Women’s basketball: Fourth-quarter rally lifts Gophers past Eastern Illinois

The Gophers ladies’s basketball group overcame an eight-point deficit with an enormous fourth-quarter comeback to beat Japanese Illinois 59-48 on Wednesday afternoon at Williams Area.

Minnesota outscored Japanese Illinois 23-6 within the ultimate interval of the Gophers’ ultimate nonconference recreation of the season.

Alanna Micheaux scored a game-high 14 factors of 6-for-13 taking pictures and added 5 rebounds for Minnesota. Mallory Heyer scored all 10 of her factors within the second half, plus had seven rebounds. She put the Gophers forward for good with a three-point shot with 7:07 left within the recreation.

Minnesota led 27-24 at halftime earlier than Japanese Illinois stole the momentum by outscoring the Gophers 18-9 within the third quarter.

Morgan Litwiller scored 11 factors, and Taris Thornton had 10 for Japanese Illinois.

Minnesota (8-5) made 24 of 66 photographs (36.4 %) from the ground for the sport however was 14 of 29 (48.3 %) within the second half. The Gophers closed out the rebound battle with an 8-3 benefit within the fourth quarter, outrebounding Japanese Illinois (8-3) 41-39 general.

Shimmy Grey-Miller was the Gophers’ performing head coach, filling in for Lindsay Whalen, who was dwelling with an sickness.

Minnesota resumes Massive Ten play with a Dec. 30 recreation at Maryland. The Gophers are 1-1 within the convention, beating Penn State at dwelling on Dec. 3 and dropping at Iowa on Dec. 10.