ST. PAUL, Minn. – The North Dakota State women’s basketball team opened up Summit League play with a 73-59 win over St. Thomas on Saturday afternoon at Schoenecker Arena.
With the win, the Bison improve to 9-5 (1-0 Summit) on the season and have won each of their last four Summit League openers. St. Thomas falls to 8-7 (0-2 Summit) overall on the season.
Avery Koenen logged her third double-double of the season with a team-high 13 points and 11 rebounds. Abby Krzewinski netted 12 points with four rebounds and Abbie Draper narrowly missed a double-double of her own with 11 points and nine rebounds.
As a team, NDSU shot 51.1 percent (23-45) from the field and 42.9 percent (6-14) from three with nine players in the scoring column. The Bison tied a season-high 40 points in the paint and notched 23 points off of turnovers. NDSU also grabbed 40 rebounds in comparison to the Tommies’ 19.
After building a six-point, 51-45, lead after three quarters of play, NDSU started the fourth frame with a key 9-2 run spanning just over three minutes to stretch its edge to 60-47 with a layup from Draper at the 5:57 mark. The Bison then put together another 8-1 run to grow their largest lead of the contest, 70-54, with 2:04 remaining following a layup from Claire Stern. NDSU went on to close out the remaining time to pick up the 73-59 victory.
NDSU will be back in action hosting Denver on Thursday. Tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m., at Scheels Center.
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