Terriers Outlast Mountain Hawks in Bethlehem, 68-64

Wednesday, January 14

Bethlehem, PA

6 PM

Boston University

5-11,1-4Patriot

Lehigh

8-8,4-1Patriot

Boston U.

Lehigh

Photo by: Boston University Athletics

Terriers Outlast Mountain Hawks in Bethlehem, 68-64

January 14, 2026 | Women's Basketball

Box Score Postgame Audio - Melissa Graves

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Senior Anastasiia Semenova dropped a season-high 18 points while classmate Anete Adler and junior Inés Monteagudo Pardo each tallied 15 points to power the Boston University women's basketball program to a 68-64 victory over defending Patriot League champion Lehigh on Wednesday evening at Stabler Arena.

BU (5-11, 1-4 PL) utilized a 21-point second quarter to take a lead it would not relinquish, snapping its four-game losing streak while handing the Mountain Hawks (8-8, 4-1 PL) their first Patriot League loss.

Semenova made nine of her 14 shots and scored 12 points in the first half. Monteagudo canned five three-pointers and dished out five assists. Adler led the Terriers with six rebounds.

Lily Fandre paced Lehigh with 17 points. Belle Bramer and Whitney Lind each posted 15 points.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Lehigh made four of its first five three-pointers and six of its first seven overall shots to build a 16-5 lead in the game's first six minutes.
BU cut the gap to one on a 10-0 run with consecutive threes from Monteagudo before Gracyn Lovette's triple handed the Mountain Hawks a 19-15 edge after one quarter.
Adler's and-1 at the 6:26 mark in the second period ignited a 7-0 Terrier run. She and Semenova made additional layups to put BU on top, 28-25.
Monteagudo lofted three passes to Semenova on the block that led to three baskets in the final 1:40 of the first half, giving BU a 36-28 halftime advantage.
Semenova and Monteagudo combined for the Terriers' first 10 points of the third quarter, with the latter burying two more triples to push BU's lead to 46-36.
Lehigh whittled the gap to five points before sophomore Rose Azmoudeh drilled a corner three. Junior Bella McLaughlin sank a driving layup, then Monteagudo's fifth three-pointer extended the difference to 54-41, BU's largest lead of the game.
Semenova opened the fourth quarter with a banked layup on a second-chance opportunity, but it was the last Terrier field goal for the next 3:18. Sophomore Allison Schwertner collected junior Aoibhe Gormley's pass for a layup that made it 58-51 with 5:18 to play.
Adler nailed a jumper at the 3:03 mark to give BU a six-point lead, 62-56. However, a 6-0 Mountain Hawk run, with four coming from Whitney Lind's foul shots, sliced the gap to 62-61 with 1:03 remaining.
Adler, sophomore Hildur Gunnsteinsdóttir and McLaughlin were able to hit their free throws from that point to seal the victory.

STATS

The Terriers made 56.3 percent of their shots, the fourth time in the last six games BU's field goal percentage was over 46 percent.
Lehigh made just over 35 percent of its shots and were 11-for-34 (32.4 percent) from beyond the arc.
BU assisted on 23 of its 27 baskets. Gormley led the Terriers with six assists.
The Terriers also had the edge in paint points (38-18), bench points (30-8) and rebounds (30-23).
The Mountain Hawks turned 17 Terrier turnovers into 20 points.

NOTES

Semenova leads the team with a .590 field goal percentage during conference action. She is averaging 10 points per game in those contests.
Adler is the third Terrier under fifth-year head coach Melissa Graves to score at least 12 points in her first five Patriot League games, joining Caitlin Weimar (2023-24) and Sydney Johnson (2021-22).
Monteagudo's five three-pointers establish a new personal best while her 15 points matches her career high from her performance at Northeastern on Dec. 22, 2023. She paired her five assists with zero turnovers.
BU captured its first road win since Nov. 15 at New Haven.
The all-time series between the Terriers and Mountain Hawks stands at 14-14.

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