Black Knights Capture 71-56 Win Against Dartmouth

Wednesday, November 29

West Point, NY

7 PM

Army West Point

5-2

Dartmouth

4-1

Dartmouth

ARMY

Black Knights Capture 71-56 Win Against Dartmouth

November 29, 2017 | Women's Basketball

Box Score

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Behind a pair of noteworthy scoring performances by Libby Tacka and Madison Hovren, the Army West Point women's basketball team cruised to a 71-56 victory over Dartmouth on Wednesday night at Christl Arena.

Hovren led the way with her fifth consecutive double-double, putting in a season-high 24 points on 11-of-14 shooting to go along with 11 boards. Tacka finished the game against Dartmouth (4-1) with 15 points and five rebounds, while Janae McNeal added nine in the scoring column.

Army dominated the painted area, outscoring the Big Green, 44-14, down low. The Black Knights also won the turnover battle and capitalized off of Dartmouth's mishaps, putting in 23 points off of the Big Green's 20 turnovers.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

The Black Knights improved to 4-0 at Christl Arena this season.
Hovren posted her sixth double-double of the season and 22nd of her career.
The junior put up her third 20-point performance of the season and 15th of her career.
Hovren's 11 made shots was the most by the junior in a single game since Jan. 11, 2017 against Colgate.
She eclipsed the 800-point mark for her career and now has 814 career points.
Tacka's 15 points was a career-high.
Army shot 50 percent from the field in the opening half.
Junior captain Jess Lewis appeared in a game for the first time since Jan. 28, 2017 and dished out an assist.
Twenty four of Army's 34 second-half points came from inside the paint.
All 16 Cadets saw action in the same game for the first time this season.
Julia Gibbs scored the first points of her sophomore campaign.

HOW IT HAPPENED

After Dartmouth got on the board first with a 3-pointer by Andi Norman, the Black Knights responded immediately with an 11-0 run that featured four points by Tacka. It was an efficient quarter offensively for Army as the team connected on six of its 12 shots and led 16-11.
The second quarter was a back-and-forth battle between the two squads as both sides shot the ball over 50 percent from the floor. Army saw its slim five-point advantage vanquish though as the Big Green climbed back and took the lead, 22-21, with 6:31 left to play in the half.
The Black Knights looked inside for an answer and scored 13 of their next 16 points from down low to retake the lead, 33-28. After Dartmouth brought it back to within two with another three by Norman, Army closed out the half with four unanswered points and led 37-31 heading into the break.
It was a rough start to the new half as the Big Green put in eight unanswered points, after a pair of Army scores, to trim the deficit to two, 41-39. However, for the third straight outing, Army did most of its damage in the third frame and behind a 5-for-5 shooting effort by Hovren, the Black Knights outscored Dartmouth 14-2 the rest of the way and grabbed a 14-point advantage.
A lot of the success in the quarter came from forcing seven Dartmouth turnovers and scoring nine points off of the miscues.
With a favorable lead heading into the fourth, Army brought the advantage to over 20 points before ultimately sealing the 71-56 win over the Big Green.

UP NEXT
The Black Knights will travel to Colorado to face off against service-academy rival Air Force for a 3 p.m. ET game.