{"id":71511,"date":"2022-02-14T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=71511"},"modified":"2022-02-15T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:46:33","slug":"first-place-toledo-trounces-bowling-green-80-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_14_2022\/first-place-toledo-trounces-bowling-green-80-51","title":{"rendered":"First-Place Toledo Trounces Bowling Green, 80-51"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Toledo women’s basketball team dismantled Bowling Green in an 80-51 win before a crowd of 5,029\u00a0at Savage Arena on Saturday. Toledo outscored the Falcons in all four quarters and were never seriously challenged.<\/p>\n

The Rockets’ (19-4, 13-1 MAC) 29-point win over the Falcons (11-10, 6-6 MAC) tied for their largest-ever margin of victory in the Battle of I-75 rivalry, matching an 81-52 win on Jan. 30, 2002. This also marks the first time Toledo has beaten Bowling Green twice in the same season since 2018-19.<\/p>\n

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Saturday’s victory marked the first time Toledo has beaten Bowling Green twice in the same season since 2018-19.<\/p><\/div>\n

By virtue of Saturday’s win and Buffalo’s (16-8, 10-4 MAC) 69-64 loss to Northern Illinois, first-place Toledo now holds a three-game lead over the Bulls in the Mid-American Conference standings.<\/p>\n

“I’m really proud of how our players played today, especially defensively,” head coach\u00a0Tricia Cullop\u00a0said. “To hold a great three-point shooting team like Bowling Green to just two made threes is outstanding. I thought that was a big key to the game. I thought we let them get to the free throw line too many times in the first half, but we did a better job in the second half.<\/p>\n

“They’re a great team. I have a lot of respect for Robyn and what she does for their program.<\/p>\n

“This is a great rivalry,” Cullop said. “Obviously last year we were on the other end of it, and our players really wanted to get a sweep this year. I’m proud of them, but in the grand scheme of things this is one game and pretty soon we’re going to face a team that beat us, and we need to get ready for that.”<\/p>\n

Junior\u00a0Quinesha Lockett\u00a0scored a game-high 24 points, her 12th\u00a0game with at least 20 points this season, and recorded a career-best five steals. Saturday was her third straight game with 20 points, and her 15 points in the first half helped the Rockets build an early lead they never relinquished.<\/p>\n

“Quinesha is special,” Cullop said. “She’s not a one-dimensional player. She can play offense and defense, she can shoot threes and drive. I think her court vision has really improved this year; her understanding of what the defense is doing and getting the ball in the hands of who needs it. I think she’s really blossomed this year, but we also have a lot more around her.”<\/p>\n

Junior\u00a0Sophia Wiard\u00a0(16 points) and freshman\u00a0Jessica Cook\u00a0(12 points) also cracked double figures in scoring.<\/p>\n

Toledo won the rebounding battle against BGSU, 45-32, with its top contributors being junior Hannah Noveroske (10 rebounds), Cook (9 rebounds), and sophomore Sammi Mikonowicz (six rebounds).<\/p>\n

The Rockets held the Falcons to 28.0 percent shooting (14-for-50) and did not allow a single player to score in double figures, the first time they’ve held all opposing players to single-digit scoring since March 6, 2017 vs. Akron. BGSU’s leading scorer was Zoe Miller, who scored nine points off the bench.<\/p>\n

Following Saturday’s game, Toledo will play three of the next four on the road, beginning with a road test at Ohio on Wednesday, Feb. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

Saturday’s victory at Savage Arena on Saturday tied the team’s highest margin of victory in the history of the rivalry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":71512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71514,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71511\/revisions\/71514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}