Women's Basketball 11/23/2016 12:00:00 AM

Balanced Attack Leads Spartans over Warren Wilson

Box Score

Spartanburg, S.C. – The USC Upstate women's basketball team had four players finish in double figures as the Spartans defeated Warren Wilson 91-53 on Wednesday night at the Hodge Center.

Upstate evens its record at 3-3 while Warren Wilson drops to 4-4.

DeNisha Swain scored a career-best 15 points while dishing out a career-high six assists. Riley Popplewell tied a career-high with 15 points, matching a 15-point output against Illinois on Sunday. Bailey Wensler finished with a career-high 14 points and was a career-best 4-for-6 from behind the 3-point line. Raven Jefferson scored 11 points to finish in double figures for the 31^st time in her career. Jefferson and Popplewell just missed out on a double-double as they each pulled down nine rebounds.

Amber Godfrey led the Owls with 15 points, followed by Danasia Dumas and Jada McCrimmon with 12 points each.

Game Breakdown

Warren Wilson opened the game on a 14-4 run as they made four 3-pointers in the first 4:36 of the contest. The Owls had their largest lead of the game, 16-5, following a Godfrey jumper with 3:32 to play and led 18-10 after the opening 10 minutes.
An Allison church jumper at the 5:47 mark of the second quarter gave the Owls a 23-17 lead. Upstate would close the period on a 20-0 run capped by Breanna Jefferson's three-point play to lead 37-23 at halftime. Upstate outscored Warren Wilson 27-5 in the quarter and scored 21 points off of 14 Owl turnovers.
McCrimmon brought the Owls to within 11, 37-26, on a 3-pointer 16 seconds into the third quarter. A Wensler 3-pointer with 4:42 to go gave the Spartans a 58-31 lead, their largest of the quarter.
Warren Wilson would get no closer than 24 points in the fourth quarter as Upstate scored a game-high 28 points in the frame.

By the Numbers

Upstate scored 81 of its 91 points in the final three quarters.
The Spartans outrebounded the Owls 58-31
Upstate outscored Warren Wilson 42-6 in points in the paint and 18-0 on fast break points.
Led by Swain and Wensler, the Upstate bench scored 53 points compared to seven points by the Warren Wilson reserves.
Warren Wilson committed 26 turnovers compared to 17 by Upstate. Upstate scored 37 points off of turnovers while the Owls scored 13.

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