Women's Basketball Drops Final Regular Season Game to SDSU

Saturday, February 26

Brookings, SD

2:00 PM

Kansas City

22-7,12-6Summit League

South Dakota State

21-8,17-1Summit League

Kansas City

South Dakota St.

Women's Basketball Drops Final Regular Season Game to SDSU

2/26/2022 4:05:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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McDavid and Willems combine for 35 points

BROOKINGS, S.D. – Kansas City Women's Basketball (22-7, 12-6) fell to South Dakota State (21-8, 17-1) in their final regular season game, 62-94. Brooklyn McDavid finished with a team-high 18 points and a season-high-tying three steals. Mandy Willems followed with 17 points, knocking down five three-pointers and bringing her season total to 66 threes, two shy of a single-season top-ten performance in program history.
KEY MOMENTS

1Q / 6-9 | Kansas City's defense stepped up for a couple stops that converted into a few McDavid lay-ins.
1Q / 11-24 | Dani Winslow took a wide open three and knocked it down.
2Q / 16-37 | Paige Bradford dialed up a nice up-and-under move to get the offense going in the second quarter.

2Q | Paige with the nice move on offense and a block on the other end of the floor.#KCRoos | @Paige_Bradford3 pic.twitter.com/oTsHz4X8P3
— Kansas City Women's Basketball (@KCRoos_WBB) February 26, 2022

2Q / 23-49 | Back-to-back threes by Willems tallied nine points for her, leading the Roos through the first half.
3Q / 32-59 | Willems hit her fourth three of the day and 65^th of the season.

3Q | 4? threes for Mandy today and 6?5? on the season??#KCRoos | @mandywillems3 pic.twitter.com/p8C7uV6ymA
— Kansas City Women's Basketball (@KCRoos_WBB) February 26, 2022

3Q / 43-74 | A perfect pass from Bradford to a cutting Naomie Alnatas gave the Roos a three-point play at the free throw line.
4Q / 46-80 | Jada Mickens found herself open beyond the arc and dropped one in.

4Q | @jadamickens for 3?#KCRoos | #KCcommitted pic.twitter.com/WaBHNtRTBN
— Kansas City Women's Basketball (@KCRoos_WBB) February 26, 2022

4Q / 54-82 | McDavid went on a personal five-point run to bring her to a team-high 18 points.
4Q / 58-90 | Landry Williams came in to knock down a three in the final minutes for the second game in a row.

STATS TO NOTE

The Roos ended the regular season with a 12-6 record in conference play, good for third place. This marks the best finish in The Summit League since 2003-04 season when Kansas City finished third with an 11-5 record.
McDavid led the scoring production for Kansas City for the fourth game in a row, averaging 21 points over the last four games.
Willems had her most efficient performance from beyond the arc, shooting 5-for-7 from long range for a season-high 71.4%. She finished with 17 points, her second highest scoring performance this season.
Bradford and Alnatas were status quo in leading the team with rebounds (5) and assists (8), respectively.

UP NEXT
Kansas City has locked in the third seed in The Summit League tournament next week, squaring off against the six-seed on Sunday, March 6 at 3 p.m. in Sioux Falls, S.D. For more information on the championship, visit https://thesummitleague.org/tournaments/?id=218.