By: Sara Sturtevant<\/p>\n
After a grueling weekend series, Boston University women’s basketball took down the Colgate Raiders in a 62-58 showdown on Sunday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n BU found a new scoring leader in energetic junior Riley Childs, who put up a 14 points and 6 rebounds on the afternoon. Katie Nelson, who notched her 1,000th career point in yesterday’s matchup, played 40 minutes in today’s contest but was a bit quieter on the court with only 8 points and 3 assists.<\/span><\/p>\n The Terrier’s other regular top scorer, Sydney Johnson, had a tough afternoon in comparison to her teammates, as she recorded 5 fouls and 6 points in her total 13 minutes of playtime.<\/span><\/p>\n Despite this slight irregularity in their offensive force, BU\u2019s defense was able to lock up tight and keep the Raiders from gaining a steady lead.<\/span><\/p>\n Unlike yesterday\u2019s matchup, with BU outplaying Colgate in most areas on the court, the Raiders managed to tighten up some loose ends in their style of play. <\/span>The Raiders put up a fight on their home turf correcting their number of turnovers from a grossly 24 to a lesser 17. They also found opportunities on the fast break, improving to 6 transition buckets instead of Saturday’s zero.<\/span><\/p>\n This slight improvement was needed in order to be able to contend with their opponents going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n Colgate\u2019s leaders continue to be sophomore Alexa Brodie and freshman Tiasia McMillan. Combined they managed 31 points, which was more than half of the team’s total score.<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless of the Raiders’ ability to adapt to BU\u2019s speed, finding better communication and rhythm with each other, they still succumbed to the talents of Coach Moseley\u2019s Terriers.<\/span><\/p>\n Boston is now 4-0 this season in the Patriot League conference and are looking to continue their winning streak next Saturday, January 16th against Army at 3 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Sara Sturtevant After a grueling weekend series, Boston University women’s basketball took down the Colgate Raiders in a 62-58 showdown on Sunday afternoon. BU found a new scoring leader in energetic junior Riley Childs, who put up a 14 points and 6 rebounds on the afternoon. Katie Nelson, who notched her 1,000th career point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18591,"featured_media":25618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1040],"tags":[1725,1145,1305,1443,1474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25620,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25603\/revisions\/25620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}