BU Sweeps Homestand With 60-53 Triumph Over Yale

Tuesday, November 14

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BU Sweeps Homestand With 60-53 Triumph Over Yale

November 14, 2023 | Women's Basketball

Box Score Box Score Highlights Postgame Audio - Melissa Graves, Caitlin Weimar, and Alex Giannaros

BOSTON – Senior Caitlin Weimar dropped a 22-point, 12-rebound double-double, junior Alex Giannaros added 12 points, and the Boston University women's basketball team won its third-straight game with a 60-53 victory over Yale on Tuesday evening at Case Gym.

BU (3-0) coaxed 20 Yale (0-3) turnovers, as the visitors shot just 2-for-19 from beyond the arc. The largest lead between both teams was just 10, and the longest scoring run just eight points.

Weimar made seven of her 15 field goals in her second double-double effort on the season. Giannaros matched freshman Aoibhe Gormley with a team-high three assists and three steals.

Kiley Capstraw paced the Bulldogs with 14 points on 5-of-11 shooting. Jenna Clark scored 12 points on 15 shots.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Weimar scored six of the Terriers' first 10 points, including layups fed by Gormley on consecutive possessions midway through the first quarter.
Sophomore Anastasiia Semenova cashed in a midrange jumper along the baseline, but Clark's three with 1:05 on the clock knotted the game at 12-12, which held to the end of the first.
A short 6-0 Terrier run in the second quarter handed the home team a 21-17 edge, as Giannaros and sophomore Anete Adler sank baskets inside the paint.
Capstraw's fastbreak layup with 4:45 until halftime tied the contest at 21-21, but BU rattled off an 8-0 spurt, with six points coming from Weimar.
Freshman Audrey Ericksen nailed a jumper while drawing contact to secure the nostalgic three-point play, then Giannaros' fadeaway jumper put the Terriers on top 35-25 less than 90 seconds into the third quarter.
Yale countered with six-consecutive points to cut the gap to four, but Semenova followed a miss for a putback layup for a 37-31 Terrier advantage at the third frame's midpoint.
With the Terriers ahead 43-36 heading to the fourth, Capstraw converted on the Bulldogs' first offensive possession, but Adler found Weimar in stride on the left block to give the senior her 300th-career field goal in a BU uniform.
With the shot clock winding down approaching five minutes left in regulation, Gormley's teardrop floater beat the horn to give the Terriers a 50-44 lead.
Weimar also nailed a jumper as the shot clock expired with 1:09 remaining to make it 57-48, with BU icing the game on free throws the rest of the way.

STATS

The Terriers shot 42.2 percent in the game, while the Bulldogs were limited to 33.9 percent from the field.
Yale won the rebounding battle, 42-28, with 22 of its caroms coming from the offensive glass.
BU turned 20 Yale turnovers into 22 points. Both mark season-bests for the Terriers.
Four Terriers collected multiple steals: Giannaros, Gormley, Adler, and senior Sophie Beneventine.
Each team generated 30 points in the paint.
Twenty-one of BU's points originated from the foul line.

NOTES

BU is 3-0 to begin the season for the first time since 2020-21. The last time the Terriers won their first three games of the year against non-conference opponents was 2006-07.
Weimar now has 26 double-doubles as a Terrier, and 29 in her career. In her collegiate tenure, she now sports 933 career points on 371 field goals.
Dating back to last year, Giannaros has reached double figures in six of her last eight games.
Together, Weimar and Giannaros account for 35 of the Terriers' 58.7 points per game so far this year.
Dating back to 2019-20, and including postseason games, BU is 48-15 at The Roof.
The Terriers snapped a four-game losing streak to Yale, winning its first game against the Bulldogs since 2011 to improve to 12-6 in the all-time series.

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