Western Illinois Leathernecks @ North Carolina Tar Heels

NCAA Women's Basketball Championship - Regional 1 in Fort Worth - 1st Round

Western Illinois LeathernecksW IllinoisWIU

26-6, 9-5 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
W Illinois WIU	10	14	9	18	51
North Carolina UNC	18	20	20	24	82

North Carolina Tar HeelsNorth CarolinaUNC

27-7, 14-2 Home

Western Illinois Leathernecks

starters
Mallory ShetleyM. Shetley#10
Mia NicastroM. Nicastro#22
Kaylen ReedK. Reed#32
Addi BrownfieldA. Brownfield#13
Allie MeadowsA. Meadows#4
bench
Sidney SkrobotS. Skrobot#24
Katelyn EggenaK. Eggena#44
Kennedy HerrigK. Herrig#20
Shelby BowmanS. Bowman#2
Madison DavisM. Davis#1
Ainsley HolthausA. Holthaus#14
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
29	7	2-9	0-0	3-6	3	0	2	1	0	2	1	3
36	21	6-15	0-2	9-10	9	1	6	2	1	0	9	4
32	6	3-7	0-0	0-0	7	1	4	0	0	1	6	2
27	3	1-11	0-5	1-2	2	1	1	2	0	1	1	5
33	3	1-6	1-5	0-0	2	1	1	2	0	0	2	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
4	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
6	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
23	2	0-2	0-1	2-2	4	2	0	1	0	2	2	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	51	17-56	2-15	15-20	32	6	15	9	1	8	24	18
		30%	13%	75%

North Carolina Tar Heels

starters
Ciera ToomeyC. Toomey#21
Nyla HarrisN. Harris#2
Elina AarnisaloE. Aarnisalo#17
Lanie GrantL. Grant#0
Indya NivarI. Nivar#24
bench
Liza AstakhovaL. Astakhova#5
Blanca ThomasB. Thomas#34
Taissa QueirozT. Queiroz#26
Nyla BrooksN. Brooks#7
Taliyah HendersonT. Henderson#3
Jordan ZubichJ. Zubich#1
Sydney BarkerS. Barker#15
Laila HullL. Hull#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
20	5	2-3	0-1	1-2	4	2	1	2	1	1	3	2
22	17	6-9	0-1	5-6	12	0	1	3	0	8	4	2
28	7	3-7	1-4	0-3	8	1	1	0	1	1	7	2
25	15	5-13	4-10	1-1	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0
25	11	5-9	0-2	1-2	3	5	4	4	2	0	3	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4
15	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	3
23	14	5-14	2-9	2-3	5	2	2	0	0	1	4	0
10	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	3
4	0	0-3	0-3	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
17	9	3-9	3-9	0-0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0
	82	30-69	10-40	12-19	47	12	14	10	4	15	32	19
		43%	25%	63%

Mia Nicastro hits the basket vs. North Carolina Tar Heels

0:17

Elina Aarnisalo impresses with nice shot

0:16

What a shot by Elina Aarnisalo

0:21

Game Information

Chapel Hill, NC

Referee:Bruce Morris

Referee:Angelica Suffren

Referee:Angel Kent

NCAA Division I

Ohio Valley Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Western Illinois	16-4	-	26-6
Lindenwood	16-4	-	25-8
Southern Indiana	14-6	2	21-11
Morehead State	13-7	3	18-15
Little Rock	11-9	5	15-16
UT Martin	9-11	7	13-17
Tennessee Tech	8-12	8	15-14
SIU Edwardsville	8-12	8	16-16
Southeast Missouri State	8-12	8	14-18
Tennessee State	4-16	12	5-24
Eastern Illinois	3-17	13	4-27

Atlantic Coast Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Duke	16-2	-	27-9
Louisville	15-3	1	29-8
North Carolina	14-4	2	28-8
NC State	13-5	3	21-11
Syracuse	12-6	4	24-9
Virginia Tech	12-6	4	23-10
Notre Dame	12-6	4	25-11
Virginia	11-7	5	22-12
Clemson	11-7	5	21-12
California	9-9	7	21-15
Stanford	8-10	8	21-14
Miami	8-10	8	18-15
Georgia Tech	8-10	8	14-19
Florida State	5-13	11	10-21
Wake Forest	4-14	12	14-18
SMU	2-16	14	9-21
Pittsburgh	1-17	15	8-23
Boston College	1-17	15	5-26

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