SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The Yale women's basketball team led Syracuse midway through the second quarter Sunday afternoon at the JMA Wireless Dome, with a three-pointer from first-year guard
Ciniya Moore giving the Bulldogs an 18-16 edge. To that point, Yale had limited the Orange to 6-for-21 shooting (.286) and generated 10 Syracuse turnovers. But SU then went on a 9-0 run that turned the tide of them game, and the Orange never looked back. They went on to top the Bulldogs 78-50.
Yale (1-8, 0-0 Ivy League) overcame Syracuse's size advantage with hustle in the early going, including 13 offensive rebounds in the first half – six by first-year guard
Marisa Chapman alone. But the Orange eventually got their offense rolling behind speedy six-foot guard Georgia Woolley (16 points) and six-foot-four center Izabel Varejão (12 points, 11 rebounds). Syracuse (4-4, 0-0 ACC) outscored Yale 51-22 in the second and third quarters, making a solid fourth quarter by Yale (18 points) a moot point.
STATISTICAL LEADERS
KEY STAT
- Syracuse recovered from a .267 (4-for-15) shooting performance in the first quarter to shoot .571 (8-for-14) in the second quarter.
NOTES
- For 8:26 in the first quarter (from the 9:15 mark to the 0:49 mark), Yale did not allow a field goal. Syracuse's only point in that span came from the free throw line.
- The game was a homecoming for first-year guard Ke'iara Odume, a Syracuse native. She scored two points, adding a rebound and a steal.
- First-year guard Ciniya Moore made her first career start.
- The Bulldogs had a season-high 26 three-point attempts.
- Egger's double-double was her third in the last five games.
- Yale held Syracuse to its third-lowest shooting percentage of the season (.435).
- The Bulldogs allowed only one three-pointer (on eight attempts).
WHAT'S NEXT
- Yale hosts Fordham Wednesday at 6:00 p.m.
