Howard Bison @ Ohio State Buckeyes

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

26-8, 11-8 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Howard HOW	15	4	17	18	54
Ohio State OSU	20	23	19	13	75

Ohio State BuckeyesOhio StateOSU

27-7, 15-3 Home

Howard Bison

starters
Sa'lah HemingwayS. Hemingway#11
Nile MillerN. Miller#25
Zennia ThomasZ. Thomas#24
Ariella HeniganA. Henigan#4
Zoe StewartZ. Stewart#23
bench
Jada KendrickJ. Kendrick#14
Dally MorenoD. Moreno#12
Rayne DurantR. Durant#21
Jenesis PerrinJ. Perrin#34
Emma NuquayE. Nuquay#6
Destiny Bynum JohnsonD. Bynum Johnson#5
Dylan WatsonD. Watson#2
April EdwardsA. Edwards#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
23	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	4	1	4	1	0	0	4	1
18	3	1-4	0-0	1-2	4	0	0	0	0	3	1	4
37	15	6-19	0-3	3-6	6	0	0	0	0	2	4	1
30	14	4-15	0-3	6-10	10	0	3	1	1	4	6	1
36	12	6-11	0-1	0-0	3	0	5	1	0	0	3	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
5	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
9	3	0-0	0-0	3-4	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
8	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
3	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
7	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
19	2	0-2	0-1	2-2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
	54	19-56	0-9	16-26	38	3	17	4	1	13	25	15
		34%	0%	62%

Ohio State Buckeyes

starters
Elsa LemmiläE. Lemmilä#12
Jaloni CambridgeJ. Cambridge#22
Ava WatsonA. Watson#5
Chance GrayC. Gray#2
Kennedy CambridgeK. Cambridge#3
bench
Seini HenryS. Henry#15
Ella HobbsE. Hobbs#14
Bryn MartinB. Martin#8
Dasha BiriukD. Biriuk#7
Kylee KittsK. Kitts#1
T'yana ToddT. Todd#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
25	3	1-5	0-0	1-1	11	3	2	0	4	3	8	3
28	21	9-14	0-1	3-3	3	1	1	2	2	0	3	3
34	11	4-10	3-8	0-0	2	2	3	2	0	1	1	1
30	11	4-11	3-6	0-0	1	4	1	2	0	0	1	1
28	11	4-9	1-4	2-2	7	3	4	2	0	1	6	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	1	0-1	0-1	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
2	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	9	2-4	1-1	4-4	5	0	1	0	1	2	3	2
16	3	1-3	0-1	1-2	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	3
	75	27-60	9-24	12-14	33	14	14	9	7	7	26	18
		45%	38%	86%

Zennia Thomas muscles in jumper for Ohio State

0:20

Cambridge puts Buckeyes on top with back-to-back buckets

0:27

Zennia Thomas glides through the lane for a Bisons' layup

0:15

Game Information

Columbus, OH

Referee:Lisa Jones

Referee:Felicity Willis

Referee:Kaz Beverley

NCAA Division I

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Howard	13-1	-	26-8
Maryland Eastern Shore	11-3	2	20-15
Norfolk State	11-3	2	18-15
Coppin State	6-8	7	10-23
North Carolina Central	5-9	8	9-20
Delaware State	4-10	9	7-23
Morgan State	4-10	9	5-26
South Carolina State	2-12	11	5-25

Big Ten Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
UCLA	18-0	-	37-1
Michigan	15-3	3	28-7
Iowa	15-3	3	27-7
Ohio State	13-5	5	27-8
Minnesota	13-5	5	24-9
Maryland	11-7	7	24-9
Michigan State	11-7	7	23-9
Washington	10-8	8	22-11
Illinois	9-9	9	22-12
USC	9-9	9	18-14
Oregon	8-10	10	23-13
Nebraska	7-11	11	19-13
Indiana	6-12	12	18-14
Wisconsin	5-13	13	16-18
Purdue	5-13	13	13-17
Penn State	4-14	14	11-18
Northwestern	2-16	16	8-21
Rutgers	1-17	17	9-20

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