{"id":29639,"date":"2022-01-22T19:35:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T00:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=29639"},"modified":"2022-01-22T19:35:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T00:35:46","slug":"womens-basketball-terriers-lose-first-conference-matchup-drop-to-lehigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2022\/01\/22\/womens-basketball-terriers-lose-first-conference-matchup-drop-to-lehigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Basketball: Terriers lose first conference matchup, drop to Lehigh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maren Durant shoots a free throw Jan. 19, 2022 against Loyola University Maryland. Durant scored a career-best 22 points in the Terriers’ loss to Lehigh University Saturday. JOE EACHUS\/ WTBU SPORTS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Hannah Yoshinaga\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A career-high 22 points from junior forward Maren Durant and a game-leading 24 from junior guard Sydney Johnson were not enough for BU women’s basketball to stay undefeated in conference play Saturday, and the Terriers fell 79-67 to Lehigh on the road.<\/p>\n

The matchup was the teams’ first meeting since the Mountain Hawks defeated the Terriers 64-54 in the 2021 Patriot League Tournament to earn an NCAA Tournament berth.<\/p>\n

BU kept the score close early in the first quarter, trading buckets with Lehigh and forcing four quick turnovers. However, the Terriers were unable to counter a 15-6 run by the Mountain Hawks in the last five minutes, ending the period down 22-12.<\/p>\n

Durant helped to keep BU in the hunt in the second, but Lehigh’s Megan Walker and Emma Grothaus extended the Mountain Hawks’ lead in the final moments of the half.<\/p>\n

Entering the third quarter down by 12, Durant, Johnson and junior guard Maggie Pina cut the lead to single digits. The Mountain Hawks responded with a 13-6 run to gain their biggest lead of the game, 16 points.<\/p>\n

The Terriers entered the fourth with a seven-point deficit, but Durant kept the score close in the first few minutes with a layup. Senior forward Emily Esposito subsequently made three consecutive shots, bringing the score to 62-58.<\/p>\n

A three by Walker later brought Lehigh’s lead to 11 points. BU never trailed by fewer than six points for the remainder of the contest, unable to hit a shot in the final 1:39 of the contest.<\/p>\n

Outside of Durant and Johnson, the Terriers struggled to connect from the field. The remaining six players who saw action in the game combined to go 9-for-33.<\/p>\n

Gathering rebounds also proved problematic, with Lehigh maintaining a 46-34 advantage on the boards.<\/p>\n

The Mountain Hawks’ Walker finished with a team-high 20 points. Grothaus secured a double-double, her fifth of the season and second against a Patriot League opponent, with 17 points and 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n

BU’s only win against Lehigh since February 2019 was a one-point home victory on Feb. 26, 2020.<\/p>\n

The Terriers have a four-day break until they return home to face Lafayette on Wednesday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Hannah Yoshinaga\u00a0 A career-high 22 points from junior forward Maren Durant and a game-leading 24 from junior guard Sydney Johnson were not enough for BU women’s basketball to stay undefeated in conference play Saturday, and the Terriers fell 79-67 to Lehigh on the road. The matchup was the teams’ first meeting since the Mountain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18183,"featured_media":29614,"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\/29639"}],"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\/18183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29640,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29639\/revisions\/29640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}