Women's Basketball Earns 77-62 Road Win Over Tiffin

OVERVIEW – TIFFIN

SCORE:  Northwood Timberwolves 77, Tiffin Dragons 62

RECORDS: Northwood (12-12, 9-8 G-MAC), Tiffin (6-20, 3-14 G-MAC)

LOCATION: Gillmor Student Center – Tiffin, Ohio

RECAP:  Northwood women's basketball rides 22-1 third-quarter run to 77-62 win at Tiffin Thursday night (February 16).

GAME STORY

• Northwood led by six early (12-6), which was the largest lead of the opening quarter.
• The Timberwolves eventually led 17-15 after one.
• NU led 29-27 with just over a minute remaining when NU went on a run that continued into the third quarter.
• Northwood put up nine of the final 11 points in the last 1:01 to take a 38-29 lead at the break.
• NU led 40-34 at the 7:15 mark of the third quarter when the Timberwolves took over. Northwood out-scored Tiffin 22-1 the remainder of the quarter. That gave the Timberwolves a 62-27 lead heading to the fourth.
• NU's lead stood at 71-44 with 4:42 remaining when the Dragons finished strong to make the final margin of victory 15.

GAME STATS

• FG PERCENTAGE: Tiffin .419 (26-62), Northwood .452 (28-62)
• 3-PT PERCENTAGE: Tiffin .391 (9-23), Northwood .323 (10-31)
• FREE THROW PERCENTAGE: Tiffin .200 (1-5), Northwood .786 (11-14)
• REBOUNDS: Tiffin 33 (Six offensive), Northwood 41 (Nine offensive)
• ASSISTS/TURNOVERS: Tiffin 16/13, Northwood 17/12

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Ava DiMilia: 17 points, 10 rebounds, two assists
• Makenzie Todd: 14 points, three assists, 4-7 from 3-point range
• Maddie Voelker: 13 points
• Maizie Taylor: Nine points, nine rebounds, five assists

NORTHWOD NOTES

• Northwood has now won three straight and five of their last six games overall.
• The Timberwolves were out-rebounded in each of their first eight games as well as 16 of their first 18 games of the season. After 18 games, Northwood was a -7.9 in rebounding margin per game). Since then, the Timberwolves have out-rebounded their opponents in each of the last six games, during which they have a rebounding margin of +8.5.

UP NEXT

• The Timberwolves will host Ohio Dominican in their home finale Saturday (February 18). Game time is set for 1 p.m.