Jan. 16, 2016
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The Basics:
Score: Ohio 86, Central Michigan 84 (OT)
Location: The Convocation Center â€" Athens, Ohio
The Short Story: Down 10 points with four minutes to go in regulation, Kiyanna Black led the Ohio women’s basketball team (13-3, 5-0 MAC) to an 86-84 come-from-behind overtime victory against Central Michigan (9-7, 3-2 MAC) on Saturday afternoon in the Convocation Center. Black scored a career-high 39 points leading Ohio to its eighth-straight victory.
OHIO STARTERS: #4 Kiyanna Black, #5 Quiera Lampkins, #10 Lexie Baldwin, #12 Yamonie Jenkins, #15 Jasmine Weatherspoon
CENTRAL MICHIGAN STARTERS: #1 Da’Jourie Turner, #2 Tinara Moore, #3 Presley Hudson, #10 Cassie Breen, #13 Reyna Frost
How It Happened:
- An early three by Presley Hudson gave CMU a 3-0 jump and would ignite an aggressive Chippewa offense.
- At the first media timeout, the Bobcats trailed CMU 16-6.
- Ohio would trail the Chippewas 20-12 at the end of the first period.
- In the second quarter, Ohio would continue to struggle on offense.
- CMU would take the second quarter 18-14.
- CMU would hold on to the lead throughout the first half, shooting 39.4% (13-of-33) from the field and 20% (3-of-15) from beyond the arc and 90% (9-of-10) from the free throw line.
- CMU would take the first half, 38-26.
- At the half, Kiyanna Black and Jasmine Weatherspoon would lead Ohio each with five points. Weatherspoon added one steal and two rebounds.
- Both Tmisht Stinson and Yamonie Jenkins recorded four points in the first half while Quiera Lampkins added three.
- In the first half, Ohio shot 29.4% (10-of-34) from the field and 2-of-15 (13.3%) from beyond the arc and 66.7% (4-of-6) from the free throw line.
- Ohio recorded just 17 rebounds compared to 31 by CMU in the first two periods.
- Back-to-back threes in the start of the third quarter by Lexie Baldwin and Black would cut the Chippewas lead to seven, making it 45-38 at 6:03.
- Ohio cut the CMU lead further to five at 3:43 resulting in a 49-44 scoreboard.
- Ohio would take the third quarter 26-13.
- In the fourth quarter Black would sink two jumpers and steal a possession from the Chippewas to cut the CMU lead to five at 7:12 making it 64-59.
- A three from Lexie Baldwin would cut the Chippewas lead to 73-69, making it a four-point game.
- With 45.9 seconds remaining in the game, Black would sink two from behind the line to make it a two-point game and cut the CMU lead to 73-71.
- Ohio would foul CMU’s Presley Hudson who would sink two free throws and add two more points to the Chippewas score making it a 75-71 game with just 18 seconds remaining in the half.
- Then two made free throws by Hannah Boesieger would add to Ohio’s score, making it a 75-73 game with just 14 seconds to-play.
- Lampkins scored an important layup with 14 seconds left in the fourth quarter to tie the game up at 75-75 and push the game into overtime
- In overtime, Black would sink a jumper to tie the game up for the first time making it 79-79 at 3:40.
- Black’s free throw following the layup gave Ohio it’s first lead of the game, putting Ohio up 80-79
- Black would post a new career high with a layup at 3:28 to record 36 points and give Ohio an 82-79 lead.
- Mariah Harris would net one free throw to give Ohio an 86-84 lead and the game with 10 seconds left on the clock.
- Ohio would take overtime 11-9 and win the 86-84 victory.
- Black would lead both squads with 39 points going 50.0% (12-of-24) from the field, 38.4% (5-for-13) from beyond the arc and 100% (10-for-10) from behind the free throw line.
- Black also recorded three rebounds, three assists, and two steals in 40 minutes.
- Weatherspoon, Stinson, and Boesinger each added eight for Ohio.
- Stinson and Boesinger were both two-for-two from behind the free throw line
- Stinson and Weatherspoon each boarded five rebounds
- Baldwin led the team in rebounds with 11 and also added two steals
- Overall, Ohio shot 36.8% (28-of-76) from the field, 27.6% (8-of-29) from three-point range and 78.6% (22-of-28) from the charity stripe.
- The Bobcats grabbed 44 boards, dished out eight assists, had four blocks and 10 steals.
- The Bobcats turned the ball over nine times, but forced CMU to turn the ball over 18 times
- Ohio scored 34 points in the paint and 22 points off the bench and 22 points off of turnovers.
- For Central Michigan, Tinara Moore scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. Moore was 9-of-11 from the field, 1-of-1 from three-point range and 3-of-4 from the free throw line.
- Cassie Breen added 16 points and 8 rebounds, going 6-of-18 from the field and 4-of-12 from beyond the arc.
- Jewel Cotton also had 16 points and recorded five rebounds, going 7-of-8 from the field, 2-of-2 from the free throw line.
- Overall, CMU shot 39% (30-of-77) from the field, 20% (6-of-30) from three-point range and 18-of-21 (85.27%) from the free throw line.
- The Chippewas had 54 rebounds, 12 assists, four blocks and four steals.
- CMU scored 43 points in the paint, 13 points off of turnovers, 20 second chance points and 16 points off the bench.
Beyond the Boxscore:
- Kiyanna Black’s 39 points would mark as a career high for the senior
- The win marks as the 30th all-time win against Central Michigan
- This was head coach Bob Boldon’s 49th victory at Ohio.
- This was the 514th win in program history.
- This is Ohio’s eighth-straight win.
- Ohio’s 12th-straight conference win dating back to last season.
- Ohio is now 5-0 to start conference play for the first time ever.
- Lampkins tied her career-high with three made three pointers.
QUOTABLE
“I told them that if we didn’t get rebounds, we were going to lose and winning has always been important to these guys. I don’t know if anyone necessarily believed that rebounding was important. You kind of get tricked into thinking, after beating a very good Eastern team at Eastern and getting out-rebounded, that you can continue to play that way and it’s okay. Central showed us tonight that that’s no okay, that’s not a way to play basketball and it makes no statistical sense whatsoever for that to continue to work and it didn’t for most of this game.†Head Coach Bob Boldon on the role rebounding played in the game
“I just knew that the first half was terrible and I felt like I knew we needed to pick it up and I knew someone had to do it, and shots were falling so I just kept on going.†Kiyanna Black on her improvement from the first half to the second half.
COMING UP
The Bobcats hit the road on Wednesday Jan. 20 to battle with Kent State. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. in Kent, Ohio.
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