January 20 at NIU Convocation Center in DeKalb, IL
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Northern Illinois is a top-20 team nationally in scoring (average of 80.8 points coming in), and while they fell short of that mark, the Huskies got a pair of great performances in a 70-59 win.
Gabby Nikitinaite was really impressive and finished with 23 points on 9-of-17 shooting and was the only decent three-point shooter for the visitors, hitting 3-of-7 (rest of team was 1-for-10). Mikayla Voigt complimented that with a 10-for-11 day at the line and finished with 20 points.
Akron's a good defensive team-scoring defense is third in the MAC & top-95 nationally-so 70 points to NIU is about what I thought they'd give up. The Zips just didn't make enough shots-33% from the field in the second half and only 21 made field goals for the game-and turned the ball over 18 times.
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