Boston College Outlasts BU In High-Scoring Affair, 90-80

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Boston College Outlasts BU In High-Scoring Affair, 90-80

December 4, 2022 | Women's Basketball

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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Seniors Maggie Pina and Liz Shean combined to shoot 9-for-11 from beyond the arc, and freshman Sam Crispe scored a career-high 16 points, but the Boston University women's basketball team dropped a 90-80 contest to Boston College on Sunday afternoon at Conte Forum.

BU (4-4) shot 50 percent from the game, including 11-for-17 (64.7 percent) from three, to register a season-high in scoring. Trailing by as many as six points in the fourth quarter, BU tied the game at 80-80 with 2:01 to play. However, Boston College (7-3) hit over 52 percent of its shots and scored the game's final 10 points to seal the result.

Pina finished with 18 points on 5-of-8 shooting, while Shean accounted for all 17 of the Terriers' bench points. Senior Sydney Johnson and sophomore Lauren Davenport added 13 and 10 points, respectively, to make it five Terriers in double figures.

Dontavia Waggoner finished with a game-high 27 points, collecting 10 rebounds for the double-double. JoJo Lacey recorded 22 points with five steals.

HOW IT HAPPENED

BU raced out to a 10-4 lead in the first four-and-a-half minutes after Pina and Davenport each canned a three.
However, the Eagles would close the opening quarter on a 15-2 run, burying three triples. Lacey provided two of those threes.
The Terriers responded with the second quarter's first 12 points. After a Crispe layup and Shean corner three, senior Maren Durant drained two layups while Johnson nailed a jumper in the paint. Durant's second bucket gave the visitors a 24-19 edge at the 6:36 mark.
Boston College would then rip off a 10-2 run in less than 90 seconds, creating a 29-26 lead near the stanza's midpoint.
Pina and Taina Mair traded three-pointers, then the Terrier drilled two more triples on consecutive possessions to make it 35-32 in BU's favor.
The Eagles, who led 36-35 after the first half, rattled off a 9-2 run through halftime to go up 41-37.
Trailing 46-40 with 5:57 left in the third, Shean knocked down a fastbreak three by the right wing, then Johnson and Crispe teamed up for three layups, the former converting off her own steal as the clock read 4:17 to close an 11-3 BU run that put the Terriers on top, 51-49.
Waggoner's second-chance layup with 2:16 to go in the frame replenished the Eagles' lead to 55-51, but Shean nailed back-to-back threes around Lacey's jumper to knot the game at 57-57. The Terriers would go ahead 59-58 heading into the fourth.
Boston College took a 64-61 advantage 1:38 into the final period with three of the quarter's first four buckets, two coming inside from Maria Gakdeng.
With the Eagles ahead 69-63 with six minutes to play, the Terriers had free throws from Davenport and Crispe as well as Shean's fifth three-pointer, all as one minute occurred, to re-tie the game at 71-71.
BU went nearly 2:30 without a field goal, but had three perfect trips to the charity stripe to stay with Boston College before Johnson's jumper with 2:33 to go tied the game at 78-78.
Crispe and Waggoner each traded layups as the clock ran down to two minutes, making it 80-80.
The Eagles scored three-straight layups in 59 seconds to maintain an 86-80 edge with 40.8 seconds to go, and sealed the game on free throws the rest of the way.

STATS

Both teams combined for 97 points in the second half.
BU won the rebounding battle for the sixth time this season, 33-31.
The Terriers also shot a perfect 10-for-10 in the fourth quarter, and 17-18 (94.4 percent) overall.
Durant led BU with 10 rebounds, five assists, and two blocks.
Boston College sported a 29-11 edge in points from turnovers and 52-28 in points from the paint.

GAME NOTES

Pina has led the team in scoring three times this year, most among the Terriers. In her last five games, she is averaging 14.6 points per game while shooting 15-for-23 (65.2 percent) from deep.
Shean's 17 points were a season-high, while her five three-pointers ties her career-best, which last came against Army in the Patriot League Quarterfinals on Mar. 7.
Crispe's 16 points in 35 minutes of action both set career-bests. She went a perfect 8-for-8 from the foul line, and leads the team with a .950 free throw percentage (min. five attempts) this season.
Johnson has scored in double figures in 25 of her last 27 games, including six of her seven games this season.
Davenport notched her second-career game with 10 or more points.
Five Terriers scored in double-digits for the first time since Nov. 8, 2019 against Marist.
In its last four games, BU is 30-for-58 (51.7 percent) from three-point range.
Boston College improves to 16-12 all-time against BU.

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