{"id":72306,"date":"2022-03-22T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=72306"},"modified":"2022-03-24T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:54:20","slug":"hot-shooting-rockets-cruise-past-kent-state-79-59-in-wnit-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_22_2022\/hot-shooting-rockets-cruise-past-kent-state-79-59-in-wnit-action","title":{"rendered":"Hot-Shooting Rockets Cruise Past Kent State, 79-59, in WNIT Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_72307\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/UToledo-Beats-Dayton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72307\" class=\"wp-image-72307\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/UToledo-Beats-Dayton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/UToledo-Beats-Dayton.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/UToledo-Beats-Dayton-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-72307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toledo shot 55.8 percent from the floor to cruise to a 79-59 win over Kent State in the second round of the WNIT at Savage Arena on Monday night.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Toledo women&#8217;s basketball team shot a scintillating 55.8 percent from the floor to cruise to a 79-59 win over Kent State in the second round of the WNIT\u00a0at Savage Arena on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Toledo advances to the third round of the WNIT and will play at Marquette (23-10) on Thursday, March 24, at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets (28-5) outscored the Golden Flashes (19-12) 20-9 in the second quarter to take a 15-point lead into halftime and didn&#8217;t look back. Kent&#8217;s last gasp came in the form of a 12-3 run to end the third quarter that cut Toledo&#8217;s lead to 10 points, 57-47. UToledo answered with 11 straight points to open the fourth quarter that all but sealed the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Toledo advances into the third round of the WNIT for the first time since the 2012-13 season and is now one win away from tying the program record for wins in a season. The 2010-11 and 2012-13 teams both won 29 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really proud of our players, we beat a really good team tonight,&#8221; head coach\u00a0Tricia Cullop\u00a0said. &#8220;I&#8217;m proud of our defensive effort tonight and the way we slowed down one of the best shooting teams in our league. When Kent State cut the lead to 10 points at the end of the third quarter, things could have gotten a little dicey. But I think you saw the composure that this team has showed all season. They&#8217;re not afraid and they won&#8217;t back down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny time we take care of the basketball, make our free throws and outrebound the opponent we&#8217;ve been very successful, and we did that tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Junior\u00a0Quinesha Lockett\u00a0led the way offensively with a game-high 25 points on 8-of-13 shooting. Nineteen of her 25 points came in the second half.\u00a0Lockett now has 510 field goal attempts this season, breaking the previous single-season school record of 508 set by Kim Knuth in 1998-99.<\/p>\n<p>Three Rockets joined Lockett in double figures, including junior\u00a0Hannah Noveroske, who contributed 13 points and four blocks off the bench. Junior\u00a0Sophia Wiard\u00a0tallied 12 points, seven assists and six rebounds while senior\u00a0Jayda Jansen\u00a0added 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s game marked the sixth time this season that Toledo shot at least 50 percent from the floor. The Rockets connected on 29-of-52 shots and held the Golden Flashes to 35.5 percent shooting (22-for-62).<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Thall led Kent with 11 points and both Nila Blackford and Katie Shumate contributed 10 points each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_22_2022\/hot-shooting-rockets-cruise-past-kent-state-79-59-in-wnit-action\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/UToledo-Beats-Dayton-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Toledo advances to the third round of the WNIT and will play at Marquette (23-10) at 8 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":72307,"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\/72306"}],"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=72306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72310,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72306\/revisions\/72310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}