BOSTON, Mass. – Redshirt senior Emily Esposito tallied a season-high 15 points, junior Liz Shean matched her with a career-best 15 points, and the Boston University women's basketball program won its second game in a row with a 60-47 triumph over New Hampshire on Monday evening at Case Gym.
 
BU (4-5) and UNH (3-6) went back-and-forth in the opening quarter, but the Terriers pulled away in the second, limiting the Wildcats to a .125 shooting percentage in the stanza and ending it on a 15-3 run. The home team led by as much as 17 late in the third, and kept UNH at bay in the fourth despite the visitors clawing within eight.
 
In total, BU shot 8-for-13 from three-point range, a season-best. The 47 points allowed also ties a season-low.
 
Esposito filled the stat sheet for BU, leading the team with a season-high five assists while posting season-bests of six rebounds, three steals, and a block. Shean made seven free throws while extending her three-point streak to six consecutive games. Junior Maren Durant snagged six boards and blocked four shots.
 
Amanda Torres led New Hampshire with 15 points and two assists. Ivy Gogolin totaled 10 points.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• BU missed their first three shots of the game, but freshman Alex Giannaros limited the drought to that mark as she took Esposito's pass from the left corner to drill a three-pointer two minutes into the game.
• Neither team led by more than three points in the opening frame. UNH went up 11-9 on Gogolin's second-chance putback, but junior Annabelle Larnard buried a right-corner three at the buzzer to put the Terriers ahead by one.
• Torres drained a jumper at the 5:30 mark of the second quarter for a 15-14 Wildcat advantage, but BU started its run from there.
• Shean made two threes from the right side in less than 90 seconds, sandwiching Esposito's fadeaway baseline jumper, to put the Terriers ahead 22-15 with 3:11 until halftime.
• Senior Chiara Tibbitt floated a jump shot in, Shean added two free throws, and Esposito knocked down another triple to cap the 15-0 run and made it a 14-point lead. Helena Dellaruelle's three before the horn secured the score, 29-18 Terriers, at halftime.
• BU started the third quarter on a 7-2 run, hitting eight of nine field goals to increase the lead to 36-22. Giannaros and sophomore Caitlin Weimar made shots inside the arc, while Esposito buried a three from beyond it.
• Midway through, Weimar denied two Wildcat shots in the low block on Talia Davis and Brooke Kane.
• Gaining possession on a jump ball with 2:03 remaining in the third, Durant found junior Maggie Pina on the right wing. Pina made the shot while drawing a foul, completing the rare four-point play. Pina nailed another triple 88 seconds later to extend BU's edge to 49-33 after three quarters.
• An 11-2 UNH run whittled down the lead to 52-44 once Sophia Widmeyer sank a right-wing three-pointer with 6:46 to go.
• From that point, all of the Terriers' points came at the charity stripe.

 
GAME NOTES

• BU shot 50 percent (19-for-38) in the game, its sixth contest shooting 42 percent or better.
• The Terriers also set season marks with 14 free throws, eight blocked shots, five allowed assists, and a.279 field goal percentage defense.
• BU won the rebounding battle for the seventh time in nine games, racking up 37 to UNH's 31.
• The Terriers also won the opening tip for the seventh instance this season.
• Shean contributed 15 of the Terriers' 20 bench points.
• Esposito reached double figures for the first time since Nov. 27. Monday marked the fifth time she has led the team in assists as a Terrier.
• Durant has recorded a block in six straight games, with her four on the night falling one shy of her career-high, set on Jan. 25, 2020.
• Shean registered more points on Monday than in either of her previous two seasons (11 in 2019-20 and 14 in 2020-21). She has four games this year with 10 or more points.
• Giannaros became the first freshman Terrier to start a game since Durant, Johnson, and Pina were in the lineup back on March 9, 2020.

 
UP NEXT

• BU heads to Rhode Island to take on the Rams on Sunday, Dec. 19. Opening tip is slated for 1 p.m.