between 2 first time head coaches, host Northeastern (2-0) held off UMass 78-74 .  UMass again only dressed 8 players, and 2 fouled out late.  Northeastern returned several players who have experience playing with each other.  Lacking much inside presence, UMass gave up several lay-ups.  MInutewoman hurt themselves by missing 10 free throws, including 8 in the fourth quarter when they were trying to come back by 13 points down.

Bre Bellamy (William and Mary) had 15 points and 8 rebounds.  And fouled out.  Kristen Williams scored 13.  Jermany Mapp (Hampton) had 11 points on 5 - 9 shooting after going 0 - 9 in their opener.  Stefanie Kulesza  had 8 points to go with 11 rebounds.  Tori Hyduke had 12 points on 2 - 9 from the field and 7 - 8 from the line.  She started and played 34 minutes after only about 23 in the opener.  She has 4 assists to only one turnover.  In the age of transfers, UMass started 3 former CAA players (Bellamy, Mapp, Hyduke) against a CAA team.  

All four A10 teams won Friday night and all are 2 - 0,  Two road wins.  Two home wins.

GW 55, Manhattan 49

VCU 70, William and Mary (0-2) 59.  Visitors led by Sarah Te-Bisau with 27 points.

URi 78, UMass Lowell (0-3) 38.  Halftime score was 48 - 12.  Host Rams led in scoring by Teisha Hyman (Syracuse) with 15 points.  Hyman is a 5'8" graduate student who was a preseason All A10 second team pick, the only transfer on the preseason all conference  teams.  Also in double figures were Dee Dee Davis (Manhattan ) with 14, and Sophie Phillips with 11.

Fordham 66, Albany (1-1) 63.  Transfer Emy Hayford (Pittsburgh) again was the leading scorer with 22 points while Taylor Donaldson (New Mexica State) had 14, but only 4 - 15 from the field.

A10 teams were 4 - 4 on Sunday, including 1 - 2 against Power conference teams.  There are no winless teams in the conference and 5 are undefeated.

Dayton (H, 1-1), 91, Lindenwood (0-2)  72
 
George Mason (3-0) 77, William and Mary (H,0-3) 72.  Patriots host former UMass coach Tory Verdi and Pittsburgh (1-1) on Wednesday.  

Richmond (H,1-1) 105, Delaware State (0-3) 44

St Louis (H, 1-1) 93. Missouri (2-1) 85. Crowd of 2,276.  St Louis won 4th quarter 36 - 21.  22 points each from Brooklyn Gray and Camree Clegg and 21 from Peyton Kennedy.  UMass transfer Amgelique Ngalakolundi had 2 points and 5 rebounds for the Tigers and fouled out after 11 minutes of playing time.

UNC (H2-0) 74, Davidson (2-1) 70.  Charlese Dunn had 21 points for the Wildcats off the bench, while Millie Prior scored 20 and Elle Sutphin had 17.

Cleveland State (1-1) 74, Loyola (H, 1-2) 65

Miami FL (H, 2-0) 78, Fordham (2-1) 39

Maine (H, 2-1) 69, UMass (1-2) 48.  Black Bears led 23 - 9 after 1st period.  UMass - poor shooting, outrebounded, 6 - 12 from the line.  After hosting a good Harvard team on Thursday, Minutewomen have 6 straight games away from home, including 3 in 3 days at the Cancun Classic.  Yikes.  Still only dressing 8 playerss.
 

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A10 teams went 4 - 1 on Wednesday with another Power conference win.

GW (H, 3-0) 67, American (1-2) 59.  GW is one of 4 undefeated A 10 teams.

Richmond (2-1) 80, Gardner-Webb (H,0-3) 53.  Maggie Doogan had a 25/10 afternoon.  Grace Townsend scored 18,  Laren VanArsdale (a third Hampton transfer in the A10) had 12.  GW and UMass also have players from Hampton.

George Mason (H,4-0) 60, Pittsburgh (1-2) 52.  Sonia Smith led the Patriots with 15 points.  Mason drew 1,181, which I believe is a pretty good crowd for them.  Tory Verdi left UMass for the ACC but didn't bring any players with him.  However freshman Aaryn Battle requested a release from her letter of commitment to UMass.  She didn't play much for Pitt the first 2 games but scored 10 points on 5 - 9 shooting tonight, off the bench. 

Drexel (H,2-1) 71, LaSalle (2-2) 46.  High scorer for the losing Explorers was freshman Nicole Melious with 10.

St Louis (H,2-1) 79, Missouri State (1-1) 67.  Billikens won the 4th quarter by 33 - 16.  Peyton Kennedy scored 24, while Julie Martinez had 21 points to go with 7 rebounds and 6 assists.  St Louis had been 3 - 14 against Missouri State.  

 

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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.  

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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

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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.

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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.

WMC wrote:

VCU (4-1) 56, St John's (2-3) 51.  Sarah Te-Bisau scored 19 for the Rams while Timaya Lewis-Eutsey had 16.
Another Power conference win for the A10. If you consider the Big East a Power conference as I do.  Ber'Nyah Mayo led St John's in scoring with 20 points.   The UMass transfer is averaging 11.6 mpg, third on the team.

West Virginia 54 (4-0), GW (3-2) 51

Green Bay (3-1) 85, UMass (1-5) 52.   The next 2 Cancun opponents for the Minutewomen are nationally ranked. Stefanie Kulesza had 11 points and 7 rebounds while Jermany Mapp scored 10.   Kristen Williams rebounded a bit from her 1 - 12 against Monmouth with 9 points on 3 - 7 shooting.  Tori Hyduke played 33 minutes, scoring 5 points (only 2 - 10 shooting.)  But she had 7 assists, 4 more than any other player on either team.  No turnovers.


 

Who needs to score 22 points in back-back games when you can dish out 7 assists with 0  turnovers? Yeah right! Who needs that?

A10 teams go 6 - 2 on Saturday.  

Charlotte (4-3) 50, GW (3-4) 38

Maryland (4-3) 92, UMass (1-7) 63.  Two players for UMass fouled out leaving them with only five left to play.

Dayton (4-3) 74, Wichita State (3-3) 63.  Ivy Wolf scored 18.  Ariana Smith had 19 rebounds and 13 points.  

Fordham (4-2) 70, UMass Lowell (0-6) 49

St Bonaventure (2-4) 55, Loyola, MD (3-2) 51

VCU (6-1) 69, Puerto Rico - Mayagüez (0-5, DII Independent) 30

URI (5-2) 64, Portland (3-4, WCC) 58

Richmond (5-1) 74, Drake (H, 4-2) 66.  Bulldogs are hosting the tournament.

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