Fair Leads Bulls Past BGSU

Wednesday, January 5

Bowling Green, Ohio

7:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

6-5,1-1MAC

Buffalo

9-4,3-0MAC

Buffalo

Bowling Green

Photo by: Mallory Hiser, BGSU Athletics

January 05, 2022 | Women's Basketball

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Buffalo guard scores 40 points in 82-66 win

By: by Mike Cihon, BGSU Strategic Communications

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Dyaisha Fair exploded for a career-high 40 points, leading the University at Buffalo to an 82-66 win over the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team Wednesday night (Jan. 5) inside the Stroh Center.

Fair and the Bulls (9-4, 3-0 Mid-American Conference) built a 22-point halftime lead, taking a 43-21 advantage into the intermission. The Falcons (6-5, 1-1 MAC) were able to creep within 11 points on two occasions in the second half, but could not cut the deficit to single digits.

The loss snapped BGSU's five-game winning streak. It was also the Falcons' first double-digit loss to a MAC team since March of 2020.

Fair was 14-of-22 from the floor, including 6-for-10 from three-point range, en route to breaking the Stroh Center single-game scoring record. Summer Hemphill had a double-double, with 19 points and a game-high 10 rebounds for the Bulls, while Dominique Camp added 11 points.

Freshman Amy Velasco scored 15 points to lead three double-figure scorers for BGSU. Senior Kadie Hempfling had 12 points and six rebounds, while junior Elissa Brett had 11 points and five boards.

QUOTING COACH FRALICK
"It was a really disappointing first half for us. That was the difference in the game. Obviously, Buffalo is a really good team, and we can't come out to start the game the way we did. We need to learn a lesson from this moving forward."

FIRST QUARTER
• Elissa Brett gave the Falcons an early lead, hitting a corner three on BG's first offensive possession of the night. Moments later, Amy Velasco knocked down a shot from outside the arc for a 6-4 BGSU lead.
• But, a pair of buckets by Dyaisha Fair began a 12-0 run for the visitors. Fair scored six points during that stretch, and when she fed Dominique Camp for a transition layup, UB had a 16-6 lead.
• Sophie Dziekan snapped BGSU's four-minute scoreless streak with a banker, and after a pair of Kadie Hempfling free throws and a Zoe Miller layup, the Falcons were back within four points. Adebola Adeyeye answered with a layup for the visitors, but Madisen Parker was fouled on a three-point try with just 4.1 seconds left in the quarter, and the fifth-year Falcon drained all three free-throw attempts, cutting the UB lead to 18-15 after 10 minutes.

SECOND QUARTER
• The second quarter, however, was all Buffalo. Velasco came up with a steal on the first possession of the period, and the freshman found Brett for a layup. But, leading by just a single point, the Bulls would score six-straight points, including back-to-back jumpers by Summer Hemphill.
• A Dziekan layup made it a five-point game, but UB responded with an 11-0 run, including seven-straight points from Fair. When Hemphill converted a layup at the 3:09 mark, Buffalo's lead was 35-19
• Hempfling's no-look pass freed Jocelyn Tate for a layup, but a Fair triple began a half-ending seven-point run for the visitors.

THIRD QUARTER
• Velasco hit a pull-up jumper early in the third period, and Nyla Hampton's pass led to a Hempfling three-pointer.
• BGSU scored on four-straight possessions, as after Hempfling's triple, Kenzie Lewis assisted Brett for a second-chance layup, then fed Morgan Sharps for a three-pointer. Then, Lewis picked up her third assist in as many trips down the floor, with her long pass finding Hampton for a layup that cut the UB lead to 49-33 at the media timeout.
• After Velasco's driving layup, Hempfling stole the ball, got it back from Sharps and knocked down a three-point try. BGSU had a 10-0 run, and the Falcons had cut the UB lead to just 11 points, at 49-38.
• But, Fair hit a long three-pointer on the next possession, and after the teams traded points over the next few minutes, Hemphill's three-point play gave the visitors a 59-43 lead after 30 minutes.

FOURTH QUARTER
• BG got a Brett layup and a Velasco pull-up jumper in the first two minutes of the final quarter, UB was scoring at the other end, and a step-back three-pointer by Fair gave the visitors a 20-point advantage, 67-47, with 7:33 to go.
• Hempfling hit a jumper, and after a pair of Hampton charity tosses, Velasco found Brett for a short-corner jumper. Then, after BG forced a miss, Hampton found Hempfling for a three-pointer that cut the UB lead to 11 points with 5:30 to go.
• Once again, however, Fair responded, hitting a triple to end BG's 9-0 run. Hampton drove the baseline and found Hempfling for a layup, but yet another triple by Fair gave the Bulls a 15-point lead, 73-58, with 4:22 on the clock.
• Camp was called for an intentional foul 14 seconds later, with Sharps hitting a pair of free throws, but BG could get no closer than that 13-point margin over the remaining four-plus minutes.
• Fair had 15 of UB's 23 fourth-quarter points.

STATS, NOTES & NUMBERS
• The Bulls shot 50.9 percent from the field on the night, and UB was 7-of-16 (43.8%) from three-point range.
• The Falcons shot 48.6% (17-of-35) in the second half, but it was not enough to offset a poor-shooting first half. BG shot 34.3% for the game, and the Falcons went 7-of-25 from the arc.
• UB shot 58.1% from the field in the first half, including 9-of-14 (64.3%) in the second quarter.
• The Bulls had a 44-33 rebounding advantage.
• In addition to BGSU's three double-digit scorers, Morgan Sharps had seven points, while Nyla Hampton added six and Zoe Miller five. Hampton had five assists on the night to lead all players.
• UB committed 17 turnovers to BGSU's 14, but the Bulls had a 16-11 advantage in points off turnovers.
• BG had leads of 9-5 in second-chance points and 22-3 in bench scoring.
• Kadie Hempfling made the 100th start of her BGSU career on Wednesday night. Hempfling came off the bench in her Falcon debut, at Michigan State (Nov. 6, 2018), and has been in the starting lineup for each of the 100 games since that time.

UP NEXT
• The Falcons will head to Northeast Ohio for back-to-back games, taking on Akron on Saturday (Jan. 8) afternoon, before meeting Kent State next Wednesday (Jan. 12). The schedule, as always, is subject to change.
• Log on to BGSUFalcons.com for all of the latest news and updates re: the 2021-22 Falcons.

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