Western Caro. WCU 3-4,0-0 SoCon

UNC Asheville AVL 3-2,0-0 Big South

Western Caro. WCU

3-4,0-0 SoCon

Final

Nov. 28, 2022

UNC Asheville AVL

3-2,0-0 Big South

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Western Caro. WCU	16	14	11	10	51
UNC Asheville AVL	16	18	18	12	64

Summary
Box Score

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | 11/28/2022 8:46:00 PM | Denise Gideon, Director of Media Relations

Catamounts Fall on the Road at UNC Asheville

Hosts Queens in annual Education Day game Thursday

The Basics
Score: UNC Asheville 64, Western Carolina 51
Records: Western Carolina 3-4; UNCA 3-2
Location: Kimmel Arena – Asheville, N.C.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Western Carolina women's basketball closed out its five-game road swing with a 64-51 loss at UNC Asheville Monday in Kimmel Arena.

Turning Point:
UNC Asheville hit eight three-pointers in the game and the Catamounts were an infirm 2-10 from the free-throw line missing the first eight in the first half. The clincher was the Bulldogs' 9-0 run to open the third quarter, after WCU cut the lead to one, 34-33. The Catamounts could never claw back after UNCA built the 10 point, 43-33 lead, midway through the third.

Individual Leaders

Graduate student Kyla Allison led the Catamounts with 11 points. She also had six rebounds.
Shayane Poirot-Allard just missed scoring in double figures with nine points. She also dished out four assists.
UNCA's McKinley Brooks-Sumpter led all scorers with 16 and was 6-of-8 from the free throw line.

Inside the Box Score

UNCA was 17-of-24 from the free throw line.
After scoring 16 points in the first quarter the Catamounts were tied with the Bulldogs after the first 10 minutes. WCU was outscored 36-25 in the next two quarters.
The Catamounts' attempt to mount a comeback in the four quarter was hampered by a scoring drought of almost four minutes as UNCA went over three minutes without scoring as well.
Western Carolina scored just 10 points in the fourth quarter.
After hitting four three-pointers in the first 20 minutes, Western Carolina hit only one in the second half going 1-for-7.
UNCA won the rebound battle ripping down 40 to the Catamounts' 35. WCU did have 15 offensive boards turning into 13 second-chance points.
Western Carolina shot 28.6 from the field in the third quarter after shooting 40 percent in the second quarter. The Catamounts ended the game at 34.9 percent from the field.
The Catamounts had a season-low nine turnovers in the game.
The score was tied four times and the lead changed three times.
UNC led for almost 24 minutes of the game.

News & Notes

Western Carolina is 2-3 against teams from the Big South with the loss to UNCA.
Sophomore Jacey Justice connected on a career-high two three-pointers.
Allison has scored in double figures in back-to-back games and three of the last five games.
Poirot-Allard played 38 minutes against UNCA. In the last four games, she has played 157 minutes missing a total of three minutes of play in the last four games.
Western Carolina has hit five or more three-pointers in six of the seven games on the year.
The Catamounts are 1-4 over the last five games.
Freshman Reagan Trumm has hit at least one three-pointer in five of seven games.