KSU Outlasts Falcons Despite Thompson's Career Day

Saturday, February 29

Bowling Green, OH

2:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

9-19,2-14MAC

Kent State

17-10,10-6MAC

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Kent St.

Bowling Green

Caterrion Thompson exploded for a career-high 32 points & tied the school record with 8 three-pointers

Photo by: Isaiah Vazquez/BGSU Athletics

February 29, 2020 | Women's Basketball

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Flashes escape the Stroh with a 96-86, double-OT win

By: by Mike Cihon, Assistant Director for Athletic Communications

Caterrion Thompson exploded for a career-high 32 points and tied a school record, but Kent State University was able to escape the Stroh Center with a 96-86 double-overtime victory over the Bowling Green women's basketball team Saturday afternoon (Feb. 29).

On Senior Day, Thompson – a fourth-year Falcon – matched the BGSU single-game record by making eight three-point field goals. Thompson was 8-for-10 from the arc and pulled down nine rebounds on the afternoon.

Junior Angela Perry scored 24 points and had a game-high five blocked shots, while sophomore Kadie Hempfling had a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds, adding a team-high six assists.

For the Golden Flashes, Katie Shumate had 27 points to pace five players in double figures. Megan Carter scored 21, Asiah Dingle and Lindsey Thall 15 apiece and Hannah Young 12.

While that quintet hit double digits for the visitors, it was Nila Blackford's buzzer-beating layup that sent the game to a second overtime. It was the only shot Blackford made in the contest.

The Falcons had a slightly better field-goal percentage on the day, and BG shot better than 53 percent from three-point range to KSU's 46% rate. The Falcons held a 49-44 rebounding advantage as well.

But, the Flashes made three more long-range shots and five more free throws than the hosts, and the visitors had a 25-11 lead in points off turnovers. Eleven of those points off turnovers came in the two overtime periods.

BGSU RECORD BOOK
3-Point FG Made, Game

🔸 8 - Whitney Taylor, 1/16/08 v KSU
🔸 8 - Tracy Pontius, 3/14/09 v UT
🔸 8 - Morgan McMillen, 11/13/18 v Marshall
🔸 8 - RION THOMPSON, TODAY#AyZiggy | #OneMore | #THREEon pic.twitter.com/Fv3cTs2eFx
— BGSU WBB (@BGSUwbb) March 1, 2020

SENIOR DAY RECOGNITION

FIRST QUARTER
• The Falcons were en fuego out of the starting gate, scoring the game's first nine points. Perry scored on each of BGSU's first three possessions of the afternoon, and a Thompson triple prompted a Kent State timeout with just 2:30 elapsed.
• Out of the timeout, the Flashes got on the board, but freshman Elissa Brett hit a free throw, then found Thompson for a transition layup. Buckets by Thompson and senior Clare Glowniak gave the Falcons a 17-2 lead, and after Dingle scored her second hoop of the day, another Glowniak layup was followed by a Thompson trey. The Falcons were 8-of-9 from the field and held a 22-4 lead.
• Freshman Olivia Trice hit a charity toss to put the hosts up by 19, and moments later, sophomore Morgan McMillen found Glowniak for another bucket and a 25-6 BGSU lead. Dingle's layup in the final minute closed the first-quarter scoring.
• BGSU went 9-of-15 from the field in the first quarter, missing the final five shots of the period after shooting 90 percent from the floor over the first seven-plus minutes.
• KSU was 3-for-21 in the first 10 minutes, with Dingle going 3-of-7 and her teammates a combined 0-for-14.
• Thompson had 11 first-quarter points to singlehandedly outscore the Flashes in the opening 10 minutes.

SECOND QUARTER
• One might say the first half was a tale of two quarters. After scoring just eight points in the opening 10 minutes, the Flashes tallied 27 in the second period.
• The teams traded points in the opening minutes, though, as Thompson's triple answered a pair of Shumate free throws, and after Shumate scored four-straight points, Perry's layup and another Thompson trey gave BG a 33-14 lead with 6:56 left in the half.
• But, the visitors then went on a 13-0 run, scoring those 13 points in just over two minutes. Carter scored the first seven points in that stretch, and long-distance shots by Shumate and Young brought the Flashes within six points with 4:19 left in the quarter.
• Perry stopped that run with a layup off of a Hempfling assist, beginning a stretch in which Young and Perry traded hoops. Young connected from the arc, then hit a layup, but the BG junior answered with shots in the paint each time, but the final bucket giving the hosts an eight-point lead. After Shumate's jumper with 2:01 to go, neither team scored in the remainder of the half.
• KSU shot 64% from the floor in the period, and after going 0-for-5 from the arc in the first quarter, the visitors were a perfect 5-for-5 in the second.
• Shumate (12 points), Young (8) and Carter (7) accounted for all 27 second-period points for the Flashes, while Perry (9) and Thompson (6) combined for all 15 BG points in the quarter.
• In all, Thompson and Perry had a combined 32 of BG's 40 first-half points.

