Sam Rubin
Mackenzie Egger (shown here) had her fourth double-double of the season.
77
Winner Boston U. BU 6-5,0-0 Patriot
56
Yale Yale 1-12,0-0 Ivy League
Winner
Boston U. BU
6-5,0-0 Patriot
77
Final
56
Yale Yale
1-12,0-0 Ivy League
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Boston U. BU 23 27 18 9 77
Yale Yale 9 11 18 18 56

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Sam Rubin

Fourth-Quarter Surge, Double-Double from Egger Not Enough as Bulldogs Fall to BU

NEW HAVEN, Conn.  –  Facing a large halftime deficit, the Yale women's basketball team kept battling to the end Sunday afternoon against BU at John J. Lee Amphitheater. The Bulldogs made the fourth quarter their best quarter of the day, outscoring the Terriers 18-9 in that frame. Senior guard/forward Mackenzie Egger wound up with a double-double, 25 points and 11 rebounds. But that was not enough to overcome that early deficit, which was as large as 32 points, and BU came away with a 77-56 win. 
 
Yale (1-12, 0-0 Ivy League) was hurt early on by a 10-0 BU scoring run in the second quarter that turned a 35-13 Terrier lead into a 45-13 Terrier lead. The Bulldogs trailed 50-20 at halftime, but wound up outscoring BU 36-27 in the second half.
 
BU (6-5, 0-0 Patriot League) has now won four of its last six games after starting the season 2-3. 
 
 
STATISTICAL LEADERS
  • Senior guard/forward Mackenzie Egger led Yale with 25 points – three shy of her career high. She added a team-best 11 rebounds for her fourth double-double of the season. She also led Yale with five steals and four blocks, the most by a Bulldog this season.
  • Senior guard Avery Lee led Yale with four assists.
 
KEY STAT
  • BU outscored Yale 48-28 in the paint.
 
NOTES
  • The Bulldogs had a season-high 14 steals.
  • Egger drew six fouls on BU, best on the Bulldogs. First-year guard Ke'iara Odume was next with five fouls drawn.
  • Odume reached double digits in scoring (10 points) for the second time this season.
  • BU shot a blistering 84.6 percent in the second quarter. The Bulldogs then held the Terriers to 40 percent shooting in the third quarter and 25 percent shooting in the fourth quarter.
  • Lee had a career-high seven rebounds.
  • The Terriers are coached by Melissa Graves, who was an assistant coach at Yale for three seasons and helped the Bulldogs win the 2018 WBI Championship. The staff also includes video coordinator Adia Maund, sister of former Bulldog Alexandra Maund '19.
  • This was Yale's final non-conference game of the regular season.
 
WHAT'S NEXT
  • Yale hosts Harvard Saturday, Jan. 4 at 2:00 p.m. to start Ivy League play.
 
 
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