Thursday, November 2
East Lansing, Mich.
6:30 PM
Michigan State University
0-0,0-0Big Ten
99
vs
46
Davenport (Exhibition)
0-0,0-0GLIAC
1
2
3
4
F
Davenport
7
3
15
21
46
Michigan St.
23
23
31
22
99
Team Stats
Daven
MSU
FG%
.250
.481
3FG%
.235
.391
FT%
.727
.824
RB
32
52
TO
30
16
STL
2
15
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
18
FGM
8
3FGM
2
FTM
0
Pts
16
FGM
6
3FGM
3
FTM
1
Pts
11
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
1
Pts
10
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
2
Players Mentioned
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Five Score in Double Figures as Spartans Capture Exhibition Win over Davenport
11/2/2023 10:10:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Graduate guard Moira Joiner leads the Spartans with 18 points.
EAST LANSING, Mich. - In its only exhibition of the season, the new-look Michigan State women's basketball team had five in double figures en route to a 99-46 win over Davenport Thursday night at the Breslin Center.
MSU first-year head coach Robyn Fralick played 11 of the 13 players on the Spartan roster with all of them scoring and bringing down at least three rebounds.
Graduate guard Moira Joiner led the Spartans in scoring with 18 points, adding three rebounds and four steals, while sophomore guard Abbey Kimball added 16 points. Returning from an ACL injury, senior Gabby Elliott scored 11 points, while sophomore guard Theryn Hallock and junior transfer guard Lauren Ross both added 10 points. Graduate guard/forward Julia Ayrault brought down 11 rebounds for MSU.
Davenport was led by 11 points from both Mary Liedel and Amyah Espanol.
Michigan State had a 36-3 advantage in points off turnovers, a 56-8 advantage in points in the points, 24-1 in second-chance points, 35-7 in fast break points and a 45-10 advantage in bench scoring.
Michigan State used an 11-0 run to take a 15-4 run early in the first quarter. The run was halted at 12-0 after Makenna Bryant free throw. Joiner out-scored the Panthers in the first quarter with nine points, as MSU led after the first 10 minutes 23-7. The Spartans shot 47.8% from the field to start the game.
In the second quarter, the Spartans scored the first nine points of the period, but then hit an offensive slump. Michigan State went 2:59 without scoring before a pair of Mary Meng free throws stopped the lull. The freshman center was solid in the quarter scoring four of her six points in the period. After MSU scored the first 15 points of the period, the Panthers got on the board after an Espanol free throw. The Spartans out-scored DU 23-3 in the second period and 46-10 in the first half.
Michigan State started the third quarter on 19-1 run over 5:46 to lead 69-17. The Spartans out-scored the Panthers 31-15 in the period behind eight points from Kimball.
In the fourth period, the Panthers had their strongest showing with 21 points. Freshmen Meng and Bree Robinson both saw significant minutes in the final stanza. Ten of MSU's 22 points came in the paint.
The Spartans open the regular season against Oakland on Wednesday, Nov. 8 at the Breslin Center at 6:30 p.m.
Michigan State Women's Basketball Post-Game Notes
• Michigan State opened the head coach Robyn Fralick era with Thursday night's exhibition ... Fralick was hired as the sixth head women's basketball head coach at Michigan State on March 31.
• All 11 Spartan players that saw the court scored at least two points, including five in double-figures ... graduate guard Moira Joiner led the way with a game-high 18 points, while sophomore guard Abbey Kimball added 16 points, senior guard Gabby Elliott tallied 11 points, while sophomore guard Theryn Hallock and redshirt-junior guard Lauren Ross tossed in 10 apiece ... Ross was making her Spartan debut as she transferred to MSU from Western Michigan.
• All 11 MSU players to play also pulled down at least three rebounds, with graduate guard/forward Julia Ayrault leading the way with a game-high 11 rebounds, helping Michigan State to a 52-32 rebounding advantage.
