Weimar Lifts Terriers To PL Quarterfinal Win Over Black Knights, 64-62

Monday, March 11

Boston, MA

6:10 PM

Boston University

19-11,10-8Patriot

Army West Point (PL Quarterfinals)

12-17,9-9Patriot

Army West Point

Boston U.

Photo by: Matt Woolverton

Weimar Lifts Terriers To PL Quarterfinal Win Over Black Knights, 64-62

March 11, 2024 | Women's Basketball

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BOSTON – Senior Caitlin Weimar dropped 27 points, sophomore Anastasiia Semenova added 14 points, and the third-seeded Boston University women's basketball program staged a 64-62, comeback victory over No. 6 Army West Point in the Patriot League quarterfinal round on Monday evening at Case Gym.

BU (19-11) trailed by as many as 11 points to the Black Knights (12-17) in the first half. However, the Terriers ended the second quarter on an 11-2 run, and Weimar's layup with 1.5 seconds remaining in regulation lifted BU to the Patriot League semifinals for the fifth-consecutive season.

Weimar played all 40 minutes, registering 10 baskets, nine rebounds, and three blocks. Semenova made five of her nine shots.

Fiona Hastick paced Army with 17 points, while Trinity Hardy and Camryn Tade each dropped 12 points.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Weimar scored BU's first six points of the game, then Semenova nailed a left-wing triple to put the Terriers on top, 9-8.
The senior's and-one by the left block knotted the score at 12 with 1:08 on the clock, but Hardy's contested floater and Ericson's three put the visitors ahead by five heading to the second.
Giannaros' layup two minutes into second restored a five-point gap, but the Black Knights rattled off an 8-2 run that featured a pair of Camryn Tade buckets, pushing the Army advantage to 30-19 with 4:02 left until halftime.
Freshman Aoibhe Gormley connected on two layups to ignite an 11-2 Terrier burst to close the stanza. Classmate Audrey Ericksen hit a three-pointer, while Giannaros' step-back jumper before the buzzer closed BU's deficit to 32-30 at the break.
Ericksen opened the third with a layup to tie the game and erase the 11-point deficit, but Ericson answered with a three on the next play.
Semenova then scored six-consecutive points on two layups and two free throws, the latter pushing the Terriers in front, 38-37, with 5:25 to play in the third.
After Tade buried a three-pointer to make it 45-40 , Weimar scored six points in a row around Hardy's layup to bring BU back within one, 47-46.
However, Hastick's three-point play with 1.8 seconds on the timer gave Army a 50-46 edge heading to the fourth quarter.
Addison Ainsworth put back a second-chance layup to open the period, but a Weimar free throw and Gormley's open three from the right sideline pulled the Terriers within 52-50 with 7:19 to play.
Tade responded with her own triple on the next Army possession, but Semenova took Giannaros' pass at the top of the key a minute laterand drilled a three to once again make it a two-point contest.
After Kya Smith's free throws staked the Black Knights to a 57-53 edge, Ericksen knocked down a corner three with 3:21 on the clock. Gormley then picked off Ericson's pass, allowing Weimar to sink a layup to hand BU a 58-57 lead, its first since the 4:23 mark of the first quarter.
Smith made a layup on the next play, and after two foul shots from Weimar, Hastick canned a right-wing triple at the 1:56 mark to return the lead to Army, 62-60.
BU's defense held firm the rest of the way. After forcing Tade to throw the ball away, Giannaros drew a foul on a drive and swished two free throws with 47.4 seconds left to knot the game at 62-62.
Two jump balls sandwiched a midrange miss from Hastick, allowing the Terriers to gain possession with 16.7 ticks remaining. At the top of the key, Ericksen lofted a pass to Weimar by the left block. She got free thanks to a Giannaros back screen, banking the layup with 1.5 seconds to go for the two-point cushion.
Smith's baseline jumper at the buzzer was short.

STATS

BU shot 49 percent from the field. After hitting just two three-pointers in the first three quarters, the Terriers drained 3-of-5 from deep in the final frame.
Army West Point made just over 43 percent of its attempts, and was 7-for-19 from beyond the arc.
The Terriers scored 36 points in the paint, and turned 11 Black Knight turnovers into 16 points.
Giannaros led all student-athletes with five assists as BU collected 15 on 24 field goals.
Rebounding favored Army, 29-25.
BU led for just 3:47 in a contest that boasted eight ties and 11 lead changes.

NOTES

The Terriers have defeated the Black Knights in the Patriot League Tournament in the last three seasons.
BU has six Patriot League Tournament wins in the last four seasons, and is 7-3 in its last 10 such contests.
Weimar has now supplied go-ahead baskets in the final 22 seconds of three games this season, adding to her heroics against UMass Lowell on Nov. 6 and Holy Cross on Mar. 2.
In addition, she surpassed two former teammates in the BU record books. With her three blocks, she moves ahead of Maren Durant for second place in career rejections at BU, and her 10 field goals gives her 489 in the Scarlet and White, overtaking Sydney Johnson for ninth place in program history.
Weimar now has 209 field goals this season to become the third-different Terrier in program history to surpass 200 in a year, joining Debbie Miller (1979-81) and Jesyka Burks-Wiley (2008-09).
Semenova scored in double figures for the 10th time this season, and first since Feb. 17 at Navy.
The Terriers improve to 6-5 this year in games decided by six or fewer points.
Under Head Coach Melissa Graves, BU is now 40-9 at home. The Terriers' 15 wins at The Roof are the most in a single season in program history.
BU improves to 20-11 all-time against Army West Point, including 3-1 in Patriot League Tournament action.