ON TO THE FINAL! Women's Basketball Advances To Midwest Regional Final With 60-49 Win Over UMSL

OVERVIEW – UMSL

SCORE: #3 Northwood Timberwolves 60, #7 UMSL Tritons 49

RECORDS: Northwood 28-5, UMSL 25-6

LOCATION: GVSU Fieldhouse Arena – Allendale, Mich.

RECAP: Third-seeded Northwood advanced to the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament final with a 60-49 win over No. 7 seed Missouri-St. Louis 60-49 Saturday night (March 14).

GAME STORY

• Northwood scored the first four points of the game and held the lead the rest of the game.
• NU led by as many as six in the first point holding a 13-8 lead after one.
• The Timberwolves took their first double-digit lead of the game at 25-14.
• With the score 29-19 late in the half, Northwood finished the second on a 10-0 run to take a 39-19 lead at the break.
• UMSO responded with a strong start to the second half, scoring the first 10 points of the third to get within 10.
• Northwood netted the final four points of the third to take a 51-38 lead heading to the fourth.
• The Tritons battled in the fourth but got no closer than eight points before the Timberwolves closed out the 11-point victory.

GAME STATS

• FG PERCENTAGE: UMSL .350 (21-60), Northwood .423 (22-52)
• 3-PT PERCENTAGE: UMSL .150 (3-20), Northwood .278 (5-18)
• FREE THROW PERCENTAGE: UMSL .400 (4-10), Northwood .917 (11-12)
• REBOUNDS: UMSL 36 (14 offensive), Northwood 35 (Seven offensive)
• ASSISTS/TURNOVERS: UMSL 6/18, Northwood 8/20

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Maeve St. John: 23 points, seven rebounds, six assists, 6-6 from the foul line,
• Lea Holmes: 25 points, six rebounds, 11-19 from the floor

NORTHWOOD NOTES

• Northwood was 0-2 in the NCAA Tournament in program history entering this season, having lost opening round games in 2009 and 2021. NU has now won NCAA Tournament games on back-to-back nights.
• The win advances Northwood to the round of 16 in the tournament for the first time in program history.
• The Timberwolves' 28th win extended the program record for victories in a season. The 2008-09 team won 21 games for the old record.
• Northwood also extends school record for longest winning streak with their 18th straight win today. The old record was set in 1990-91 (10).
• In their two tournament wins, Northwood has led for a combined 72 of a possible 80 minutes (33:08 vs. Malone, 38:52 vs. UMSL). Malone (2:00) and UMSL (0:00) have led for a total of two minutes.
• In UMSL's upset win over No. 2 seed Ferris State Friday night, the Tritons went 12-24 from 3-point range, which included a 6-8 clip in the fourth quarter. Northwood held the Tritons to 3-20 from 3-point range overall, 0-6 in the fourth quarter.

UP NEXT

• The Timberwolves will play the winner of the No. 1 seeded Grand Valley State and No. 4 seed Wayne State in the Midwest Regional Championship game Monday (March 16). Game time is set for 7 p.m.