Women’s Basketball Return to Winning Ways at UNCW

Wednesday, January 26

Wilmington, N.C.

7 P.M.

University of Delaware

11-5,5-1CAA

UNCW

3-12,0-5CAA

Delaware

UNCW

Jasmine Dickey (Photo Credit: UNCW Athletics)

1/26/2022 9:50:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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WILMINGTON, N.C. – Opening a road slate of playing three games in five days, the University of Delaware women's basketball team captured a 78-69 CAA victory over UNCW (3-12, 0-5 CAA) Wednesday evening inside Trask Coliseum. With the win, the Blue Hens are 11-5 on the season and 5-1 in league play.

"Great team win! It's never easy to come on the road; Coach Barefoot does a phenomenal job with her team," said head coach Natasha Adair. "We challenged our team – coming out of our last game, I wanted us to play harder, I wanted us to play Delaware basketball with energy and effort; I think from start to finish we saw that today. I love the fact that we are sharing the ball and everyone got involved. When you do that, you see the smiles and you see them having fun. It is going to start with us on the defensive end and then we work our way out. Another milestone again tonight for Jasmine Dickey, 1,562 (career points) and counting, Ty Battle her 11th double-double but they don't do this without their teammates. It was great for us to be able to play everybody and sometimes players don't want those minutes. But they don't realize how important and valuable they are because it is experience; it's real minutes. I love the way the starters/veterans cheered for them but that's this team we do it together and we do it as a family. We got this one and we got two more to go on the road but it always starts when you get that victory. I am very proud of our group."

Delaware opened the game's scoring 40 seconds in thanks to Jasmine Dickey knocking down her signature jumper for the early 2-0 lead. Sierra DaCosta responded for UNCW with a three-point play to take the 3-2 advantage at the 8:03 mark. The Blue Hens then used a 17-6 run starting from 5:53 to 25 seconds, to take the 10-point lead, 19-9. Dacosta's jumper made it a single-digit game for the Seahawks with four seconds remaining, 19-11.

With 3:15 showing on the second-quarter clock, Micah Hoggatt knocked down a jumper for UNCW to pull within four, 26-22. Jewel Smalls finished one of Skinner's game-high seven assists by connecting from deep to ignite an 11-2 Delaware run, extending the lead to 13 points, 37-24. DaCosta laid in two for the Seahawks to send the 37-26 game into the break.

Dazia Powell drained a triple for UNCW to trail by eight, 51-43, with 2:21 left in the third period. Dickey, Battle and Skinner were responsible for Delaware's 9-1 spurt to push the lead back up to 16 points, 60-44, with 46 seconds remaining. UNCW closed out the third with four-answered points to be down by 12 points, 60-48.

The Blue Hens saw its lead balloon up to a game-high 26 points, courtesy of Skinner's layup at the 5:31 mark in the fourth quarter. UNCW, refusing to give up, went on a 17-2 run over the remaining 5:14 to settle the 78-69 final.

It was another milestone night for Dickey as she finished with 23 points (10-of-20 FG) to sit fifth in program history with 1,562 career points. She added nine rebounds, three assists, a block and a steal to her stat line. Skinner followed with 20 points (6-of-8 FT), seven assists (tied career-high) and five rebounds. Battle put together a 16-point (7-of-10 FG) and 13-rebound (six offensive) performance to post her 11th double-double of the season.

DaCosta paced UNCW with 23 points (9-of-11 FT) and four rebounds in defeat. Hoggatt chipped in 14 points (6-of-9 FG) and five rebounds while Dazia Powell poured in 10 points (4-of-6 FG) and nabbed two steals off the bench.

Delaware shot 50.8 percent (30-of-59) from the field, 29.4 percent (5-of-17) from beyond the arc and 54.2 percent (13-of-24) from the free-throw line. UNCW connected on 43.9 percent (25-of-57) from the field, 23.1 percent (3-of-13) from three-point territory and 72.7 percent (16-of-22) from the charity stripe. Delaware held the rebound margin advantage (43-26) while scoring 19 second-chance points off 17 offensive rebounds. Delaware outshined UNCW in assists (14-10), blocks (5-2), steals (9-8) and fast break points (19-9). UNCW held the edge in bench points (19-14 ) and points in the paint (40-30) while scoring 23 points off 18 Blue Hen turnovers.

WHAT'S NEXT
The Blue Hens will continue their CAA road slate Friday, Jan. 28 against William & Mary (6-10, 1-4 CAA) inside Kaplan Arena in Williamsburg, Va. at 7 p.m.

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