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Aussies in NCAAW
Senior Lulu pours in 26 as Cal romps on opening day
California Golden Bears’ Lulu Twidale. Photo: Melina Pizano/Getty Images.
Lulu Twidale hit six threes for 26 points as California beat Washington State on NCAA opening day.
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California senior guard Lulu Twidale knocked down six of her nine threes for 26 points and eight rebounds as the Golden Bears beat Washington State 80-58 at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley.
Ninety-four Australian women had a game on opening day, and their teams went a combined 64-30.
All box scores are below in a searchable table.
Games played Monday, November 2 US time, Tuesday, November 3. All times AEDT.
Twidale, from the Sunshine Coast, went 9-from-16 from the field and 2-from-2 at the line in 34 minutes, with three assists and a block. Last season she had 36 points against Boston College.
Davidson senior Katie Donovan, from Queensland, played 37 minutes for 22 points, seven rebounds and three assists, but Davidson lost 71-65 at Columbia.
Purdue junior Hannah Wickstrom, from Melbourne, had 21 points and eight rebounds on her debut for the Boilermakers after transferring from UC Riverside. She made five of her six shots, including both threes, and went 9-from-12 at the line as Purdue beat IU Indianapolis 81-73.
Her former UC Riverside teammate Makayla Minshall, a junior from Sydney now at Queens, scored 18 on 4-from-6 from three, but the Royals lost 92-56 at Alabama.
UC Davis freshman Rebecca Donnelly, from Sydney, scored 16 off the bench in 24 minutes in her college debut, making all four of her threes, as the Aggies beat Jessup 82-42. Jessup is not a Division I program.
USC freshman Sitaya Fagan scored 11 points off the bench in her college debut, shooting 5-from-8 with a three, three assists and a block in 17 minutes, as the Trojans beat UNLV 100-68 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The 1.93m Opals forward from Melbourne set up three baskets, including a Jazzy Davidson three, in a game where USC had three 20-point scorers: Davidson (23), Saniyah Hall (22) and JuJu Watkins (21).
Bonnie Deas had three points, three rebounds, two steals and a block in 13 minutes off the bench as UCLA beat Lehigh 73-53.
She shot 1-from-4, and 1-from-4 at the line.
Thirty-five Australian women play on Wednesday, November 4 (AEDT), including five games with an Australian on each side:
- Georgia Cox (East Carolina) v Zara Sestan (Charleston Southern), 3:00am.
- Amelia Hobson (FGCU) v Jessica Petrie and Zoe Jackson (Indiana), 11:00am.
- Liz Murphy (UT Arlington) v Jelena Savic (Sacramento State), 11:30am.
- Jasmine Perry (Loyola Chicago) v Jasmine Fearne (Wright State), 12:00pm.
- Krystal Arnason (Idaho State) v Prasayus Notoa, Stella Sakalas and Vahayliah Seumanutafa (BYU), 1:00pm.
The rest of Wednesday's Australians:
- Sofia Ahmed: Stanislaus State at Cal State Bakersfield, 6:00am.
- Taia McMechan: Sacred Heart at Syracuse, 10:00am.
- Tabitha Betson and Monique Bobongie: Valparaiso at Michigan State, 10:30am.
- Jada Crawshaw: Mercyhurst at Seton Hall, 11:00am.
- Malia Tharpe, Riley Burd and Shorna Preston: Jacksonville at FIU, 11:00am.
- Amy Kurkowski, Ella Macleod, Phoebe Holmes and Olivia Tredrea: North Alabama at Mississippi State, 11:30am.
- Lara Somfai, Sarah Portlock and Jessie-May Hall: Oral Roberts at TCU, 11:30am.
- Ashlee Monaghan: Bradley at Wisconsin, 11:30am.
- Chyra Evans, Olivia Bradley and Emma Petrie: Eastern Washington at Utah, 12:00pm.
- Lily Carmody: Milwaukee at Northwestern, 12:00pm.
- Kira-May Filemu: La Sierra at Cal State Northridge, 1:00pm.
- Zoe Shaw: UC Santa Cruz at UC Santa Barbara, 1:00pm.
Every player is on our tracker of every Australian in NCAA Division I women's basketball.
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