• Last season, Joiner posted double-figures in 17 games, led by a season-high 20 points vs. Wisconsin (1/11/23) ... during the 2022-23 season, Kimball netted double-digits once, with 13 points vs. Rutgers (1/22/23) ... Elliott had six games with double-figures during the 11 contests she played in before a season-ending injury cut her season short, and Thursday was her first action in a Spartan uniform since Dec. 11, 2022 ... Hallock registered double-figures once last season with 13 points vs. Purdue Fort Wayne (11/10/22) ... Ross tallied double-digits in all 17 games she played in last season at Western Michigan.
• Ayrault had one double-figure rebounding outing last season with 10 boards at Northwestern (1/2/23).
• MSU made nine 3-pointers Thursday night, with Kimball leading the way with three triples ... last year, Kimball's season-high was two 3-pointers, done in back-to-back games vs. Rutgers (1/22/23) and at Illinois (1/29/23).
• Nine of the 11 players to see action had at least one assist, with junior guard DeeDee Hagemann dished out a game-high six helpers, while Hallock also distributed four assists ... junior guard/forward Jocelyn Tate matched Hallock with four assists in her MSU debut after transferring from Bowling Green, where she played for Fralick.
• The Spartans netted at least 22 points in each quarter, tallying 23 in each of the first two frames for their 46-10 halftime lead, then had 31 points in the third before 22 in the fourth and final stanza ... MSU's defense held Davenport to seven points in the first quarter, then three in the second stanza, followed by 15 in the third and 21 in the fourth quarter.
• Michigan State had a 36-3 advantage in points off turnovers, a 56-8 advantage in points in the points, 24-1 in second-chance points, 35-7 in fast break points and a 45-10 advantage in bench scoring.
• MSU's largest lead was 58 points at the 8:13 mark of the fourth quarter on a 3-point field goal by Ayrault.
• Davenport scored the first basket of the game 22 seconds into the game, before MSU made its first bucket on a 3-pointer by Joiner with 9:26 on the clock for the first and only lead change of the night, and the Spartans never trailed the remaining 39:26 of the game.
• Michigan State's biggest run of the night was a 15-0 run over the beginning of the second quarter ... after Davenport made a pair of free throws to make the score 23-7 with 14 seconds left in the frame for the first quarter score, MSU's run started 26 seconds into the second quarter on a layup by Kimball and Elliott capped the 15-0 run with a putback at 2:58 of the stanza for a 38-7 Spartan lead.
MSU first-year head coach Robyn Fralick played 11 of the 13 players on the Spartan roster with all of them scoring and bringing down at least three rebounds.
Graduate guard Moira Joiner led the Spartans in scoring with 18 points, adding three rebounds and four steals, while sophomore guard Abbey Kimball added 16 points. Returning from an ACL injury, senior Gabby Elliott scored 11 points, while sophomore guard Theryn Hallock and junior transfer guard Lauren Ross both added 10 points. Graduate guard/forward Julia Ayrault brought down 11 rebounds for MSU.
Davenport was led by 11 points from both Mary Liedel and Amyah Espanol.
Michigan State had a 36-3 advantage in points off turnovers, a 56-8 advantage in points in the points, 24-1 in second-chance points, 35-7 in fast break points and a 45-10 advantage in bench scoring.
Michigan State used an 11-0 run to take a 15-4 run early in the first quarter. The run was halted at 12-0 after Makenna Bryant free throw. Joiner out-scored the Panthers in the first quarter with nine points, as MSU led after the first 10 minutes 23-7. The Spartans shot 47.8% from the field to start the game.
In the second quarter, the Spartans scored the first nine points of the period, but then hit an offensive slump. Michigan State went 2:59 without scoring before a pair of Mary Meng free throws stopped the lull. The freshman center was solid in the quarter scoring four of her six points in the period. After MSU scored the first 15 points of the period, the Panthers got on the board after an Espanol free throw. The Spartans out-scored DU 23-3 in the second period and 46-10 in the first half.
