EVANSVILLE, Ind. (Jan. 30, 2025) – The UIC women's basketball team (7-11, 4-5 MVC) couldn't be stopped Thursday night at Meeks Family Field House, defeating Evansville (5-15, 1-8 MVC) 74-43 in Missouri Valley Conference road play.
Senior
Makiyah Williams (Chicago, Ill./Trinity/Marquette) led all scorers on the court with 19 points, four assists and three rebounds. Seniors
Ky Dempsey-Toney (Franklin, N.J./Franklin) and
Krystyna Ellew (Chicago, Ill./Taft/Wisconsin) each contributed nine points off the bench.
The box score and the play-by-play recap against Evansville can be found
here.
COMMENT FROM HEAD COACH ASHLEEN BRACEY
"Always good to win on the road, huge team win. Most proud of our defensive effort, held them to 25% scoring and only 12 points in the first half. I think when you play in a league as tough as ours, I think if you are willing to play that level of defense and that intensity, I think you are going to put yourself in a lot of positions to be successful. We are hoping to carry that down the road to Indiana State."
SOCIAL MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
- Tonight's win is UIC's largest winning margin (29 points) against an MVC opponent since joining The Valley. The win surpasses UIC's road victory (64-38) over Bradley on Feb. 25, 2023.
- Williams finished the game shooting 80 percent from the field, sinking eight of her shots on 10 attempts in just 23 minutes of play.
- Graduate student Kristian Young (Indianapolis, Ind./Lawrence North) collected six assists, and is now 12 assists away from surpassing UIC alumni Terri Bender (2012-17) as the all-time leader in program history in career assists.
- The Flames bench continue to make a major contribution in the win with 35 points coming from the reserves. UIC's bench remains one of the top benches in the nation, ranking third in points per game (33.1 PPG).
UP NEXT
UIC finishes out this two-game road trip in Terre Haute, Ind. to face off against Indiana State (3-17, 1-8 MVC) in a 1 p.m. (CT) tip-off. The game will be available to stream on ESPN+ with live stats on
UICFlames.com.
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Fans that are interested to learn more about our 2024-25 UIC's men and women basketball teams are encouraged to view our digital yearbook, available now on our
website.
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