INDIANAPOLIS – In the first contest of the new year, the IUPUI women’s basketball team defeated the Detroit Mercy Titans in an overtime thriller, 81-76. Katie Davidson recorded her second 30-point game with 30 points. Jazmyn Turner added a season-high 21 points.
IUPUI’s Davidson opened the scoring with a three-pointer, but Detroit Mercy’s Irene Murua quickly matched to tie the game at three in the opening minute. The teams then struggled to find the bottom of the net over the next few minutes of play, leading to a 11-8 Detroit Mercy lead at the first media timeout.
The offensive blunders continued out of the break, with neither team scoring in the first eight offensive possessions. Despite combining for just 26 points in the first nine minutes of play, the squads tallied seven points in the final 35 second of the quarter, with five coming from Detroit Mercy to extend its lead to seven, 20-13.
The Jaguars squared the match at 27 with just over five minutes remaining in the first half on a difficult layup by Turner. After holding the Titans scoreless for nearly five minutes, the Jags took the lead—their first since the 6:16 mark in the first quarter—on a driving layup from Logan Lewis.
Just like the first quarter, the Titans turned it on in the final minute of the half, notching seven points in the final 1:07 to take a 34-31 lead into the locker room.
After back-to-back and-one’s, the Jaguars again took the lead with just over two minutes remaining in the quarter. The Titans, however, tied the game at 47 the next time down the court.
IUPUI scored on its first four offensive possessions in the final quarter, including a three from Thalia Walton that gave the team a 56-55 advantage.
Out of the media timeout Detroit Mercy was firing on all cylinders, going on a 9-0 run to take a six-point lead and force head coach Kate Bruce to call her first timeout. Turner was quickly fouled and sent to the line where she knocked down both attempts to chip into the advantage. On the other end, Turner was credited with a steal, and after an offensive rebound, the graduate student was again sent to the charity stripe, cutting into the lead after two more points. Following another defensive stop, Davidson’s tough finish through traffic notched the score at 68 with 1:17 remaining on the clock.
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