Terriers Cap Non-Conference Play With 77-56 Win at Yale

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Terriers Cap Non-Conference Play With 77-56 Win at Yale

December 29, 2024 | Women's Basketball

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Senior Alex Giannaros dropped a team high 23 points and freshman Channing Warren scored a career best 15 points to help the Boston University women's basketball program notch a 77-56 victory over Yale on Sunday afternoon at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

BU (6-5) scored 27 points in the second quarter to finish the first half with 50 points, both season high-marks. The Terrier defense also coaxed the Bulldogs (1-12) to 2-of-23 shooting from beyond the arc.

Giannaros shot 7-for-9 from the field and was a perfect 4-for-4 from three-point range. Warren added six rebounds and two steals on her ledger.

Mackenzie Egger needed 21 shots to earn a game high 25 points. Ke'iara Odume added 10 points for Yale.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Sophomore Inés Monteagudo Pardo scored five straight points on a reverse layup and corner three, then Giannaros canned her own triple to put BU ahead 14-3 less than five minutes into the contest.
After Egger's layup, sophomore Bella McLaughlin's and-one jumpstarted a 9-2 Terrier run to push the lead to 23-7 with 1:40 left in the first quarter.
BU ignited the second quarter with a 7-0 spurt on Monteagudo's driving layup, Giannaros' three and a Warren layup for a 30-9 advantage.
BU didn't make a shot from the field from there until the 5:46 mark in the second, but junior Anete Adler had a three-point play began a 13-2 Terrier run over the next 2:45, giving the visitors a 45-13 edge.
Warren and McLaughlin closed the stanza with layups on the right block, pushing the gap to 50-20 at halftime.
Giannaros scored BU's first eight points in the third quarter, with her right-wing triple making it 58-31 four minutes into the frame.
Warren would then consecutively score seven of the team's final eight points, then a Giannaros free throw replenished the 30-point lead at the end of the third quarter, 68-38.
Yale got as close as 20 points in the fourth following a 9-0 burst, but Giannaros' right-elbow jumper just inside the arc and layups from Warren and Adler supplied the response to push BU's edge to 75-49 with 2:11 remaining in regulation.

STATS

The Terriers set season-highs in points (77), field goal percentage (.508), made baskets (30) and assists (22).
Overall, Yale shot 32.3 percent.
BU posted a 48-28 advantage in paint points and 31-16 in bench points.
The Terriers turned 18 Yale turnovers into 22 points.
Sophomore Audrey Ericksen led BU with six assists, equaling her career high.
Classmate Aoibhe Gormley collected five assists and four steals without surrendering a turnover.

NOTES

In her 13th career game with 20 or more points, Giannaros moved into 18th place in program history with 1,125 career points.
She also surpassed former teammate Maggie Pina (CAS'23) on the all-time three-pointers list and now ranks fifth at 189.
Warren entered the game with five total points and two total field goals in her first nine games. Her six rebounds and two steals were also personal bests.
The Terriers shot better than 50 percent from the field for the first time since Feb. 28 against Lehigh.
Finishing its non-conference slate at 6-5, BU has a winning percentage over .500 in back-to-back seasons vs. out-of-league foes for the first time since 2011-13.
The all-time series improves to 13-6 in the Terriers' favor.

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