BALTIMORE – Hope Evans hit the game-winning layup with 2.7 seconds left to lift the Coppin State women's basketball team to a 64-63 MEAC victory over Delaware State on Monday night at PEC Arena. The Eagles now stand at 5-16 overall and 2-4 in league play while the Hornets fall to 4-14 on the year and 2-5 in the conference.
Inside the Numbers
- Jewel Watkins led all players with 22 points along with ten rebounds for a double-double. Watkins hit a career-high seven 3-pointers which is one off the school-record and blocked three shots. She now has 76 career 3-pointers, moving into tenth on Coppin's all-time list.
- Lucia Reos went for a season-high 13 points with three triples and dished out four assists. Evans also finished in double figures with ten points and an identical four assists.
- Cortney Gardner stuffed the stat sheet with nine points, five rebounds, four steals and two assists and Mossi Staples had a game-high five assists.
- Delaware State outshot Coppin, but the Eagles hit 12 3-pointers and matched a season-high with 18 assists on their 25 made baskets. CSU forced the Hornets into 15 turnovers and capitalized with 24 points off those miscues.
- The Hornets got 14 points from Alexis Moragne.
How it Happened
- After Delaware State missed a pair of free throws with 13 seconds left, Jenkins grabbed her seventh rebound of the game and immediately called timeout.
- Coppin advanced the ball following the stoppage where Watkins found Evans on the right wing. Evans drove left, euro-stepped and hit the double-clutched layup in the middle of the paint.
- Delaware State's desperation inbounds pass was stolen by Staples as the Eagles erupted in celebration.
- The Eagles rallied from a 56-49 fourth quarter deficit, tying the score at 57-57 with 5:08 left after threes from Watkins and Staples before Reos hit a jumper with just over five minutes remaining.
- DSU scored the next four points before Reos cut the deficit in half with a midrange jumper at the 1:30 mark.
- After a pair of free throws by the Hornets, Watkins buried a three from the right wing with 28 ticks to go following a pass from Reos.
- Gardner fouled Moragne following a timeout, and her misses from the stripe kept Coppin within a point.
Up Next: Coppin returns to action on Saturday, February 11 when it travels to South Carolina State for a 2 pm tipoff. Two nights later, the Eagles head to Durham, N.C., to play North Carolina Central in a 5:30 pm start.
