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Keimari Rimmer
69
Winner UIC UIC 1-3,0-0 MVC
66
NIU NIU 3-3,0-0 MAC
Winner
UIC UIC
1-3,0-0 MVC
69
Final
66
NIU NIU
3-3,0-0 MAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
UIC UIC 10 16 23 20 69
NIU NIU 17 7 19 23 66

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Fourth-Quarter Surge Propels Flames Past Northern Illinois, 69-66

Jalysa Stokes scores game-high 17 points in her UIC debut as Flames earn first win of the season.

DeKALB, Ill. (Nov. 27, 2024) — Senior guard Jalysa Stokes (Joliet, Ill./Joliet Central/UMSL) scored a game-high 17 points on 6-of-12 shooting (4-of-6 from three-point range) to pace three UIC players in double figures as the Flames picked up their initial win of the 2024-25 season with a 69-66 victory at Northern Illinois on Wednesday night inside the NIU Convocation Center in DeKalb, Ill.

Senior guard/forward Makiyah Williams (Chicago, Ill./Trinity/Marquette) added 15 points, while graduate student guard Keimari Rimmer (Chicago, Ill./Proviso East/DePaul) turned in a well-balanced line with 13 points, seven rebounds, five assists and two blocks. Playing on her birthday, senior guard Sandra Frau-Garcia (Pego, Spain/Casper College) dished out a game-high seven assists, including a critical dime to senior forward Ky Dempsey-Toney (Franklin, N.J./Franklin) that put the Flames ahead for good just past the midpoint of the fourth quarter, followed by an even-more valuable old-fashioned three-point play with 4:04 left. Those twin plays were the highlights in a game-turning 8-0 run for UIC, which subsequently went 6-of-7 at the foul line in the final 2:13 to secure the win.

The full box score and play-by-play recap from Wednesday's win at Northern Illinois can be found here.
 

COACH'S COMMENTS


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BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
  • UIC improves to 21-25 all-time against Northern Illinois and earns its seventh consecutive win over the Huskies.
  • All four UIC games this season have been decided by 11 points or less, including the last three by a combined total of 10 points (three, four and three points).
  • Stokes was making her first appearance in a UIC uniform on Wednesday night. The transfer from Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) finished two made three-pointers shy of her career (6 vs. UI-Springfield on Jan. 21, 2023).
  • Rimmer posted season highs for points (13), rebounds (7), assists (5) and blocks (2), finishing one off her career high for assists (6 at Northwestern on Nov. 9, 2023) and tying her career high for blocks (twice before, last vs. Evansville on Feb. 9, 2024).
  • Frau-Garcia handed out a season-high seven assists.
  • Williams turned in her second double-figure scoring game of the season (25 vs. Green Bay on Nov. 13 at Credit Union 1 Arena).

UP NEXT
UIC heads to Minneapolis Sunday for a noon (CT) matchup at St. Thomas. The game will be televised live on ESPN+.

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