TEMPE, Ariz. – Jade Loville scored a game-high 19 points and Mael Gilles (12 rebounds) and Imogen Greenslade (career-high 11 rebounds) combined for 23 rebounds – part of a 61-18 advantage in rebounding – in the Sun Devil women's basketball team's 91-54 win over Harvard on the second and final day of the ASU Classic.
Gilles (14 points, 12 rebounds) secured her second double-double of the season, joining Loville, Ayzhiana Basallo (14 points) and Jayde Van Hyfte (10 points) in leading the Sun Devils (5-4) to their third straight win.
Gabriela Bosquez (nine points) and Katelyn Levings (eight points, five rebounds) combined for an additional 17 points.
Gilles (three offensive rebounds), who tied her career high in assists (five) for the second time in three games to lead ASU on Sunday, Greenslade (six points, team-high six offensive rebounds) and Van Hyfte (four offensive rebounds), accounted for 13 of ASU's 23 offensive boards. By game's end, ASU's dominance on the offensive glass added up to a 25-8 advantage in second chance points.
"Now that is the rebounding effort I have been waiting for. That was awesome," ASU head coach Charli Turner Thorne said. "I thought we worked hard. I thought it was a great team win. We put everything together today, with shot selection, taking pretty good care of the ball, running, and then just not allowing them to be comfortable. They are definitely a team that can shoot the ball. We knew they were tired, and we decided to get after them often – and we did."
The Sun Devils shot a season-high 49 percent and nearly matched that percentage from beyond the arc where they made 47 percent (9-19) of their attempts. Gilles, Taya Hanson, and Levings tied for the team lead with two triples apiece.
ASU also scored nearly a quarter of its points from the foul line where it knocked down 82 percent (22-27) of its free throws on Sunday.
Defensively, the Sun Devils held the opposition below 30 percent from the floor and below 10 percent from 3-point range for the second consecutive game.
Leading 45-24 at the half, the Sun Devils wasted no time putting the game away, outscoring Harvard (3-6) 15-0 to start the third quarter and take a 60-24 lead after Basallo's bucket with 3:35 remaining.
Up next for the Sun Devils is a trip to Omaha, Neb., to face Creighton on Sunday (1 p.m. CST/12 p.m. MST). The game can be seen for a fee via FloSports and can also be heard on 1440 AM KAZG.
Gilles (14 points, 12 rebounds) secured her second double-double of the season, joining Loville, Ayzhiana Basallo (14 points) and Jayde Van Hyfte (10 points) in leading the Sun Devils (5-4) to their third straight win.
Gabriela Bosquez (nine points) and Katelyn Levings (eight points, five rebounds) combined for an additional 17 points.
Gilles (three offensive rebounds), who tied her career high in assists (five) for the second time in three games to lead ASU on Sunday, Greenslade (six points, team-high six offensive rebounds) and Van Hyfte (four offensive rebounds), accounted for 13 of ASU's 23 offensive boards. By game's end, ASU's dominance on the offensive glass added up to a 25-8 advantage in second chance points.
"Now that is the rebounding effort I have been waiting for. That was awesome," ASU head coach Charli Turner Thorne said. "I thought we worked hard. I thought it was a great team win. We put everything together today, with shot selection, taking pretty good care of the ball, running, and then just not allowing them to be comfortable. They are definitely a team that can shoot the ball. We knew they were tired, and we decided to get after them often – and we did."
The Sun Devils shot a season-high 49 percent and nearly matched that percentage from beyond the arc where they made 47 percent (9-19) of their attempts. Gilles, Taya Hanson, and Levings tied for the team lead with two triples apiece.
ASU also scored nearly a quarter of its points from the foul line where it knocked down 82 percent (22-27) of its free throws on Sunday.
Defensively, the Sun Devils held the opposition below 30 percent from the floor and below 10 percent from 3-point range for the second consecutive game.
Leading 45-24 at the half, the Sun Devils wasted no time putting the game away, outscoring Harvard (3-6) 15-0 to start the third quarter and take a 60-24 lead after Basallo's bucket with 3:35 remaining.
Up next for the Sun Devils is a trip to Omaha, Neb., to face Creighton on Sunday (1 p.m. CST/12 p.m. MST). The game can be seen for a fee via FloSports and can also be heard on 1440 AM KAZG.