“For young athletes, it’s great for them to realize we want to celebrate them being involved in athletics,” Pizzotti said. “In addition, we celebrated the Women’s Athletic Association of DePaul. In the early 60’s, there was a group of females that got together and wanted to create opportunities for women to play athletics through physical education. Then they started competing in the Chicago-land area and that’s what turned us into varsity athletics in 1973, 1974. I think it’s great that DePaul works to acknowledge the work of these pioneers from the 60’s, and also to celebrate youth involved in women’s athletics.”

“She was very tough to defend, I give her props,” Junior guard Taylor Johnson-Matthews said. “But I’m also tough to defend.”

“You got to continue to work hard, you got to get open and shoot the ball when you’re open,” Interim head coach Jill Pizzotti said. “Some of our players are better 3-point shooters than others, some of our players are better drivers than shooters, so playing to your individual strengths. Then just playing with it, if you have trouble making some shots early, you just have to stay with it.”

Since the start of the fourth quarter, Seton Hall has made 10 points, while DePaul has only made three points. Jada Eads, Faith Masonius and Savannah Catalon of Seton Hall have a combined 48 points. The highest scorer on DePaul, Taylor Johnson-Matthews, has 22 points.

Even though Seton Hall still leads by five points, the Blue Demons have cut the 13-point halftime lead down. DePaul has had quite a few free throw opportunities this quarter, but they haven’t made many. They’re currently 13-of-21 from the free-throw line (62%).

Thanks to Taylor Johnson-Matthews making two 3-pointers, DePaul has made nine points so far in the third quarter. Seton Hall has only made four points. 4:45 left in the third quarter.

Seton Hall had a 7-0 run in the last two minutes of the first half. 11 of their points have been made off of turnovers.

Taylor Johnson-Matthews is currently the highest scorer with 10 points; Jorie Allen only has four points. This is the 13th time this season where DePaul has scored 30 points or less in the first half.

While DePaul is behind by eight, they have been making more of their shots. They have currently made 29% (6-of-21) of their field goals. Seton Hall, on the other hand, has made one of their last six shots, which leaves them making 33% of their shots (8-of-27). 5:12 left in the second quarter.

The first quarter ends with a deep 3-pointer made by Jada Eads of Seton Hall, who currently has half of their points. DePaul has only made one 3-pointer, compared to Seton Hall who has three 3-pointers.

The Blue Demons have only made two of their last 11 shots. Johnson has five of DePaul’s nine points; exactly two minutes left in the quarter.

With a little less than five minutes left in the first quarter, DePaul has only made 18% of their shots (2-of-11). Seton Hall has made 40% (4-of-10), six of those points being made from two 3-pointers.

DePaul:

• Taylor-Johnson Matthews, Guard
• Sumer Lee, Guard
• Shakara McCline, Guard
• Meg Newman, Forward
• Jorie Allen, Forward

Seton Hall:

• Savannah Catalon, Guard
• Jada Eads, Guard
• Amari Wright, Guard
• Faith Masonius, Forward
• Yaya Lops, Forward

Tip-off between DePaul’s Meg Newman and Seton Hall’s Yaya Lops is won by Seton Hall.

The game starts NOW!

Freshman guard Ally Timm, who hasn’t played since Nov. 9 against Princeton, is warming up with the team — but she will not play in today’s game. She played 16 minutes and scored nine points against Princeton.