FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The Fairfield University Women's Basketball team will travel to fellow Jesuit institution Boston College in the AJCU Jesuit Basketball Spotlight on Sunday at 1pm. The contest will be streamed live on the ACC Network Extra.
The Stags will have plenty of momentum entering the contest as they come off their best half of basketball this season. The Stags set a season-high 44 points in the second half while allowing 25 UMass Lowell points, tying the fewest in any half for an opponent this season. This success allowed Fairfield to comeback from a 10-point third quarter deficit to get the win.
The play was a statement for the Stags after Head Coach
Joe Frager the team to "show him his heart" as the team left the huddle to begin the half. Fairfield had allowed 25 River Hawk points in the second quarter as the visitors brought an eight-point lead into halftime.
The Stags also showed a more up-tempo flow in the second half and tallied 16 fast break points in the game. Fairfield had entered the game averaging 4.8 fast break points per game, with a season-high seven of those coming in the season opener against Richmond.
Sam Kramer was the orchestrator of the up-tempo flow with four of her career-high seven assists coming in the second half.
Samantha Cooper also set a new career-high with 24 points, 16 of those coming in the second half.
The game in Chesnut Hill, Mass., will also feature a homecoming for freshman
Jordan Frye who is from the area and used to attend games at the Conte Forum as a season ticket holder.
Boston College will return home after dropping both games of their road trip featuring stops at Boston University and Columbia. Freshman Sydney Lowery is the team's leading scorer with 12.6 points per game while Milan Bolden-Morris is right behind her contributing 12.4 points per contest. Sophomore Georgia Pineau is the team leader in the post, posting a team-high 8.8 rebounds per game. She has been successful on over 45 percent of her shots and is coming off a career-high 22 points in the loss at Columbia.
The Stags will return home to host Villanova on Wednesday at 7pm on the George Bisacca Court at Alumni Hall.
