HAMDEN, CT – The Manhattan Jaspers women's basketball team (12-13, 6-10 MAAC) fell to the Quinnipiac Bobcats (22-3, 14-2 MAAC) by a score of 60-40 inside M&T Bank Arena on Saturday afternoon.
The loss puts Manhattan tied for the ninth spot in the MAAC table with its next opponent, Canisius, just two and a half weeks out of the 2025 Hercules Tire MAAC Basketball Championships in Atlantic City.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- After Quinnipiac's Anna Foley opened the scoring, graduate forward Ines Gimenez Monserrat tied the game up with a bucket underneath on a second-chance attempt after capturing her own rebound following the initial miss.
- Senior guard Nitzan Amar countered with a trey after the Bobcats went in front from distance.
- Sophomore guard Tegan Young, who found Kristina Juric underneath, broke up a seven-to-none run for Quinnipiac.
- The Jaspers narrowed its deficit more with junior guard Brianna Davis getting on the board with her first points from distance.
- Manhattan went in front to open the second quarter with Amar's second three-pointer and give the Jaspers its first lead of the game.
- Davis sank a key jump shot to break up a 21-5 run, which spanned for roughly ten minutes back into the second quarter.
- Sophomore guard Tegan Young temporarily stopped the pressure from the Bobcats with her fourth and fifth points of the game to narrow the deficit ever so slightly.
- Later in the fourth quarter, Davis continued her comeback tour for the Jaspers, scoring a bucket and drawing a foul to propel her personal point total to double-digits on the afternoon.
STATS AND NOTES
- Junior guard Brianna Davis led all Jaspers with 11 points on the afternoon. The Queens College transfer converted two-of-three from the charity stripe and grabbed three rebounds and two steals in 22 minutes.
- Senior guard Nitzan Amar converted three-of-10 from the floor, with two coming from long distance. The Israeli native also grabbed eight rebounds in 37 minutes on the floor.
- Senior forward Petra Juric continued right where she left off on Thursday on the defensive end at Quinnipiac, with a game-high ten rebounds and four steals in 37 minutes of play.
- Manhattan logged 13 bench points compared to seven for Quinnipiac. The Jaspers added eight steals to the ledger instead of the Bobcats' five.
NEXT UP:
Manhattan returns home for its penultimate home game of the regular season as the Jaspers welcome the Golden Griffins of Canisius University to Draddy Gymnasium on Thursday, February 27, for a 7 p.m. opening tip. The contest can be viewed on ESPN+ with a paid subscription.
