DE PERE – Britta Petersen (Luck) scored 23 points and helped the UW-Stevens Point women’s basketball team use a second half surge to advance to the second round of the NCAA Division III women’s basketball tournament with a 86-64 victory over University of Minnesota Morris on Friday evening.
The Pointers started off the game with a [...]

DE PERE – St. Norbert College pulled off another NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament stunner with a 78-67 first-round win over 12th-ranked Calvin College at Schuldes Sports Center.
It’s the third-straight NCAA appearance the Green Knights have beaten a team ranked in the D3hoops.com Top 25. St. Norbert beat fifth-ranked Carleton in 2003’s second round, [...]

Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – The Skidmore College women’s basketball team battled back from 12 points down in the final 2:45, but the Thoroughbreds came up just short, falling to Rensselaer in the Liberty League Championship, 70-67 in front of a standing room only crowd at the Sports and Recreation Center.
Skidmore falls to 21-5 overall, while [...]

Melissa Beyruti was so quiet when she first arrived at Kean University that her basketball coach, Michele Sharp, made her stop by her office just to see if Beyruti was doing all right. Sharp said the visits came to be known as “Melissa meetings.”
Beyruti ended Tuesday’s game with 397 3-pointers in her collegiate career, or [...]

Annie Oakley earned her sharpshooter reputation more than 100 years ago with her ability to shoot a dime thrown in the air from a distance of 90 feet.
Melissa Beyruti of Kean University is about to gain her own slice of fame for her expertise in shooting a basketball through a rim from a distance of [...]

They can change the name of the tournament, but they can’t change the result.
The University of Rochester women’s basketball team used incredibly balanced scoring to capture the Wendy’s College Classic — formerly the JPMorgan Chase Tournament — for a record fifth straight time on Saturday night at the UR Palestra.
Jessica Mastronardi and Kate Agan each [...]

The Hope College women’s basketball shifted Geers against Saint Mary’s College and ran away with a 91-72 win over the Belles Wednesday.
Reserve guard Lauren Geers scored a team-high 16 points and didn’t miss a shot for the Flying Dutch, ranked No. 6 in the NCAA Division III coaches poll.
Geers keyed a Hope bench that outscored [...]

When All-MIAC post Danielle Frank decided to transfer from St. Benedict to Wisconsin-La Crosse this past offseason, it left a big hole in the lineup — literally.
After all, at 6-foot-4, Frank was one of the taller players in the MIAC and that height advantage helped her average 9.5 rebounds per game last season while blocking [...]

Christina Myers has become a key part of why the Denison women’s basketball is 8-1 this season.
To get there, the former Watkins Memorial High School standout transformed herself in the offseason. Putting in more work than she ever had, Myers now is in the best shape of her career.
“She got herself in shape. That’s what [...]

Junior Shaina Kaiser (Ostrander, Ohio/Buckeye Valley) tallied four points in the final eight seconds to lift the Denison University women’s basketball team to a 72-69 victory over Hanover College on Tuesday afternoon on the second day of the Smokey Ballenger Classic hosted by Otterbein College.
After leading for most of the opening 28 minutes, the Panthers [...]