Women’s Basketball Wins the Hawkeye Challenge

Sunday, November 20

Iowa City, Iowa

2 p.m.

South Dakota State University

4-0

Iowa

4-1

South Dakota State

Iowa

Hawkeye Challenge All-Tournament L to R; Macy Miller, Madison Guebert, Clarissa Ober, Ellie Thompson

Photo by: Jason Salzman

11/20/2016 5:40:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

IOWA CITY, Iowa—South Dakota State junior Macy Miller scored the game-winning jumper at the buzzer as the Jackrabbits defeated Iowa, 66-64, Sunday afternoon in the Hawkeye Challenge in front of 3,826 fans in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

SDSU improves to 4-0, marking the best start to the season since 2008-09. Iowa falls to 4-1.

Miller, who was named the tournament MVP, broke a 64-64 tie after Iowa's Megan Gustafson scored a put-back basket with five second remaining.

The Mitchell native recorded a game-high 22 points and a team-and personal-best 10 rebounds to record her third collegiate double-double. Senior Clarissa Ober finished with 15 points and 7 rebounds. Junior Ellie Thompson netted 11 points and sophomore Madison Guebert added 10 points and 3 steals. The trio was named to the all-tournament team.

Gustafson led Iowa with 21 points and 13 rebounds while Ally Disterhoft had 16 points.

After leading 38-25 at halftime, the Jackrabbits took its largest lead of the game when Ober hit a 3-pointer with 1:02 left in the third quarter. Guebert then sank a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to put SDSU up 54-41 at the end of the quarter.

Iowa battled back in the fourth quarter, using a 12-4 run to pull within five, 58-53, on a Gustafson layup with 5:05 remaining. Miller sank her lone 3-pointer of the game to put the Jacks up by eight, 61-53, but a 9-2 Hawkeye run cut the lead to 63-62 game.

With 20 second left, Miller made the first of a two free throws to put South Dakota State up 64-62. Hawkeye Tania Davis then missed a layup with five seconds before Gustafson's put-back basket.

Notes

Kerri Young needs 29 points to become the 35^th Jackrabbit to score 1,000 career points.
Macy Miller is 47 points shy of 31^st on the all-time scoring list after passing Ketty Cornemann Sunday.
SDSU head coach Aaron Johnston is now four wins short of 400 career wins.
The last time the Jackrabbits opened the season 4-0 was 2008-09 when that team won its first four games.
The Jackrabbits snapped Iowa's streak of six Hawkeye Challenge titles.

Up Next
South Dakota State travels to Norman, Okla., to take on the Sooners Wednesday at 7 p.m.

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