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Hagemann’s Career High Helps Open the Fralick Era with Win over Oakland
11/8/2023 10:44:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Junior guard DeeDee Hagemann scored a career-high 23 in the victory.
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Junior guard DeeDee Hagemann helped open the Robyn Fralick era with a bang, leading the Michigan State women's basketball team to an 87-62 win over Oakland in the season opener Wednesday at the Breslin Center.
Fralick becomes the fourth Spartan women's basketball head coach to win their opening game as MSU head coach, joining Dominic Marino in 1975-76, who also won his opener over Oakland; Joanne P. McCallie in 2000-01 and Suzy Merchant in 2007.
The Spartans have now won 10-straight season openers, improving to 1-0. Oakland has now evened out its record at 1-1.
Hagemann set a new career high with 23 points, going 5-for-6 from beyond the arc. Her previous career high was 20 against Penn State on Feb. 25, 2023. She also added five assists and four rebounds. Sophomore guard Abbey Kimball, who made her first career start, tied her career high with 13 points and adding a career-high five assists. Graduate guard Moira Joiner scored 12 points, while junior forward Isaline Alexander scored 10 off the bench. Graduate guard/forward Julia Ayrault set a new career high with five blocks.
Oakland was led by Markyia McCormick who scored 18 points, while former Spartan Maddy Skorupski added 14.
Michigan State was plagued by turnovers with four in the a three-minute span, as Oakland took the early 7-5 lead. The Grizzlies' lead grew to 10-5 before a Hagemann layup got the Spartans going. Behind nine points from Hagemann, the Spartans led after the first quarter, 16-15.
In the second quarter, the Spartan offense came to life. In the period, Michigan State out-scored Oakland, 25-14. Four Spartans scored five points in the quarter to pull ahead. A Kimball fast-break layup with 1:54 remaining gave MSU its first double-digit lead, 35-25. At the half, MSU led 41-29.
An old-fashioned trey by Ayrault gave Michigan State an 18-point advantage at the 7:26 mark of the third period. Michigan State took its first 20-point lead after an Alexander three-point play. The Spartans went on a 13-1 run over a two-minute span. The third period was Michigan State's strongest out-scoring the Grizzlies 27-6.
Oakland started the fourth quarter with a 14-0 to cut it to a 73-52. Freshman center Mary Meng scored her first points as a Spartan with six points in the final stanza. Freshman guard Bree Robinson also made her debut with two assists and a steal. Despite being out-scored 27-19 in the fourth quarter, MSU still captured the 25-point win.
The Spartans continue their four-game homestand against Wright State on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. at the Breslin Center.
Michigan State Women's Basketball Post-Game Notes
• Michigan State officially tipped off the head coach Robyn Fralick era with Wednesday's Victory for MSU over Oakland ... Fralick was hired as the sixth head women's basketball head coach at Michigan State on March 31, 2023 ... Fralick becomes the fourth Spartan women's basketball head coach to win their opening game as MSU head coach, joining Dominic Marino in 1975-76, who also won his opener over Oakland; Joanne P. McCallie in 2000-01 and Suzy Merchant in 2007 ... Mikki Baile lost her opener, the first game in program history in MSU's inaugural game on Jan. 30, 1973, and Karen Langeland lost her opening game as the Spartans' head coach in to open the 1976-77 season.
• The 87 points scored by the Spartans in Fralick's opening game at the helm was the most in an MSU head coach's first game, topping the previous top mark of 76 points by the Spartans in McCallie's opener, a 76-50 win over Arkansas State on Nov. 17, 2000 ... MSU beat Oakland, 71-39, in Marino's first game at helm of the Green & White on Jan. 8, 1976 ... the Spartans beat IUPUI, 65-35, in Merchant's first game guiding MSU on Nov. 9, 2007 ... Michigan State scored 53 points in a 54-53 loss to Grand Valley in Langeland's first game on Dec. 3, 1976 ... MSU scored 31 points in Baile's opener, a 38-31 loss to Eastern Michigan on Jan. 30, 1973 in the aforementioned first Spartan game.
• Michigan State's 87 points in its season opener marked its third-straight opener topping 80 points, netting 93 points in both the 2021-22 and 2022-23 season-openers.
• MSU beat Oakland for the 16th-straight meeting, in taking a 20-4 lead in the all-time series, improving to 13-2 in games played in East Lansing, winning the last 10 played on the Spartans' home court.
• Eleven of the 12 Spartans to see the court scored at least two points, including four in double-figures, led by junior guard DeeDee Hagemann's career-high 23 points, while sophomore Abbey Kimball added 13 points, senior guard Moira Joiner added 12 points and junior forward Isaline Alexander added 10 points off the bench.
• Junior guard DeeDee Hagemann netted a career-high 23 points, bettering her previous career-best of 20 points, done at Penn State on Feb. 25, 2023 ... Hagemann also tied a career-high with five 3-pointers Wednesday night, matching five treys vs. Western Michigan last season on Nov. 15, 2022 ... with a game-high tying five assists in the game, Hagemann is picking up right where she left off from last season, when she had at least three assists in 25 of the 29 games played.
