Even not counting her 27-point performance at Indiana on Nov. 20 that helped her be named Monday the College Sports Madness player of the week for the Southern Conference, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior Keiana Gilbert was named Tuesday the SoCon women’s basketball player of the week for games of Nov. 21-27. She totaled 41 points and 20 rebounds in three weekend wins in the Challenge in Music City and was voted the event’s most valuable player. She shot 53 percent from the field in Nashville.
» The Bryan College basketball teams both won at home Tuesday in Appalachian Athletic Conference games against Bluefield. The Lady Lions won 69-57 before the Lions prevailed 64-62 as Oteriah Lee provided 17 points and six assists and Brice Cusick and Caleb Tuck scored 13 points each. Karli Combs scored 22 on 6-of-11 3-point shooting for the Lady Lions, who got 16 points, eight rebounds and four assists from Deandra Luna.
» The Sewanee women’s basketball team wiped out a 16-point deficit to take visiting Emory to overtime but ultimately fell 84-80 on Tuesday. Bella Taylor scored 15 points in the fourth period and 29 for the game for Sewanee (2-3), with seven rebounds and four steals. Hannah McCormack had 16 points and five steals, and Allison Hitchcock scored 14 points. The Eagles are 4-1.
» Birmingham-Southern’s women edged visiting Covenant 73-69 as Emilee Olsen had 27 points, seven rebounds and four steals on Tuesday for the Lady Panthers (2-2). Joanna Smith had 19 points and 16 rebounds for Covenant (1-3), which got 12 points each from Taylor Robinson and Bekah Walter with seven rebounds from Robinson.
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