BOSTON - Four Terriers scored in double figures, led by junior Caitlin Weimar's third double-double of the season, as the Boston University women's basketball team pulled away from Hartford in a 73-45 victory on Saturday afternoon at Case Gym.

BU (2-2) secured its first win at home on the 2022-23 campaign, outscoring Hartford (0-3) 34-16 in the second half. The Terriers led for 38:59 of the 40 minutes, winning all four quarters.

Weimar notched 15 points, 10 rebounds, and four blocks. Sophomore Lauren Davenport set career-highs with 12 points, five assists, and seven boards. Seniors Maggie Pina and Sydney Johnson added 11 and 10 points, respectively.

Tatum Forbes paced the Hawks with 11 points, five rebounds, and three assists. As a team, Hartford shot 30 percent from the field.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• BU jumped out to a 13-4 lead, with six points from Davenport layups, as the Hawks opened the game shooting just 2-of-11 from the field.
• Hartford cut it to five before Johnson intercepted Forbes' pass, leading to a layup for freshman Sam Crispe that replenished the lead to seven, 15-8, with 1:17 left in the opening quarter.
• With the score 18-13 in BU's favor early in the second, junior Sophie Beneventine nailed a jumper just inside the arc to ignite a 9-2 Terrier spurt over the course of 2:15.
• The Hawks trimmed their deficit to 32-27 on Irene Primo's three-pointer with 2:09 until halftime, but the Terriers scored seven of the final nine points in the stanza, capped off by Beneventine's corner triple with under six seconds on the clock.
• Elena Houghton made the first basket for Hartford to open the third, but BU would respond with an extended 14-0 run, featuring a pair of Pina three-pointers. The latter stretched the Terrier advantage to 53-31 at the 4:35 mark.
• Johnson and Crispe set up a pick-and-roll to lead to a left-block layup for the rookie, then Pina sank a jumper off a Johnson outlet pass on the next possession for a 57-36 edge. Neither team scored in the final 2:02 of the third to keep it a 21-point lead heading to the fourth quarter.
• Weimar made the first two BU buckets in the fourth on layups from Beneventine's assists, then junior Kelsi Mingo continued the strong play from the Class of 2024 with a nostalgic three-point play on a layup with 6:26 remaining, making it 64-40.
• Freshman Anastasiia Semenova buried a straightaway three at the midpoint for a 67-43 Terrier lead.
• BU's largest lead of the day, as well as the season, was 30, after Davenport found Crispe underneath the hoop to make it 73-43 with 1:34 remaining.

 
STATS

• The Terriers shot over 48 percent from the field while establishing a season-high in points.
• BU tallied 25 assists on 30 made field goals (83.3 percent), the most assists for BU since Jan. 25, 2014 against Bucknell.
• Pina tallied three of BU's six three-pointers on the day, shooting 60 percent from deep.
• The Terriers won the rebounding battle, 48-28. Saturday was BU's first time with a +20 rebounding margin in a game since Feb. 14, 2021, a +22 effort against Army West Point.
• BU outscored Hartford in the paint, 38-16.
• The Hawks' longest scoring run was just five points, coming late in the third quarter.
• Senior Maren Durant also posted 10 rebounds, her first time in double-digits on the glass this season. She led the Terriers with six offensive caroms and two steals.

 
GAME NOTES

• BU's 28-point margin of victory was its most since a 29-point win on Nov. 9, 2021 against UMass Lowell.
• Weimar, who has three double-doubles in four games this season, is averaging team-highs of 10.3 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game, while shooting 55.8 percent from the field.
• With her three triples, Pina now has 143 in her career, trailing Alison Argentieri '03 by one for 10th place all-time in program history.
• Dating back to last season, Johnson has scored 10 or more points in 19 of her last 20 games. Her seven assists were two shy of her career-high.
• Davenport tallied the first double-digit scoring effort of her career. In her last two games, she has shot 7-for-15 (46.6 percent) with 14 rebounds and seven assists.
• In its last three games, BU has shot over 79 percent (23-for-29) from the free throw line.
• The Terriers have won 19 of their last 20 games, dating back to the 2019-20 season, when scoring 70 or more points.
• BU improved to 34-29 all-time over Hartford.

 
UP NEXT

• BU aims for its third-consecutive win when it welcomes St. Francis Brooklyn to Case Gym on Wednesday (Nov. 23) for Fansgiving. Opening tip is slated for 1 p.m.