THIRD QUARTER
• Thompson and Perry began the third-period scoring, putting BG up by nine, and after the Flashes scored the next five points, Thompson tracked down a teammate's miss and hit another triple, giving the hosts a 47-40 lead.
• Then, however, the visitors went on a 15-2 run to take the lead for the first time. Thall began that stretch with a long-range make, and after Hempfling answered with a layup, the Flashes scored the next 12 points. Carter's driving layup at the 4:03 mark put KSU up by a 50-49 score, and Thall's third three of the quarter extended the lead. When Young hit a layup, the Flashes took a 55-49 advantage with just over a minute left in the period.
• Another Hempfling bucket snapped BG's scoreless streak of five-plus minutes and put the Falcons within four points after 30 minutes.
• Thall scored 11 points in the period as the Flashes shot 53% from the floor.

FOURTH QUARTER
• Perry scored the first four points of the quarter, with the second bucket tying the game. After Carter split a pair of free throws, Hempfling knocked down two attempts at the stripe, then converted a driving layup for a 59-56 BG lead with six minutes to go.
• But, Shumate scored four-straight points, and Dingle hit a free throw, then a layup to give the visitors a four-point advantage. Thompson hit yet another trey, but Thall scored inside to make it a 65-62 KSU lead.
• The Flashes went ahead by four on a Carter charity toss with 2:52 left in regulation, and after another Thompson triple, Carter made a pair of shots at the line with 1:46 remaining.
• Thompson hit two tosses, but a Mariah Modkins corner three gave KSU a 72-68 lead with 1:13 left. As the clock ticked under a minute, Hempfling cut the Flashes' advantage in half with a driving layup.
• BG got a stop, and Hempfling was fouled with 19 seconds remaining, but missed both free throws. Carter grabbed the rebound, but Hempfling tied her up for a jump ball, with the possession arrow favoring the Falcons. That possession saw Hempfling drive and score off glass to tie the game. Carter's jumper was off the mark as time expired.
• Hempfling and Thompson each scored eight points in the fourth quarter, while Perry scored five and had a plus/minute rating of +8 in the 10 minutes.
• Four players scored in double figures in the second half alone, as Thompson (13) and Hempfling (12) turned the trick for the Falcons and Thall (13) and Carter (10) for the Flashes.

OVERTIME
• Shumate scored off of the jump ball, but McMillen answered with a driving layup, and the soph them hit a pair of free throws. KSU got back-to-back buckets before Hempfling's driving layup made it a 78-78 game.
• The teams traded free throws, with Trice converting twice to tie the contest once again with 1:43 left.
• Blackford made a free throw in the final minute, giving the visitors a one-point lead, but Thompson tracked down her own miss and hit a pull-up shot in the paint with 16 seconds to go. At the other end, Carter drove toward the hoop, but Perry stole the ball away. McMillen was fouled and made her first free throw, but missed the second. Carter grabbed the rebound and the visitors used a timeout with just over three seconds to go.
• From near her team's bench, Carter fired an inbounds pass to Shumate, who drove toward the hoop and quickly found a cutting Blackford on the other side of the lane for a game-tying layup as the buzzer sounded.
• In the second OT, the Flashes scored the first 11 points. A Dingle steal and layup began the scoring, and after a Shumate triple, Dingle again came up with a steal. This time, she missed her layup try, but Thall was there for the putback and a 90-83 KSU lead.
• After that bucket, neither team scored for over two minutes. Shumate scored twice at the line, and after a BG miss, Carter got to the stripe and hit both shots.
• Junior Madisen Parker knocked down a free-throw attempt, and Perry hit a layup, but it was not enough to cut into the KSU lead.
• Shumate scored 11 points in the overtime periods, while McMillen had a team-high five points in the two extra sessions for the Falcons.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
• The Falcons had a 44-34 advantage in points in the paint, but KSU held the lead in points off turnovers (25-11), second-chance points (14-11), fast-break points (21-9) and bench scoring (27-14).
• BGSU led for 27:25 of the 50 minutes, while KSU held the lead for 17:42.
• Brett had a double-digit rebounding game with 10 boards on the afternoon.

UP NEXT
• The Falcons will end the regular season with a pair of road games next week. BGSU takes on Miami Wednesday night (March 4), with tipoff at 7:00 p.m., before facing Akron next Saturday afternoon (March 7).
• Then, BG will prepare for a MAC Tournament first-round game. the league tourney begins with first-round contests at campus sites on Monday, March 9.

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