Stout Defense Late Leads Bulls to 62-56 Win Over Bowling Green

Saturday, February 22

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Stout Defense Late Leads Bulls to 62-56 Win Over Bowling Green

2/22/2020 3:38:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

BOWLING GREEN, OH – The University at Buffalo women's basketball team outscored Bowling Green 16-9 in the fourth quarter to defeat the Falcons 62-56 at the Stroh Center on Saturday afternoon.

The Bulls are now a perfect 10-0 this season when holding teams to 59 points or less. Over the last three seasons, Buffalo is 47-0 when holding opponents under that mark.

Buffalo was led by Dyaisha Fair who scored a game-high 21 points. Senior Theresa Onwuka scored 16 points to go along with eight rebounds and two assists and sophomore Keowa Walters also got into double figures with 12 points and six rebounds. Sophomore Adebola Adeyeye was one off her career-high with 13 rebounds.

Bowling Green would shoot red hot from beyond the arc to start the game, going 3-of-5 from deep in the early going to take an 11-2 lead at the 5:59 mark and force a UB timeout. The Falcons would extend the run to 17-2 on another three before the Bulls ended a four minute scoring drought on an Onwuka mid-range jumper to spark a 10-2 run, capped by a pair of buckets by Walters, to cut the Falcons lead to 19-12 at the end of the first.

The Falcons would extend their lead to 10 early in the second quarter before Hall drained a triple from the corner to cut the lead to 24-17 at the 8:36 mark. Fair would heat up going on a 7-0 run by herself, capped by a transition three to pull the Bulls within one and force a BGSU timeout at the 6:06 mark. The Bulls came up with a big stop at the one minute mark and Aireal Dickson converted on a pull-up jumper on the other end to tie the game at 29 with 49 seconds remaining and UB would get one final stop keep the game knotted at the half.

Back-to-back buckets by Onwuka and Adeyeye would give UB its first lead of the game, 33-29, early in the third quarter. BGSU answered with a 5-0 run to retake the lead 34-33 at the 8:11 mark. Later, a 6-2 Bulls run would put Buffalo up 46-42 with just under a minute to play but the Falcons closed the quarter on a 5-0 run to take a 47-46 lead at the end of the third.

Buffalo would open the fourth quarter on a 6-2 run, capped by a pair Onwuka pull up jumpers to take a 52-49 lead at the final media timeout. Onwuka continued to stay aggressive as she got the bucket through contact to put UB up 54-52 with just under five minutes to play. With 29 seconds to go with the Bulls up two and BGSU with the ball, Dickson came up with a big steal and Fair laid it in to put UB up 60-56 that would be all the Bulls would need to secure the victory.

The Bulls won the rebounding battle 40-36 and scored 44 points in the paint. Buffalo also scored 10 second chance points off of 13 offensive rebounds and scored 12 fastbreak points while holding the Falcons to zero points in transition.

"We played 10 people today and I thought our depth was a big key to our success," said head coach Felisha Legette-Jack. "I love the minutes that Aireal gave us today. To me defense is a microcosm of life and what you allow people to take from you is your fault. What we decided is if you're going to take a shot and make a shot you are going to have to earn that opportunity."

Buffalo returns home to host Miami (OH) in their Pink Day Game at Alumni Arena on Wednesday, February 26, at 7pm.