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Mar. 20—SIOUX CITY, Iowa. — For the third NAIA tournament game in a row, the Dakota Wesleyan University women's basketball team had the lead the whole way.
That meant it was all Tigers on Friday afternoon in the tournament's Round of 16 in the Duer Quadrant, as No. 2-seed DWU cruised past No. 3-seed Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) for a 78-53 victory at the Tyson Events Center.
With the victory, the Tigers improved to 28-6 and are in the final eight of a national tournament for the seventh time in school history. It is DWU's first quarterfinals berth since 2019.
Up next is a matchup between the quadrant's top-two seeds, with No. 1 Bethel (Tenn.) and No. 2 DWU at 6 p.m. Saturday night in the national quarterfinals. Bethel, which like Lindsey Wilson is part of the Mid-South Conference, improved to 28-5 on Friday with a 78-70 win over Lewis-Clark State (Idaho).
The Tigers led 20-4 at the end of the first quarter, powered by a 14-0 run as DWU took LWU apart inside the paint. The Tigers held the Blue Raiders to 1-for-15 shooting in the first 10 minutes of the game, and while it wasn't over, the contest was never on equal footing from that point forward.
"We knew they were a tough team but I'd say we're a pretty tough team," DWU's Rylee Rosenquist said. "We were more physical and worked it to our advantage.
DWU led 47-23 at halftime and the Blue Raiders never got closer than 17 points in the latter stages of the game.
The Tigers' top-three scorers — Emma Yost, Rosenquist and Avery Broughton — combined for 49 of the Tigers' 78 points. Playing down the road from her high school alma mater of Dakota Valley, Rosenquist finished with 17 points, eight assists and seven rebounds. Broughton finished with 16 points and six rebounds, with 16 points from Yost on a 7-for-12 shooting effort from the field. Shalayne Nagel had eight points, 12 rebounds and four assists, while Jaida Young and Maleighya Estes each had seven points apiece.
In a matchup of two of the nation's best assist-to-turnover ratio teams, DWU feasted in that category, finishing with 23 assists on 30 made field goals. The Tigers had eight assists before their first turnover, which came nearly 14 minutes into the game.
The physicality of the game was apparent in the rebounding numbers, where DWU held a 49-43 edge. It included 46 total offensive rebounds, with Lindsey Wilson pulling down 24 and the Tigers snaring 22.
Lindsey Wilson was held by 16 points from its leading scorer Meadow Tisdale but she was kept to four points in the opening half. Saniyah Shelton and Taylor Guess each had 10 points for the Blue Raiders, who end the season at 23-8.
"We had five days to prepare for them and I thought we did a really good job," DWU coach Jason Christensen said. "Our kids listened to the scouting report. We executed the sets that we wanted to run offensively. We did what we wanted to do defensively on Tisdale and Shelton."
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That meant it was all Tigers on Friday afternoon in the tournament's Round of 16 in the Duer Quadrant, as No. 2-seed DWU cruised past No. 3-seed Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) for a 78-53 victory at the Tyson Events Center.
With the victory, the Tigers improved to 28-6 and are in the final eight of a national tournament for the seventh time in school history. It is DWU's first quarterfinals berth since 2019.
Up next is a matchup between the quadrant's top-two seeds, with No. 1 Bethel (Tenn.) and No. 2 DWU at 6 p.m. Saturday night in the national quarterfinals. Bethel, which like Lindsey Wilson is part of the Mid-South Conference, improved to 28-5 on Friday with a 78-70 win over Lewis-Clark State (Idaho).
The Tigers led 20-4 at the end of the first quarter, powered by a 14-0 run as DWU took LWU apart inside the paint. The Tigers held the Blue Raiders to 1-for-15 shooting in the first 10 minutes of the game, and while it wasn't over, the contest was never on equal footing from that point forward.
"We knew they were a tough team but I'd say we're a pretty tough team," DWU's Rylee Rosenquist said. "We were more physical and worked it to our advantage.
DWU led 47-23 at halftime and the Blue Raiders never got closer than 17 points in the latter stages of the game.
The Tigers' top-three scorers — Emma Yost, Rosenquist and Avery Broughton — combined for 49 of the Tigers' 78 points. Playing down the road from her high school alma mater of Dakota Valley, Rosenquist finished with 17 points, eight assists and seven rebounds. Broughton finished with 16 points and six rebounds, with 16 points from Yost on a 7-for-12 shooting effort from the field. Shalayne Nagel had eight points, 12 rebounds and four assists, while Jaida Young and Maleighya Estes each had seven points apiece.
In a matchup of two of the nation's best assist-to-turnover ratio teams, DWU feasted in that category, finishing with 23 assists on 30 made field goals. The Tigers had eight assists before their first turnover, which came nearly 14 minutes into the game.
The physicality of the game was apparent in the rebounding numbers, where DWU held a 49-43 edge. It included 46 total offensive rebounds, with Lindsey Wilson pulling down 24 and the Tigers snaring 22.
Lindsey Wilson was held by 16 points from its leading scorer Meadow Tisdale but she was kept to four points in the opening half. Saniyah Shelton and Taylor Guess each had 10 points for the Blue Raiders, who end the season at 23-8.
"We had five days to prepare for them and I thought we did a really good job," DWU coach Jason Christensen said. "Our kids listened to the scouting report. We executed the sets that we wanted to run offensively. We did what we wanted to do defensively on Tisdale and Shelton."
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