Terriers Storm Past Brown, 72-51, in Home Opener

Monday, November 12

Boston, MA

7 PM

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Terriers Storm Past Brown, 72-51, in Home Opener

November 12, 2018 | Women's Basketball

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BOSTON – Taking Case Gym for its home opener against Brown, the Boston University women's basketball team used a collective team effort to overmatch the Bears, 72-51, Monday night.

With the win, head coach Marisa Moseley earned her first career victory as a collegiate head coach.

How It Happened

Nia Irving opened the game with back-to-back layups before Katie Nelson shifted the momentum with a mid-court steal and took it the distance to give BU an 6-3 edge five minutes into the game.
Nelson stayed hot, either scoring or assisting on 11 of BU's first 14 points, as the Terriers grabbed a 17-11 advantage at the end of the quarter.
Payton Hauck opened the second frame with five straight points from the charity stripe.
Hauck and Lauren Spearman drilled back-to-back shots from beyond-the-arc, giving the Terriers their largest lead at 32-13 with 3:21 left before the break.
Brown crawled back to reduce the lead to 12, though BU still held firm with a 33-21 command at the half.
The Bears chipped away to make it an eight-point game, 38-30, midway through the third.
BU used its stifling defense to fuel its offense, reeling off a 14-3 run to close out the frame, holding the Bears to go without a field goal for the final 7:21 of the third.
The freshmen aided the Terriers to pull away in the fourth as Ashley Sieper poured in eight points, while Chiara Tibbitt added in four to seal the win.

Game Notes

Irving led all players with 12 rebounds to go with 16 points for her ninth career double-double.
Hauck matched Irving for the team lead with 16 points.
Nelson also reached double figures with 10 points and distributed seven assists, one more than Brown collectively had as a team.
The Terriers assisted on 70 percent of their field goals for the night.
BU has won back-to-back home openers for the first time since 2011-13.
Monday marked BU's largest and first 20-point margin of victory since defeating Bucknell, 86-58, on Jan. 25, 2014.

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