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Taylor Thompson - 2025 at GVSU - GLIAC Tournament
Claire Clinger
Taylor Thompson notched 12 points (6-of-10 FG), six rebounds, one assist, one block, and a steal.
54
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 19-11,13-7 GLIAC
78
Winner Grand Valley St. GVSU 31-2,19-1 GLIAC
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne
19-11,13-7 GLIAC
54
Final
78
Grand Valley St. GVSU
31-2,19-1 GLIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 15 7 14 18 54
Grand Valley St. GVSU 15 23 21 19 78

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Cooper Weidenthaler, Sports Communications Specialist

No. 2 Lakers Stop Women's Basketball in GLIAC Semifinals; Warriors Await Selection Sunday

GVSU stole the game's momentum with 23 points to WSU's seven in the second quarter.

ALLENDALE, Mich. -- The fourth-seeded Wayne State University women's basketball team (19-11 overall) fell to second-ranked and top-seeded Grand Valley State (31-2 overall) on Saturday afternoon in the GLIAC Tournament semifinals.  The Warriors were defeated by a score of 78-54 and now await their fate in Sunday night's NCAA Selection Show, which begins at 10:30 p.m.

HOW IT HAPPENED
FIRST QUARTER
Wayne State couldn't have asked for a better start scoring the game's first seven points, all of which belonged to Shea Tripp (Jackson, Mich. / Michigan Center).  Tripp hit a pair of layups before cashing a three-pointer from straight on.

Grand Valley State countered with a 6-0 run of its own and cut the margin to one at 7-6.  The Warriors took it in stride though notching the ensuing six points, including four by Taylor Thompson (Grand Blanc, Mich.) and two more from Tripp, to lead by seven again (13-6).

With 3:36 to play from that point until the final first-half buzzer, the Lakers outscored their opponent 9-2 to even the game up at 15-15 through 10 minutes of play.

SECOND QUARTER
Grand Valley State outscored Wayne State 23-7 in the second quarter while shooting 7-of-17 (41.2 percent) from the field to the Warriors' 3-of-10 (30 percent).  Four of those seven Laker makes came from behind the arc as the home team's advantage was as large as 18 (38-20) before the halftime score of 38-22.

WSU turned the ball over 17 times in the first 20 minutes leading to 14 GVSU points.  Grand Valley State gave the ball away just five times resulting in two Wayne State points.

THIRD QUARTER
Thompson scored the third period's first bucket with a driving layup 17 seconds in, but Grand Valley State proceeded to score 12 of the next 14 points.  That outburst stretched the home team's lead to 24, 50-26 at the 5:35 juncture.

Thompson then reached double-figure points (10) with a hook shot and Alyssa Leister (St. Louis, Mich. / Alma) broke into the scoring column thanks to a triple from the right wing.  At that point, the margin had slimmed to 19, 50-31.

The scoring was much more balanced the rest of the quarter, 9-5 in favor of the hosts.  GVSU's advantage was 23 (59-36) through 30 minutes of action.

FOURTH QUARTER
Grand Valley State won the quarter 19-18 and was ahead by as many as 26 on six occasions, the last being 78-52.

TEAM STATS
Grand Valley State attempted 28 more field goals than Wayne State including 30-of-72 (41.7 percent) to 21-of-44 (47.7 percent).  The Warriors turned the ball over a season-high 28 times, which led to 26 points for the Lakers on the other side.  WSU's three highest single-game turnover totals of the season each came against GVSU.  Grand Valley State won the rebounding battle by just five (36-31), but carried an 18-7 advantage on the offensive glass.

LEADING THE WARRIORS
Two Warriors scored in double-figures, Tripp with 22 on 9-of-11 shooting and Thompson with 12 on a 6-of-10 showing.  Thompson also came down with six rebounds while Leister dished out three assists.  Defensively, Koko Sylvester (Toledo, Ohio / Start) blocked a pair of shot attempts and Tripp tallied a pair of steals.

LEADING THE LAKERS
Nicole Kamin paced all scorers with 24 points including four makes in five looks from long range.  Her teammate Paige Vanstee was the other Laker in double-figures with 10 in just 16 minutes played.  Kamin and Rylie Bisballe each secured six boards while R. Bisballe accounted for four dimes.  On the other side of the floor, Kamin registered a pair of blocks to go with five takeaways.

UP NEXT
As mentioned above, Wayne State will see if its qualified for the NCAA Tournament when the 64-team field is revealed on Sunday night at 10:30 p.m. eastern time.  The Warriors were seeded sixth in the Midwest Region for the most-recent rankings on Wednesday and the top eight will play in the regional.

 
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