{"id":35818,"date":"2023-01-03T18:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=35818"},"modified":"2023-01-03T18:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:27:33","slug":"womens-basketball-terriers-defeat-bucknell-pick-up-second-consecutive-conference-win-to-start-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2023\/01\/03\/womens-basketball-terriers-defeat-bucknell-pick-up-second-consecutive-conference-win-to-start-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Basketball: Terriers defeat Bucknell, pick up second consecutive conference win to start season"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charlie DeMatteo<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Boston University Women\u2019s Basketball (7-6, 2-0 PL) defeated the Bucknell Bison (4-9, 0-2 PL) 68-47 on Monday afternoon at Case Gymnasium, giving the Terriers their second consecutive Patriot League win to open the season.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a game where BU led for all but 30 seconds — but by a slender margin — a strong fourth quarter where the Terriers outscored the Bison 19-6 put the game to bed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just a great team effort in this one, everyone got a chance to get on the floor and to contribute,\u201d BU Head Coach Melissa Graves said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Strong defense from both sides in the opening quarter saw a low-scoring affair as BU held a 12-7 advantage after 10 minutes. Junior forward Caitlin Weimar (18 points, 16 rebounds, 3 blocks) hauled seven rebounds for the Terriers in the first quarter alone as Bucknell struggled to limit her impact on both sides of the ball.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we started and finished the game really strong defensively,\u201d Graves said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Freshman forward Sam Crispe started the second quarter with a 3-pointer to put the Terriers up eight before the Bison responded with a three of their own from Remi Sisselman to reduce the Terriers’ advantage to five.<\/span><\/p>\n

Behind nine points from Weimar and seven from Crispe, the Terriers entered halftime with a 31-22 advantage capped off by a half-court buzzer beater from senior guard Sydney Johnson, who finished the first half with 10 points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen [Weimar] plays like that it\u2019s really hard for us not to be dominant,\u201d Graves said. \u201cShe is just such a force inside on both sides of the ball.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An evenly matched third quarter saw little separate the two teams. The Bison outscored the Terriers by a single point 19-18 as BU entered the fourth quarter up 49-41.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, a close game quickly became a blowout as the Terriers started the fourth quarter on a 16-2 run to take a commanding 65-43 lead. Behind the Terriers run was scoring from their star players Weimar and Johnson, who finished with 18 points and 15 points, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Terriers were also stellar from the free throw line as they went 17-for-18 from the charity stripe.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the Terriers brought it on offense, their defense was also solid as they held the Bison to just 34% shooting from the field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After winning their first two Patriot League matchups of the season, the Terriers will look to make it three in a row when they travel to Easton, Pa to play Lafayette College on Thursday at 6 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charlie DeMatteo Boston University Women\u2019s Basketball (7-6, 2-0 PL) defeated the Bucknell Bison (4-9, 0-2 PL) 68-47 on Monday afternoon at Case Gymnasium, giving the Terriers their second consecutive Patriot League win to open the season. In a game where BU led for all but 30 seconds — but by a slender margin — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19881,"featured_media":35819,"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\/35818"}],"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\/19881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35822,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35818\/revisions\/35822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}