Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell University
Brown
11/7/2026 5:33:00 PM | Women's Basketball
PROVIDENCE, RI — Despite cutting Brown's lead to eight with five minutes left in the game, Bucknell women's basketball fell to the Bears on the road 73-61. A seven-point run in the second quarter that turned into a 10-point lead at half proved to be the difference maker in the game as Bucknell was only out-scored by two in the first and one in the fourth, while out-scoring the Bears by one in the third.
Elana Weisman and Alaina Dadzie led the Bison in scoring with 12 points each. The 12-point game serves as a career high for Dadzie along with her 15 minutes played. She also found her first career bucket, shot 5-for-8 from the field and was one-for-two from three in the game. The freshman also notched one rebound in the game. Weisman earned 12 points off of a 4-for-11 shooting day from the field going 4-for-5 from the free-throw line and 0-for-3 from three. Isabella Casey followed closely behind the top scorers with 10 points on 5-of-10 shooting from the field.
The Bison struggled from three going 3-for-24 overall for a 12.5 percentage from behind the line which aided in Bucknell not being able to come back from its deficit. The Bison shot 39.3 percent from the field and 66.7 percent from the free-throw line. Brown out-paced Bucknell in all shooting categories as it was 40 percent from the field, 38.1 percent from three and 82.9 percent from the free-throw line with a 29-for-35 statline.
Reese Zemitis led the team in rebounds with six despite struggling to score with just four points. She also notched two assists and one steal. Tessa Liggio, who also struggled in scoring with five points on the afternoon, led the team in assists with five. Anna Kunzwiler led Bucknell in steals with three as she also put up five points, three rebounds and an assist.
The Bison won the turnover battle as they only had nine to Brown's 19, but were only able to find 25 points off of the 19 turnovers whereas Brown was more efficient finding 13 points off of Bucknell's nine turnovers.
The Bison also won the battle in the paint, out-scoring Brown 34-18 and recorded nine steals to Brown's four. Brown however, won the second chance points battle 15-4, the fast-break battle 17-2 and saw more points off the bench with 41 to Bucknell's 25.
Bucknell opened the game with back-to-back points from Weisman off of free-throws and a layup to give it a 4-0 lead. Brown broke up the lead with a three-pointer before Bucknell found a 6-0 run with two buckets from Casey and one from Zemitis to make it 10-4. The Bears then found a 9-0 run to take a two-point lead over Bucknell with just under four minutes left in the first quarter. Mariah Hardy broke up the Brown scoring with a layup and then the teams traded buckets for the rest of the quarter, with Ella Kreuzer and Kaila Richards each finding their first of the game for the Bison. Brown ended up holding onto its two point lead with a 17-15 advantage at the end of the first quarter.
Brown opened the second with a jumper from Witherspoon, before Bucknell found its first three pointer of the day off the hands of Anna Kunzwiler. Back and forth play ensued for the next couple of minutes with Bucknell trailing by just one point before Brown found its second big run of the day and notched seven straight to take a 28-20 lead with just over five minutes left to play in the half. Richards then found a layup to break up the Bears scoring attack, but Brown answered with two made free-throws to hold its lead. Dadzie checked in for the Bison and found her career-first points as a Bison with a nice layup that she then followed up with another to close the gap to six, but the Bears then out-scored Bucknell 8-2 in the remainder of the quarter, extending their lead to A 40-28 scoreline at the half.
The first minute and a half of the third went scoreless, with both teams missing offensive opportunities until Weisman broke the scoring drought with a free-throw that began a 5-0 Bison run. After Bucknell brought the game within seven, Brown found yet another big run, scoring nine unanswered points and extending its lead to 15. Hardy made a layup and Richards made a free-throw to try to eat into the Bison's deficit, but the remainder of the quarter went back-to-back with Brown coming out of the third quarter up 52-41.
Adams-Lopez opened the final ten minutes of play with a three pointer, but Liggio answered with a layup on her first points of the game. A minute later, Adams-Lopez made a free-throw and then Liggio and Dadzie each found three points, Liggio's on an and-one play and Dadzie's from a deep shot to cut the deficit to seven with seven minutes left to play. Almost two scoreless minutes later, Brown's Ofunrein found points on three free-throws before Dadzie found a bucket. Young then hit a three for Brown to extend its lead and after some back and forth play, the Bears were up 67-54 with just a couple minutes to go. The Bison came up with a 5-0 run late in the game, but it wouldn't be enough as Brown would end the game with a bunch of free-throws and take home a 73-61 victory.
The Bison moved to 0-2 with the loss, but will head back to Lewisburg to host its home opener against Fordham in its first mid-week game of the season on Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 6 p.m.