Michigan State started the third quarter on 19-1 run over 5:46 to lead 69-17. The Spartans out-scored the Panthers 31-15 in the period behind eight points from Kimball.
In the fourth period, the Panthers had their strongest showing with 21 points. Freshmen Meng and Bree Robinson both saw significant minutes in the final stanza. Ten of MSU's 22 points came in the paint.
The Spartans open the regular season against Oakland on Wednesday, Nov. 8 at the Breslin Center at 6:30 p.m.
Michigan State Women's Basketball Post-Game Notes
• Michigan State opened the head coach Robyn Fralick era with Thursday night's exhibition ... Fralick was hired as the sixth head women's basketball head coach at Michigan State on March 31.
• All 11 Spartan players that saw the court scored at least two points, including five in double-figures ... graduate guard Moira Joiner led the way with a game-high 18 points, while sophomore guard Abbey Kimball added 16 points, senior guard Gabby Elliott tallied 11 points, while sophomore guard Theryn Hallock and redshirt-junior guard Lauren Ross tossed in 10 apiece ... Ross was making her Spartan debut as she transferred to MSU from Western Michigan.
• All 11 MSU players to play also pulled down at least three rebounds, with graduate guard/forward Julia Ayrault leading the way with a game-high 11 rebounds, helping Michigan State to a 52-32 rebounding advantage.
• Last season, Joiner posted double-figures in 17 games, led by a season-high 20 points vs. Wisconsin (1/11/23) ... during the 2022-23 season, Kimball netted double-digits once, with 13 points vs. Rutgers (1/22/23) ... Elliott had six games with double-figures during the 11 contests she played in before a season-ending injury cut her season short, and Thursday was her first action in a Spartan uniform since Dec. 11, 2022 ... Hallock registered double-figures once last season with 13 points vs. Purdue Fort Wayne (11/10/22) ... Ross tallied double-digits in all 17 games she played in last season at Western Michigan.
• Ayrault had one double-figure rebounding outing last season with 10 boards at Northwestern (1/2/23).
• MSU made nine 3-pointers Thursday night, with Kimball leading the way with three triples ... last year, Kimball's season-high was two 3-pointers, done in back-to-back games vs. Rutgers (1/22/23) and at Illinois (1/29/23).
• Nine of the 11 players to see action had at least one assist, with junior guard DeeDee Hagemann dished out a game-high six helpers, while Hallock also distributed four assists ... junior guard/forward Jocelyn Tate matched Hallock with four assists in her MSU debut after transferring from Bowling Green, where she played for Fralick.
• The Spartans netted at least 22 points in each quarter, tallying 23 in each of the first two frames for their 46-10 halftime lead, then had 31 points in the third before 22 in the fourth and final stanza ... MSU's defense held Davenport to seven points in the first quarter, then three in the second stanza, followed by 15 in the third and 21 in the fourth quarter.
• Michigan State had a 36-3 advantage in points off turnovers, a 56-8 advantage in points in the points, 24-1 in second-chance points, 35-7 in fast break points and a 45-10 advantage in bench scoring.
• MSU's largest lead was 58 points at the 8:13 mark of the fourth quarter on a 3-point field goal by Ayrault.
• Davenport scored the first basket of the game 22 seconds into the game, before MSU made its first bucket on a 3-pointer by Joiner with 9:26 on the clock for the first and only lead change of the night, and the Spartans never trailed the remaining 39:26 of the game.
• Michigan State's biggest run of the night was a 15-0 run over the beginning of the second quarter ... after Davenport made a pair of free throws to make the score 23-7 with 14 seconds left in the frame for the first quarter score, MSU's run started 26 seconds into the second quarter on a layup by Kimball and Elliott capped the 15-0 run with a putback at 2:58 of the stanza for a 38-7 Spartan lead.
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