JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 2, 2025) – East Tennessee State University women's basketball scored 103 points, its best offensive showing since 2006 and first 100-point game since 2011, in a 103-55 rout of Tusculum to open 2025.

The elite performance marks the 18th all-time 100-point game for ETSU women's basketball, and tied for the sixth-highest scoring game in Buccaneer history. The last time ETSU scored 100 points was in a 100-62 win over Mercer on Jan. 31, 2011. The last time the Bucs scored 103 or more points was on Nov. 21, 2006, in a 104-87 win over App State, and the last time ETSU scored exactly 103 points was on Jan. 10, 2000, in a 103-65 win over Georgia Southern.

The 48-point margin of victory is the fourth highest in ETSU history, and the second highest of the Mock Brown era. ETSU throttled Virginia Lynchburg 95-26 for a 69 point margin of victory on Dec. 4, 2022, the largest in program history. Besides the 69-point win, the only games with a larger margin of victory came on Jan. 5, 1994 against Covenant (60 points, 103-43), and on Dec. 12, 1981 against Mars Hill (49 points, 102-53). 

Sophomore guard Brecken Snotherly led ETSU with a career-high 19 points for her first double-digit game of the season. Redshirt junior guard Paige Lyons scored a season-high 12 and junior guard Gemma Grüttner Bacoul added a career-high nine points as all 11 Bucs that played scored in the contest. Senior guard Kendall Folley pitched in with 15 points, six assists and three steals.

The Buccaneers jumped out of the gates quickly, with junior forward Meghan Downing tallying an and-1 11 seconds into the game. Snotherly made back-to-back shots, including one from 3-point range, and senior guard Kendall Folley added a triple as ETSU extended an early 11-2 lead. Tusculum battled back, going on a pair of 7-0 runs in the quarter. 

However, a 10-0 run that featured five different Bucs scoring in between the Tusculum runs helped ETSU end the first quarter up 25-18.

Ni'Kiah Chesterfield kept Tusculum afloat in the second quarter, tallying all 14 of her points in the first half. The starters carried the load for the Bucs in the second quarter, combining for all but four of the 24 ETSU points in the frame, and the Bucs took a 47-32 lead into the break.

The Blue & Gold opened the third quarter with a 14-0 run behind six points from 5th year guard Courtney Moore, but Tusculum kept scoring, hitting two 3-pointers en route to a 17 point frame for the visitors.

The Bucs' defensive intensity resumed its normal focus in the final frame, as ETSU allowed just six points to Tusculum in the quarter. The shots from behind the arc also started falling, as the Bucs, who were just 4-for-23 from long range in the first three quarters, closed the game 6-for-10 from deep.

Freshman guard Lucy Hood hit a pair of 3-pointers to go with makes from Grüttner Bacoul, Moore, Folley and freshman guard Carmen Richardson.

Grüttner Bacoul knocked down the shot that gave ETSU triple figures with a wide open jumper from the left wing with 2:04 to play, and Hood hit the final 3-pointer and shot of the game for the Bucs to give ETSU the 103-55 win.

Next, ETSU begins SoCon play with a road trip to UNC Greensboro at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 9. 

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