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82
Maryville MU 18-10
88
Winner Truman TSU 23-6
Maryville MU
18-10
82
Final
88
Truman TSU
23-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 OT 1 F
Maryville MU 21 20 27 7 7 82
Truman TSU 15 25 14 21 13 88

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Kevin White, Truman Athletics

RECAP: Bulldogs March On After Huge Fourth Quarter Rally

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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Down 16 after the first basket of the fourth quarter, the Truman Women's Basketball team pulled out one of the biggest comebacks in school history to earn an 88-82 overtime win in the quarterfinal round over Maryville University at the Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament.
 
The #4-seeded Bulldogs trailed by one at the half 41-40 but a tough third quarter saw the#5-seeded Saints outscore Truman 27-14 and lead 68-54. A basket 1:02 into the quarter by Abby Monis put Maryville up 16 points.
 
Katie Jaseckas, who didn't play for the first two and a half quarters due to illness, was put into service and score the first two points of what would be a 16-0 run for Truman over the next 4:51. Five different Bulldogs contributed during the run and Sloane Totta's hoop with 3:51 left tied the game at 70 apiece.
 
From there it was a dogfight until the end of regulation. Right after Truman's first team all-conference player tied it, Maryville first team honoree, Mary Barton, punched through her fifth three-pointer of the night to put the Saints back on top.
 
Maryville led by three with under a minute when Katie Klucking, playing in a season-high 21 minutes, hit a left wing three-pointer to tie the game at 75. It was only Klucking's sixth three-pointer of the season and third since January 5th.
 
The Bulldogs had a chance to win in regulation with the final shot but Totta's jumper rolled off the rim at the buzzer.
 
Playing in their third overtime game of the season and second in three games, Truman was the fresher team in the extra period. Kayla Steward gave Maryville an 80-79 lead with 1:44 to go but Maddie Re rained in a shot from the free throw line to put the Bulldogs ahead for good.
 
Klucking then forced Barton to turn the ball over on the sideline on an inbounds pass with 36 seconds showing. Totta hit the first free throw but missed the second, however Re grabbed Truman's 20th offensive rebound of the night and fed Totta who was fouled again.
 
The junior made the Saints pay by draining both throws to make it a two-possession game. She would score two more at the line with nine seconds left to finish with a new season and career high of 29 points.  Totta was 10-of-21 from the field, 3-of-7 from outside, 6-of-8 at the line and added seven rebounds on the night she received her plaque for first team all-GLVC.
 
Re notched her sixth double-double of the season with 12 points and 11 rebounds, five coming on the offensive end. Allison Thomas, Brooke Bailey and Jaseckas all finished with eight each.
 
Barton finished with 21 points for the Saints in 44 minutes of court time and all five Maryville starters were in double-figures.
 
The win set a new school record for wins in a season with 23 for Truman and was the third largest comeback (16 points) since 2000. It was the latest the Bulldogs had trailed by double-figures to come back and win with the last coming against Central Missouri when they trailed by 15 points with 9:46 left and won 80-76 in overtime in 2002.
 
Truman's reward for advancing to the semifinals will be a date with the regular season champion, undefeated and nationally-ranked #1 Drury Lady Panthers at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday night.
 
The Bulldogs went toe-to-toe with Drury back on February 2 in Springfield, pushing the Lady Panthers to their second closest game of the season at 72-66. Drury won their first round game after a late surge by #8 McKendree 87-79.
 
 
 
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