• Sophomore guard Abbey Kimball tied a career-high with her 13 points, logging her second career double-figure outing in matching her previous career-best of 13 points vs. Rutgers last season on Jan. 22, 2023 ... Kimball also netted a career-high three 3-pointers Wednesday night, topping her previous top mark of two triples last season in same game vs. Rutgers.
• Kimball also dished out a career-high five assists, topping her previous top mark of two helpers in the Rutgers game last season.
• Graduate guard Moira Joiner scored all 12 of her points on 3-pointers, netting four treys for the second-straight game of her career, as she also drained four three-pointers in last season's final game, a loss to Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament ... Joiner has drained three or more treys in seven of her last 31 games played dating back to last season, including hitting multiple triples in 10 of the last 31 games, highlighted by four of her last five games played.
• Joiner also snared a game-high eight rebounds, just shy of last year's season-best of 10 boards vs. Iowa (1/18/23), adding nine in the previously mentioned Indiana game in the B1G tourney, and eight at Maryland (1/7/23).
• Junior forward Isaline Alexander's 10 points Wednesday was her sixth career double-figure scoring outing, as the previous five all came last season ... Alexander also dished out a career-high three assists in the game, topping her previous career-best of two helpers, done three times last season.
• Graduate guard/forward Julia Ayrault swatted a career-high five blocked shots, bettering her previous top mark of her career of three, done seven times previously, most recently at Michigan (2/16/21)
• Alexander's 10 points off the bench helped the Spartan reserves outscored their counterparts from Oakland, 29-25.
• Senior guard Gabby Elliott was one of those other Spartans to come off the bench, as she returned to the court for the first time since a season-ending injury on Dec. 11, 2022 shortened last season ... Elliott tallied five points, seven rebounds and three assists.
• Four of the five Spartans to make their debut for the Spartans scored in their first game for the Green & White: junior guard Jocelyn Tate with three points; redshirt-junior guard Lauren Ross with two points; freshman forward Mary Meng had six points ... the fifth Spartan newcomer, freshman guard Bree Robinson didn't score but dished out two assists and swiped one steal.
• Tate swiped a game-high four steals Wednesday night, shy of her career-best of seven steals during her Bowling Green last season vs. Western Michigan (2/18/23).
• MSU pulled away from a 16-15 lead after the first quarter by out-scoring Oakland, 25-14, in the second quarter to take a 41-29 lead at halftime, then erupted for a 27-6 scoring margin in the third quarter, spanning the final quarter as the Spartans took their largest lead of the night of 35 points at 73-38 on a layup by graduate guard Tory Ozment at the 8:24 mark.
Fralick becomes the fourth Spartan women's basketball head coach to win their opening game as MSU head coach, joining Dominic Marino in 1975-76, who also won his opener over Oakland; Joanne P. McCallie in 2000-01 and Suzy Merchant in 2007.
The Spartans have now won 10-straight season openers, improving to 1-0. Oakland has now evened out its record at 1-1.
Hagemann set a new career high with 23 points, going 5-for-6 from beyond the arc. Her previous career high was 20 against Penn State on Feb. 25, 2023. She also added five assists and four rebounds. Sophomore guard Abbey Kimball, who made her first career start, tied her career high with 13 points and adding a career-high five assists. Graduate guard Moira Joiner scored 12 points, while junior forward Isaline Alexander scored 10 off the bench. Graduate guard/forward Julia Ayrault set a new career high with five blocks.
Oakland was led by Markyia McCormick who scored 18 points, while former Spartan Maddy Skorupski added 14.
Michigan State was plagued by turnovers with four in the a three-minute span, as Oakland took the early 7-5 lead. The Grizzlies' lead grew to 10-5 before a Hagemann layup got the Spartans going. Behind nine points from Hagemann, the Spartans led after the first quarter, 16-15.
In the second quarter, the Spartan offense came to life. In the period, Michigan State out-scored Oakland, 25-14. Four Spartans scored five points in the quarter to pull ahead. A Kimball fast-break layup with 1:54 remaining gave MSU its first double-digit lead, 35-25. At the half, MSU led 41-29.
An old-fashioned trey by Ayrault gave Michigan State an 18-point advantage at the 7:26 mark of the third period. Michigan State took its first 20-point lead after an Alexander three-point play. The Spartans went on a 13-1 run over a two-minute span. The third period was Michigan State's strongest out-scoring the Grizzlies 27-6.
Oakland started the fourth quarter with a 14-0 to cut it to a 73-52. Freshman center Mary Meng scored her first points as a Spartan with six points in the final stanza. Freshman guard Bree Robinson also made her debut with two assists and a steal. Despite being out-scored 27-19 in the fourth quarter, MSU still captured the 25-point win.
The Spartans continue their four-game homestand against Wright State on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. at the Breslin Center.
Michigan State Women's Basketball Post-Game Notes
• Michigan State officially tipped off the head coach Robyn Fralick era with Wednesday's Victory for MSU over Oakland ... Fralick was hired as the sixth head women's basketball head coach at Michigan State on March 31, 2023 ... Fralick becomes the fourth Spartan women's basketball head coach to win their opening game as MSU head coach, joining Dominic Marino in 1975-76, who also won his opener over Oakland; Joanne P. McCallie in 2000-01 and Suzy Merchant in 2007 ... Mikki Baile lost her opener, the first game in program history in MSU's inaugural game on Jan. 30, 1973, and Karen Langeland lost her opening game as the Spartans' head coach in to open the 1976-77 season.
