Morehouse, List, and Carter were named to the ASUN Conference All-Tournament Team, with Morehouse earning MVP honors. And redshirt sophomore guard/forward Maddie Antenucci( Cincinnati, Ohio/Indian Hill HS) delivered a season-high 14 points and a game-high eight rebounds. Groves HS/Walsh), the ASUN Scholar-Athlete of the Year and First-Team All-ASUN pick, went for 15 points and six rebounds. Graduate guard Sha Carter ( Southfield, Mich./Wylie E. Graduate guard Emma List( Colorado Springs, Colo./Discovery Canyon Campus/Albany) scored a season-high 16 points, doled out seven assists and nicked a season-high five steals. Fifth-year guard and ASUN Player of the Year Tishara Morehouse ( Milwaukee, Wis./Rufus King HS/Nebraska CC) dropped 20 points and six assists. The Cougars were the most efficient team in the tournament, draining 92 of 199 attempts from the floor, a 46.2 percent clip.įGCU earned its Big Dance ticket by defeating Liberty 84-60 in the ASUN Tournament title game – adding to a ledger that includes an incredible 23 ASUN regular season and tournament championships in its 14-year Division I history.įour Eagles scored in double figures in vanquishing Liberty and avenging the 88-78 overtime loss to the Flames that marred an otherwise perfect march through the ASUN. Washington State relied on its offense throughout the Pac-12 Tournament, shooting 53.7 percent from the field against UCLA in the finals (22-of-41), and making seven of 11 3-point attempts. Washington State is second in the Pac-12 in 3-point percentage defense, holding their opponents to 30.2 percent from deep. The Cougars rank eighth in the 12-team conference offensively, delivering 67.2 points per game, and are fifth defensively allowing 60.9 points per contest. Merekatete adds 13.9 points with a team-best 7.1 rebounds per outing. Leger-Walker averages a team-high 18.1 points (which ranks third in the Pac-12) and 4.2 assists per game. Junior guard Charlisse Leger-Walker scored 23 points, and senior center Bella Murekatete added 21 in the Pac-12 title game – the first Pac-12 Championship for a Washington State women's sport in school history and the lowest seed ever to win the Pac-12 Tournament. 3 seed and 20 th-ranked Colorado 61-49, and finally upending the 19 th-ranked Bruins 65-61. 2 seed and third-ranked Utah 66-58, taking down No.
The Cougars earned their third straight trip to the NCAA Tournament (fourth overall: 1991, 2021, 2022) by defeating No. A game time for Monday's game will be determined late Saturday. 13 Cleveland State in Monday's Second Round. The Eagles-Cougars winner gets the winner of No.
Those four straight came in the Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas, in which the Cougars entered as seventh seed and knocked off three ranked teams en route to the first Pac-12 Tournament championship by a women's team in school history. Washington State (23-10) has won four straight games, and six of its last seven, heading into Saturday's game.
The Eagles are 3-8 all time in March Madness games, advancing to the Second Round in 2015, 20. EDT, and the game will be broadcast on ESPNU.įGCU is one of the hottest teams in the country, having won 14 straight games – which includes capturing a 13 th ASUN regular-season title and the ASUN Tournament crown for a record 10 th time. 22 FGCU women's basketball team (32-3) begins its journey Saturday in the 2023 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, as the 12 th-seeded Eagles take on fifth-seeded and 23 rd-ranked Washington State inside Finneran Pavilion in the First Round.
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