Black Knights Fall in High-Scoring Affair

Wednesday, February 27

Hamilton, NY

8:30 PM

Army West Point

11-16

Colgate

11-15

Army West Point

Colgate

Army huddles during its game against Holy Cross on Feb. 23, 2019.

Black Knights Fall in High-Scoring Affair

February 27, 2019 | Women's Basketball

Box Score

HAMILTON, N.Y. - Despite career games from a trio of Black Knights, the Army West Point women's basketball team dropped an 85-80 decision at Colgate on Wednesday night in Patriot League action.

With the loss, the Black Knights remain in the seventh spot in the Patriot League standings with two games to go in the regular season. Army sits at 6-10 in league play.

Madison Hovren tied a career high with 35 points and was efficient as she was 13-of-18 from the floor and 9-of-12 from the charity stripe in the loss. She also recorded a double-double with 14 rebounds. Kate Murray had her best game of the season with 24 points and was 10-of-22 from the field and went 3-of-9 from distance with eight rebounds and two assists. Jess Lewis narrowly missed a triple-double with 11 points, nine assists and eight rebounds and only turned it over twice while play the entire game.

The Raiders saw three players score in double figures, including a career outing for Tegan Graham, who finished with 24 points and was 4-of-5 from beyond-the-arc in the win. Rachel Thompson, who was held scoreless in the first meeting had 15 points, eight assists and five rebounds, while Haley Greer added 16 points for Colgate. The Raiders shot the ball extremely well at 55.6 percent and made nine shot from distance.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

This was the 69th meeting between Army and Colgate with the Black Knights leading 45-24 after tonights game.
Army scored a season-high 80 points.
The Black Knights gave up a season-high 85 points.
Army is now 10-2 when scoring 60 or more points this season.
The 40 points scored in the first half were the most by Army since scoring 43 against Air Force on Nov. 21.
Army had at least three players in double figures for the fifth time this year and twice in the last four games.
The Black Knights are now 3-4 in month of February.
Lewis has now started in 29 straight games dating back to last season, which is a career high.
Lewis continues to climb the all-time single-season assist list with 139 after nine tonight and is now sixth on the list.
Lewis tied a career high with nine assists, which she has done twice this year.
She is now ninth on the career assists list with 261, passing Alex McGuire tonight.
Lewis had a career high in rebounds with eight.
Hovren scored 30 or more points for the third time this year and tied a career high with 35 points, which she posted against Lafayette in 2017.
Hovren reached double-digit scoring for the 26th time this season and 81st time in her career.
She added her 20th double-double of the year and 53rd of her career, adding to her Army record.
She has scored in double digits in 22-straight games, which is a career best.
Hovren recorded 20 or more points in a game for the 11th time this season and 29th time in her career.
She added 14 rebounds tonight to give her 1,047 and she is 96 boards away from tying Katie Macfarlane for most in an Army career.
She had double digit rebounds for the 20th time this year and 56th time in her career.
Murray reached double digits in points for the seventh-straight game and eight of her last nine.
She is averaging 15.3 points per game over her last seven games.
The 10 field goals made by Murray were a career best and the trio of 3-pointers made were a season best as well.
Army outrebounded Colgate by a 44-34 margin and 20 of their 44 rebounds were on the offensive end.
The Black Knights had 21 second chance points to Colgate's five.
The Raiders had a 23-4 advance in bench points.

HOW IT HAPPENED
First Quarter

Army got out to a quick 10-5 advantage in the first couple of minutes, but Colgate tied the game at 10-10 with Summer King hitting a 3-pointer with 8:18 on the clock. Both teams shot the ball very well in the opening minutes.
Neither team had more than a three-point lead following Army's 10-5 lead early on. Colgate had a two-point lead at 22-20 with 2:21 on the clock, but Hovren snuck in on a free throw miss for a put back and then added another layup off a Colgate turnover which helped Army gain a 25-23 advantage at the end of the first quarter.
Hovren had 11 in the first 10 minutes, while Murray added seven points.

Second Quarter

Colgate came out of the break and Mylah Chandler hit a three to give the home team the lead in the first minute of the quarter at 26-25. Lindsey Scamman answered with a layup on the other end to regain the lead for Army.
The teams traded buckets, but Colgate's shots were 3-pointers by Graham as she drained threes on back-to-back possessions and Colgate led 37-32 with 5:18 left in the half.
Army got the lead down to one at 41-40 with Murray sinking a 3-pointer from the left, but Colgate closed out the half with a 6-0 run and had a 47-40 lead at the break.

Third Quarter

The Raiders' advantage ballooned to nine after King hit a jumped in the opening moments of the third. Army, however, was composed and slice the lead to three points with buckets from Hovren and Murray and it was 49-46 with 7:28 on the clock.
Haley Greer put Colgate back up by eight points with seven points over a minute span and then Thompson answered a Hovren layup with two points of her own and with 4:03 on the clock, Colgate led 58-50.
Once again, the Black Knights were not going to make it easy for the Raiders on their home floor as Army finished the quarter on an 8-0 run to tie the game at 58-58 going into the final frame.

Fourth Quarter

Army was able to gain the lead in the fourth and had it up to as much as four points with 5:51 remaining, but the Raiders were too tough to put away.
After Lewis nailed a jumper to give Army a 71-67 lead, Colgate went on an 11-2 run to takeover the lead at 78-73.
Army couldn't get closer than four points after that run and the Raiders closed out the Black Knights for the 85-80 win.

UP NEXT

The Black Knights return to Christl Arena on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. for Senior Day against Boston University. Tickers are still available and the game can also be seen live on the Patriot League Network at PatriotLeague.tv.