Belmont 79, at Evansville 73

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (Interstat) — In a game defined more by grit than grace, the Belmont Bruins escaped Ford Center with a 79-73 overtime victory over the Evansville Purple Aces in a women’s NCAA Division I basketball game on Thursday night that defied statistical logic and preseason projections. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Belmont with a 97.60 percent probability to win, but for 40 minutes, Evansville authored a script of its own. The Bruins, now 12-8, needed a monumental 20-point explosion in the extra period to finally subdue a determined Evansville squad that fell to 5-16. The contest was a stark… Read more...