Final Stats

The Basics:
Score: Ohio 71, Akron 55
Location: James A. Rhodes Arena â€" Akron, Ohio 
The Short Story: Powered by Kiyanna Black’s season-high 31 points, the Ohio women’s basketball team (21-4, 12-2 MAC) defeated Akron (19-6, 9-5 MAC) for the second time this season, downing the Zips 71-55 inside James A. Rhodes Arena.

OHIO STARTERS: #2 Mariah Byard, #4 Kiyanna Black, #5 Quiera Lampkins, #10 Lexie Baldwin, #14 Kat Yelle
AKRON STARTERS: #5 Kerri McMahan, #15 Anita Brown, #22 Hannah Plybon, #23 DiAndra Gibson, #42 Sina King

How It Happened:
- Kiyanna Black scored the first eight points for the Bobcats.
- Ohio started the game trailing 6-2 at the 16:26 mark.
-Black then scored six-straight Bobcat points, with Quiera Lampkins making a layup to put Ohio ahead by one at the 15:00 mark, and the Bobcats never looked back.
- Black scored 18 points in the first half, going 6-of-14 from the field and 3-of-7 from the three-point line.
- Ohio led 33-22 at the end of the first half.
- The Bobcats forced Akron to turn the ball over 15 times in the first half.
- The Bobcats grabbed seven steals in the first half.
- Jasmine Weatherspoon and Quiera Lampkins both recorded four points for Ohio in the first half of play.
- Black continued to dominate in the second half, scoring 13 points.
- Overall, Black finished the game with 31 points, going 10-of-24 from the field, 4-of-12 from beyond the arc and a perfect 7-for-7 for from the charity stripe.
- The Bobcats forced 23 turnovers and scored 18 points off of them.
- Ohio’s bench added 22 points for Ohio.
- Hannah Boesinger scored nine points for Ohio and grabbed six boards.
- Boesinger and Lampkins tied for a team-high six rebounds.
- The Bobcats recorded 32 rebounds.
- Lampkins added eight points for Ohio, going 4-of-10 from the field.
- Overall, Ohio recorded 12 steals.
- The Bobcats shot 77.8% from the charity stripe (14-of-18).
- Leading Akron, Sina King led the Zips with 16 points and 12 rebounds.
- Anita Brown added 14 points and six boards for the Zips.
- Akron shot 19-of-51 (37.3%) from the field.
- The Bobcat defense held Akron to 4-of-18 (22.2%) from the beyond the arc.  

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- The Bobcats have reached 21 wins for the first time since 1994-95.
- Black’s 31 points is a season-high for the junior guard.
- The win over Akron gave Ohio their 20^th career-win over the Zips.
- This is the first time Ohio defeated Akron on its home court since Feb. 20, 2008.
- The Bobcats reached 12 conference wins for the first time since 1997-98.
- The Bobcats now hold a three-game lead in the MAC East.
- The victory gave Ohio back-to-back wins against Akron for the first time since the Bobcats defeated them on Feb. 20, 2008 and Jan. 14 2009.
- The Bobcat defense held Akron to its lowest point total of the season.
- Black’s 31-point performance was the first time since Nov. 10, 2013 that a Bobcat scored at least 30 points (Black, 35).
- With seven more made threes, Ohio is now at 231 for the season. Ohio needs four more to set a new women’s program record (234).

QUOTABLE
Head Coach Bob Boldon:
“I mean our kids just played hard. That was a heck of a bounce back after a tough loss at home. Akron's good. They've been scoring in the 80s and have multiple times and had two chances to score in the 80s last week in here. I thought defensively our girls were really solid. I thought we showed a lot of toughness.”



COMING UP
The Bobcats head home for the first of back-to-back games in Athens when they take on Buffalo on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. inside the Convocation Center.

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