2 weeks Ago By Field Level Media
JuJu Watkins posted 27 points and 10 rebounds and No. 3 Southern California survived a second-half comeback by No. 20 Ole Miss, earning a 68-66 win on Monday in Paris, France.
USC made its last 17 free throws, the last two by Stanford transfer Kiki Iriafen with nine seconds left for the final margin. Iriafen finished with 22 points and 13 rebounds. Watkins added five blocks, four assists, three steals and a whopping nine turnovers.
The Trojans had two critical offensive rebounds in the final minute to survive going the final 8 minutes, 47 seconds without a field goal. Ole Miss rallied after trailing 43-28 with 8:23 left in the third quarter, taking advantage of the Trojans' poor 3-point shooting (1 for 11) and turnover trouble (26). KK Deans scored 19 to lead the Rebels before fouling out on the play that sent Iriafen to the line for the decisive points.
No. 5 UCLA 66, No. 17 Louisville 59 Lauren Betts recorded 18 points, 13 rebounds, five assists and four blocks as the Bruins staved off the Cardinals in Paris, France.
UCLA led 32-29 at halftime and 50-46 after three quarters. Isla Juffermans made a jumper to cut the deficit to 50-48 before the Bruins rattled off 11 of the next 14 points. Betts had the final four points of that surge, with her layup giving UCLA its largest lead at 61-51 with 4:02 to play.
Timea Gardiner put up 15 points and Londynn Jones had 13 for the Bruins. Tajianna Roberts finished with 21 points for Louisville to lead all scorers, while Jaleah Williams had 11 points, nine assists and four steals. No.
8 Iowa State 96, Chicago State 56 The Cyclones scored the first 29 points of the game and shot 50.8 percent from the field in a runaway victory over the Cougars in Ames, Iowa. Addy Brown paced Iowa State with 20 points and nine rebounds.
Audi Crooks added 16 points and Aili Tanke and Alisa Williams each had 12. Aiyanna Culver broke up the shutout with a 3-pointer with three seconds left in the first quarter. Asha Walker led the Cougars with 18 points and Culver added 14, with each making four 3-pointers.
No. 11 Duke 89, Radford 36 Duke dominated with high-intensity, full-court pressure from the opening tip, holding Radford to 10 total field goals and 23.3 percent shooting in the game in Durham, N.
C. Turning 34 turnovers into 41 points, the Blue Devils built a double-digit lead that went to 15 points eight minutes into the game on Toby Fournier's sweeping right-handed layup. Six Blue Devils hit double figures in scoring, led by Jordan Wood with a game-high 13 points.
Sophomore guard Oluchi Okananwa had 10 points, five steals and six rebounds. Radford top scorer Cate Carlson had 10 points and two of the Highlanders' three 3-pointers (17 attempts) in the game. Duke missed 16 of 20 3-point attempts.
No. 13 Kansas State 92, Green Bay 45 Kennedy Taylor delivered 16 points and 11 rebounds off the bench and three other Wildcats scored in double figures in a wire-to-wire win in Manhattan, Kan. Jaelyn Glenn led Kansas State with 17 points and added nine boards and six assists.
Temira Poindexter tallied 15 points and Serena Sundell added 12 for the Wildcats, who led 28-7 after one quarter and 49-12 at halftime. K-State outrebounded Green Bay by a 56-25 margin and limited the Phoenix to 30.6 percent shooting (19 of 62).
Natalie McNeal led Green Bay with 14 points and seven rebounds. No. 15 North Carolina 83, Charleston Southern 53 Alyssa Ustby tallied 18 points, eight rebounds and four assists and Lexi Donarski contributed 14 points for the Tar Heels, who pulled away in the final minute of the second quarter in Chapel Hill, N.
C. Back-to-back Trayanna Crisp jumpers ended the second quarter and Donarski, a transfer from Iowa State making her debut at UNC, ripped the ball from CSU at midcourt to start the third with a layup and followed with a 3-pointer to crank the lead up to 43-23. Catherine Alben led the Buccaneers with 18 points.
No. 19 Florida State 119, North Florida 49 Ta'Niya Latson scored 27 points in 20 minutes, Sydney Bowles added 18 and Makayla Timpson put up 17 points, 22 rebounds and four assists as the Seminoles forced 26 turnovers that led to 46 points in a blowout in Tallahassee, Fla. Sarah Taub was the lone scorer in double digits for the Ospreys with 12 points.
North Florida turned it over on one-third of its possessions. No. 23 Nebraska 88, Omaha 48 Nebraska jumped in front 18-2 in the first quarter and never hit the brakes in a lopsided afternoon opener in Lincoln.
Alexis Markowski had 14 points, 11 rebounds and only missed one shot for the Cornhuskers, who got 14 points and six boards from Natalie Potts. Omaha forced 20 turnovers but committed 24 and shot 19 of 57 (33.3 percent) from the field.
The Mavericks were led by guard Alana Powell with 15 points. --Field Level Media.