• The 87 points scored by the Spartans in Fralick's opening game at the helm was the most in an MSU head coach's first game, topping the previous top mark of 76 points by the Spartans in McCallie's opener, a 76-50 win over Arkansas State on Nov. 17, 2000 ... MSU beat Oakland, 71-39, in Marino's first game at helm of the Green & White on Jan. 8, 1976 ... the Spartans beat IUPUI, 65-35, in Merchant's first game guiding MSU on Nov. 9, 2007 ... Michigan State scored 53 points in a 54-53 loss to Grand Valley in Langeland's first game on Dec. 3, 1976 ... MSU scored 31 points in Baile's opener, a 38-31 loss to Eastern Michigan on Jan. 30, 1973 in the aforementioned first Spartan game.
• Michigan State's 87 points in its season opener marked its third-straight opener topping 80 points, netting 93 points in both the 2021-22 and 2022-23 season-openers.
• MSU beat Oakland for the 16th-straight meeting, in taking a 20-4 lead in the all-time series, improving to 13-2 in games played in East Lansing, winning the last 10 played on the Spartans' home court.
• Eleven of the 12 Spartans to see the court scored at least two points, including four in double-figures, led by junior guard DeeDee Hagemann's career-high 23 points, while sophomore Abbey Kimball added 13 points, senior guard Moira Joiner added 12 points and junior forward Isaline Alexander added 10 points off the bench.
• Junior guard DeeDee Hagemann netted a career-high 23 points, bettering her previous career-best of 20 points, done at Penn State on Feb. 25, 2023 ... Hagemann also tied a career-high with five 3-pointers Wednesday night, matching five treys vs. Western Michigan last season on Nov. 15, 2022 ... with a game-high tying five assists in the game, Hagemann is picking up right where she left off from last season, when she had at least three assists in 25 of the 29 games played.
• Sophomore guard Abbey Kimball tied a career-high with her 13 points, logging her second career double-figure outing in matching her previous career-best of 13 points vs. Rutgers last season on Jan. 22, 2023 ... Kimball also netted a career-high three 3-pointers Wednesday night, topping her previous top mark of two triples last season in same game vs. Rutgers.
• Kimball also dished out a career-high five assists, topping her previous top mark of two helpers in the Rutgers game last season.
• Graduate guard Moira Joiner scored all 12 of her points on 3-pointers, netting four treys for the second-straight game of her career, as she also drained four three-pointers in last season's final game, a loss to Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament ... Joiner has drained three or more treys in seven of her last 31 games played dating back to last season, including hitting multiple triples in 10 of the last 31 games, highlighted by four of her last five games played.
• Joiner also snared a game-high eight rebounds, just shy of last year's season-best of 10 boards vs. Iowa (1/18/23), adding nine in the previously mentioned Indiana game in the B1G tourney, and eight at Maryland (1/7/23).
• Junior forward Isaline Alexander's 10 points Wednesday was her sixth career double-figure scoring outing, as the previous five all came last season ... Alexander also dished out a career-high three assists in the game, topping her previous career-best of two helpers, done three times last season.
• Graduate guard/forward Julia Ayrault swatted a career-high five blocked shots, bettering her previous top mark of her career of three, done seven times previously, most recently at Michigan (2/16/21)
• Alexander's 10 points off the bench helped the Spartan reserves outscored their counterparts from Oakland, 29-25.
• Senior guard Gabby Elliott was one of those other Spartans to come off the bench, as she returned to the court for the first time since a season-ending injury on Dec. 11, 2022 shortened last season ... Elliott tallied five points, seven rebounds and three assists.
• Four of the five Spartans to make their debut for the Spartans scored in their first game for the Green & White: junior guard Jocelyn Tate with three points; redshirt-junior guard Lauren Ross with two points; freshman forward Mary Meng had six points ... the fifth Spartan newcomer, freshman guard Bree Robinson didn't score but dished out two assists and swiped one steal.
• Tate swiped a game-high four steals Wednesday night, shy of her career-best of seven steals during her Bowling Green last season vs. Western Michigan (2/18/23).
• MSU pulled away from a 16-15 lead after the first quarter by out-scoring Oakland, 25-14, in the second quarter to take a 41-29 lead at halftime, then erupted for a 27-6 scoring margin in the third quarter, spanning the final quarter as the Spartans took their largest lead of the night of 35 points at 73-38 on a layup by graduate guard Tory Ozment at the 8:24 mark.
Team Stats
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MSU
FG%
.339
.478
3FG%
.375
.429
FT%
.778
.818
RB
37
40
TO
21
17
STL
6
13
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
23
FGM
8
3FGM
5
FTM
2
Pts
13
FGM
5
3FGM
3
FTM
0
Pts
12
FGM
4
3FGM
4
FTM
0
Pts
10
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
2
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