{"id":28985,"date":"2021-11-14T19:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=28985"},"modified":"2021-11-22T18:49:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:49:30","slug":"womens-basketball-terriers-fall-to-1-1-after-loss-to-princeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2021\/11\/14\/womens-basketball-terriers-fall-to-1-1-after-loss-to-princeton\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Basketball: Terriers fall to 1-1 after loss to Princeton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sophie Beneventine dribbles against a defender in a Nov. 9, 2021 match against the University of Massachusetts Lowell. JOE EACHUS\/ WTBU SPORTS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Michael Wax<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

After a convincing win on Tuesday, Boston University women\u2019s basketball suffered its first loss of the 2021-22 season on Sunday afternoon, falling to Princeton 69-40.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe just gotta learn from this, regroup, and get ready for the next one,\u201d said Head Coach Melissa Graves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Graves thought the team mostly beat themselves, as BU put up an uncharacteristic 27 turnovers and was outscored 12-4 on second-chance opportunities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe struggled with our composure, we didn\u2019t take the best shots we could\u2019ve taken,\u201d Graves said. \u201cWe beat ourselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Princeton\u2019s 69 points were the most that BU has allowed in a single regular-season game since January 25, 2020, when the Terriers gave up 70 points to Holy Cross in an overtime victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we just struggled with our composure and struggled to run certain things,\u201d Graves said. \u201cWe gave them 31 points off of our turnovers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Graves\u2019 request for the next game was a cut and dry one: Take care of the basketball.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought UMass Lowell kind of prepared us because they\u2019re a very good pressure team and we were able to execute against them, but we have to regroup,\u201d Graves said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Princeton junior Julia Cunningham \u2014 who recorded the first double-double of her collegiate career during the game \u2014 posed a challenge for the Terriers, finishing with 20 points and 11 rebounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe is a difficult kid to defend,\u201d Graves said. \u201cShe can shoot the three, she can go to the basket. We knew that coming in. She had a good game today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other side, Emily Esposito led the Terriers with 11 points, while Riley Childs hauled down eight rebounds for BU. Graves was impressed with the latter, particularly her rebounding ability and leadership throughout the tough game.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a role she\u2019s continued to embrace, and she does a really good job with it,\u201d Graves said. \u201dWe\u2019ve been challenging her in practice to continue to do that, and I thought she did a great job today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sydney Johnson followed up a disappointing first half of shooting by leading the Terriers in points in the second half. Graves attributed that change in play to the way the team as a whole responded during the third and fourth periods.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA big piece of it was just for our guards to keep the composure, run the offense, and use two sides of the floor,\u201d Graves said. \u201cI thought she did a much better job of that in the second half.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Late in the fourth quarter, freshman Alex Giannaros collided with Princeton junior Grace Stone and was removed from the game as a precaution. However, Graves said that Giannaros was alright.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe just wanted to make sure, and also give Sophie [Beneventine] another opportunity,\u201d said Graves. \u201cSoph had over 30 people at the game today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

BU will look to bounce back on Wednesday at 6 pm against Boston College.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Michael Wax After a convincing win on Tuesday, Boston University women\u2019s basketball suffered its first loss of the 2021-22 season on Sunday afternoon, falling to Princeton 69-40. \u201cWe just gotta learn from this, regroup, and get ready for the next one,\u201d said Head Coach Melissa Graves. Graves thought the team mostly beat themselves, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18874,"featured_media":28873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,1039,1040],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985"}],"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\/18874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28987,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985\/revisions\/28987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}