January 23 at Rose Hill Gym in Bronx, NY
ESPN +
The trio of Isiah Deas, new Scoochie Smith All Star Pookie Powell & Saul Phiri were a combined 11-of-18 from three-point range (LaSalle made 14 threes as a team) and the Explorers led the entire way and as much as 16 in winning 73-71.
LaSalle picked up its first Atlantic 10 win since its league opener January 5 at Massachusetts, while Fordham remained winless at 0-6.
It was also a great night of nonsense from the broadcast team of Mike Watts & Andrew Bogusch:
Bogusch:
[after LaSalle started the game on a 9-0 run] "take a nine-point punch in the face"
"you can't be Villanova at LaSalle, but you can be Villanova light at LaSalle"
"acknowledge that the mini-battle was lost...win the war"
"play 40 big minutes"
Watts:
"[after a 3-pointer got Fordham to within nine points with 12:19 left] "trying to make sure it's not too little too late"
"this is one of those every possession matters moments"
"LaSalle at times last year was pesky good"
"Ed Croswell, the lunch pail guy on this LaSalle team"
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Game 505 - Fordham women at Saint Louis
January 31 at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, MO
NBC Sports Network
I thought with Fordham's leader G'mrice Davis out for Wednesday afternoon's game it'd be a back court battle between the Rams' Bre Cavanaugh and Jackie Kemph of Saint Louis. And while both players were very good - Cavanaugh scored 37 points and Kemph had 21 points with nine assists - I was most impressed with Billikens' senior froward Maddison Gits.
Gits scored a career-high 34 points on 11-of-15 shooting and grabbed 15 rebounds in a 91-85, double-overtime for the hosts.
Davis came into the day second nationally in rebounding and averaging a team-best 16.7 points. With her out of the lineup, Cavanaugh, the team's second-leading scorer but just a freshman, took on the majority of the scoring responsibility and it took her 30 shots to get to that career-high scoring mark. It didn't help that Mary Goulding had nine first-quarter points, but just nine the rest of the day and Lauren Holden scored just nine of her 17 after the break.
Kemph, a senior and the school's all-time leader in points and assists, had 17 of her points after halftime. Saint Louis erased a 16-point second-half deficit and actually led 65-59 with about 4 1/2 minutes to play in the fourth. That's when Cavanaugh and Gits began trading points over the final stretch of the fourth. After Kemph fed Gits for a bucket that put the Billikens up 69-68 with just under a minute left, a 1-of-2 trip to the free-throw line for Kemph and Cavanaugh's 2-of-2 trip to tie things up at 70-70 with 10 seconds left were the last points of regulation.
The first overtime was fairly uneventful - just five points for each team and Jordyn Frantz of Saint Louis missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer. Cavanaugh began the second extra session by scoring the first eight Fordham points, including a jumper with two minutes to play that tied it at 83-83. The Billikens took the lead for good on a pair of free throws by Kemph on the ensuing possession.
Saint Louis (12-10), which moved to 6-3 in Atlantic 10 play and dropped Fordham (17-6) to 8-2, really turned things around with a great third quarter. The Billikens trailed 41-27 at halftime and by 16 at one point in the third, but ending up shooting 10-of-14 from the field in that period and led by two heading to the fourth.
NBC Sports Network
I thought with Fordham's leader G'mrice Davis out for Wednesday afternoon's game it'd be a back court battle between the Rams' Bre Cavanaugh and Jackie Kemph of Saint Louis. And while both players were very good - Cavanaugh scored 37 points and Kemph had 21 points with nine assists - I was most impressed with Billikens' senior froward Maddison Gits.
Gits scored a career-high 34 points on 11-of-15 shooting and grabbed 15 rebounds in a 91-85, double-overtime for the hosts.
Davis came into the day second nationally in rebounding and averaging a team-best 16.7 points. With her out of the lineup, Cavanaugh, the team's second-leading scorer but just a freshman, took on the majority of the scoring responsibility and it took her 30 shots to get to that career-high scoring mark. It didn't help that Mary Goulding had nine first-quarter points, but just nine the rest of the day and Lauren Holden scored just nine of her 17 after the break.
Kemph, a senior and the school's all-time leader in points and assists, had 17 of her points after halftime. Saint Louis erased a 16-point second-half deficit and actually led 65-59 with about 4 1/2 minutes to play in the fourth. That's when Cavanaugh and Gits began trading points over the final stretch of the fourth. After Kemph fed Gits for a bucket that put the Billikens up 69-68 with just under a minute left, a 1-of-2 trip to the free-throw line for Kemph and Cavanaugh's 2-of-2 trip to tie things up at 70-70 with 10 seconds left were the last points of regulation.
The first overtime was fairly uneventful - just five points for each team and Jordyn Frantz of Saint Louis missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer. Cavanaugh began the second extra session by scoring the first eight Fordham points, including a jumper with two minutes to play that tied it at 83-83. The Billikens took the lead for good on a pair of free throws by Kemph on the ensuing possession.
Saint Louis (12-10), which moved to 6-3 in Atlantic 10 play and dropped Fordham (17-6) to 8-2, really turned things around with a great third quarter. The Billikens trailed 41-27 at halftime and by 16 at one point in the third, but ending up shooting 10-of-14 from the field in that period and led by two heading to the fourth.
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