Roos Fall to Bison in High-Scoring Contest

Thursday, February 16

Fargo, ND

7:00 PM

Kansas City

7-19,3-12Summit League

North Dakota State

15-10,9-6Summit League

Kansas City

North Dakota St.

Photo by: Julia Kapros

Roos Fall to Bison in High-Scoring Contest

2/16/2023 10:53:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

Manna Mensah goes for 27 points in the loss

FARGO, N.D. – This evening, Kansas City Women's Basketball (7-19, 3 – 12 Summit) fell to North Dakota State (15-10, 9 – 6 Summit), tied for second in the Summit League, 86 – 75. A 27-point game for Manna Mensah, along with double-digits performances Tamia Ugass and Machia Mullens were not enough to keep the Roos on top. Sanaa' St. Andre put up six points for the Roos in her first game back since sustaining an injury on Dec. 29.

Ugass had a strong first quarter, putting seven on the board for the Roos, but earned two fouls in the process. Kansas City was aggressive from the start, shooting 43.9% from the field in the first quarter and forcing six turnovers. Leading for most of the first quarter, the Roos went into the second trailing by one 19 – 20.

Shooting 60% from three and 58.3 % from the field, Kansas City maintained the lead for most of the second quarter. Mensah got hot in the second quarter with 11 points and three triples. The Roos faced foul trouble early and paid for it later in the game, but went into halftime up by six.

The foul issues continued with Kansas City getting four fouls in the first two minutes of the third quarter. A low scoring fourth quarter, and five Roos with four our more fouls allowed NDSU to come out on top.

KEY MOMENTS

1Q — 5:21 / 9-11 | Rain Green scored one off a free throw. She then stole the ball on the opposite end of the court and drove to the basket, drawing the foul.
1Q — 1:37 / 16-15 | A jumper for Mullens off the assist from Mensah briefly gave Kansas City the lead.
1Q — 0:00 / 19-20 | Ugass drained a jumper to bring the Roos within one at the end of the quarter.
2Q — 2:02 / 35-33 | Mensah downed Kansas City's first three of the game from the corner and nailed another three on the next play.

2Q | Too cold ?? pic.twitter.com/kEtI0fzUzr
— Kansas City Women's Basketball (@KCRoosWBB) February 17, 2023

2Q — 0:24 / 42-36 | A fast break off a turnover gave St. Andre a layup for the Roos. In the following play, a defensive rebound by Kansas City led to the third Mensah three of the quarter.
3Q — 6:18 / 49-42 | A defensive rebound by Ewell allowed Green to make a driving layup. Mensah drained her fourth three of the game on the next play.
3Q — 1:11 / 56-58 | After a five-minute field goal drought, Mensah put up another layup for Kansas City.
3Q — 0:30 / 62-60 | Mensah drove the ball to the net for a layup, putting the Roos up by two, to end the third quarter. She put up 11 points in the third quarter.
4Q — 6:35 / 68-68 | A jumper from Ugass in the paint gave KC its first points of the quarter and once again, tied the game.
4Q — 3:48 / 71-76 | Kansas City's Mensah drew an and-one off her layup in the paint.

STATS TO NOTE

In three of the past four games, Mensah has surpassed her previous career high of 16-points. She earned 32 points against Oral Roberts, 22 against St. Thomas and 27 tonight.
Mensah drew seven fouls for the Roos, drawing the most fouls on both teams.
Tonight was the first time since playing Wyoming on December 11 that Kansas City pulled down less than 30 rebounds.
Both teams drew 26 fouls a piece, but the Roos shot 83.3% from the line compared to the 65.2% from NDSU.

UP NEXT
In its last road trip of the season, Kansas City travels to Grand Forks, N.D. playing UND on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.