BREVARD, N.C. - The Brevard College women's basketball team (19-5) kicked off its postseason run with a historically dominant 103-31 victory over seventh-seeded Greensboro College (5-19) on Tuesday evening at the Boshamer Gymnasium. The Tornados set a new single-game NCAA-era record for points scored, while senior guard
Josie Hester canned her 200
th collegiate 3-point basket.
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BC's offense, which featured 15 total scorers in the contest, was paced by a trio of double-digit scorers.
Makenna Parkins scored 13 points on a flawless 5-of-5 shooting mark from the field and a pair of 3-pointers.
Analee Morris added 12 points, while Hester also scored in double figures with 10 points.
Somer Johnson added nine points, five assists, and matched a team-high with five assists, and graduate student
Chyna Pouncey posted nine points and five rebounds.
Kayla Jean collected a team-high six rebounds, and
Jada Petty-Wilkins recorded three steals.
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As a whole, Brevard made 48.6% of its field goal attempts and drilled 12 3-pointers. BC scored 42 points in the paint, created 34 points off GC turnovers, scored 23 points in transition, utilized the offensive glass for 18 second-chance points, and tallied a whopping 64 points off the bench.
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BC got off to an 8-0 start behind a pair of made 3-pointers by Parkins, forcing an early GC timeout. Brevard continued its dominant first-quarter effort, shooting 72% from the field with three 3-pointers in the stanza, holding a 21-point, 30-9 lead after one quarter.
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Brevard kept pressure on Greensboro throughout the first five minutes of the second period, outpacing the Pride 10-4 ahead of the under-five timeout. Eleven total Tornados got into the scoring column in the first half, as Brevard held a commanding 32-point advantage, 52-20.
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Parkins led all scorers with 11 points, shooting 4-for-4 from the field with two made 3-pointers.
Shania Houser hauled down a team-best six rebounds, with Parkins and
Christena Rhone each distributing three assists apiece. As a team, Brevard shot 50% from the field and hit seven 3-pointers in the first half, and held the Pride to a 7-of-30 mark shooting, and forced seven turnovers defensively.
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BC started the third period on a 14-0 spurt, forcing a GC timeout at the 7:06 mark. One of those 14 points was Hester's 200
th collegiate 3-pointer, as the Huntersville, North Carolina native has made 133 at Brevard in addition to 67 at UVA-Wise. The Tornados outscored the Pride by a whopping 35-6 margin in the third quarter of action.
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The Tornados finished off their record-setting offensive performance by scoring 15 points in the fourth quarter to set the new NCAA-era single-game scoring mark with 103 points, surpassing the previous mark of 101 set on January 11, 2010 at Truett McConnell.
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Greensboro's Azuria Barrino led the way for the Pride with 16 points and six boards, while Meah Brooks also scored in double figures with 11.
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The Tornados now advance to the Semifinals of the 2025 USA South Conference Tournament, where #2 Brevard will host #3 NC Wesleyan on Thursday at 6 p.m. inside the Boshamer Gymnasium. It marks the first time that BC WBB has hosted the semifinal of a conference tournament in the program's NCAA history.
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