{"id":296369,"date":"2025-11-20T05:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296369\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:24:12","slug":"womens-basketball-wins-16th-straight-battle-of-the-boulevard-over-rival-lipscomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296369\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Basketball Wins 16th-Straight Battle of the Boulevard Over Rival Lipscomb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ohio_state_logo.png\" alt=\"Ohio State\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>vs. Ohio State<\/p>\n<p>11\/24\/2025 | 10 AM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Nov. 24 (Mon) \/ 10 AM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ohio_state_logo.png\" alt=\"Ohio State\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        vs.\u00a0Ohio State&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/opponent-history\/ohio-state\/185\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 In the 79th edition of the Battle of the Boulevard Wednesday evening, the Belmont University women&#8217;s basketball team defeated Lipscomb University 80-60 inside the Curb Event Center behind a 48-point first half and five double-figure scorers. Winning their 16th-straight versus the rival Bisons (2-4), the Bruins (3-2) built a 30-point first-half lead and led for all but an even opening two minutes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA 19-2 scoring run, which included a 17-0 run, in the second quarter set the tone for the remainder of the game and Belmont held off Lipscomb in the second half. The Bisons outpaced the Bruins 40-32 in the second half behind 65.2 percent (15-of-23) shooting, including going 5-for-9 (55.6 percent) from beyond the arc.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBelmont went on an incredible 22-0 run following a 2-2 tie to take a commanding 24-2 lead with two minutes to go in the first quarter.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFueled by nine early points from sophomore forward <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/hilary-fuller\/4610\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4610\" target=\"_blank\">Hilary Fuller<\/a>, the Bruins led 26-10 after one quarter of play. Belmont connected on 12 of its first 19 shots (63.2 percent).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFree throws from junior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/jailyn-banks\/4607\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4607\" target=\"_blank\">Jailyn Banks<\/a> began the Bruins&#8217; 19-2 second-quarter run and sophomore guard <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/sanaa-tripp\/4614\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4614\" target=\"_blank\">Sanaa Tripp<\/a> knocked down a three-pointer to make it 44-15 with 1:18 left in the half. Fellow sophomore guard <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/quinn-eubank\/4608\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4608\" target=\"_blank\">Quinn Eubank<\/a> converted her second free throw following a Lipscomb foul down low on Tripp&#8217;s trey, giving Belmont its largest lead of the evening at 45-15.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBoth Fuller and Banks hit jumpers to close out the first two quarters with Fuller finishing the first and Banks putting the Bruins up 48-20 heading into the locker room.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTripp scored seven points in the second period as Belmont outscored the Bisons 22-10 in the frame.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bruins shot 52.8 percent (19-of-36) in the first half with Tripp scoring all 12 of her points across the initial 20 minutes on a perfect 5-for-5 from the field. At the break, Belmont already had 23 points off the bench and 23 points off 14 Lipscomb turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Season Tickets<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSeason tickets, which include all Belmont women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s basketball home games, are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/belmont.evenue.net\/list\/ST\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BelmontBruins.com\/Tickets<\/a> or calling 615-460-BALL. Flex pack plans for the 2025-26 season are also on sale and can be purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/belmont.evenue.net\/event\/A26\/ABBLFLEX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHow to Follow<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow Belmont women&#8217;s basketball on social media &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BelmontWBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BelmontWBB<\/a>\u00a0on X, formerly Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/belmontwbb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@belmontwbb<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/belmontwmnbb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belmont Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook &#8211; for complete coverage of the Bruins. Stay up to date with all of Belmont&#8217;s athletic programs via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/belmont-bruins\/id933521621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official app of the Belmont Bruins<\/a>, available both in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>#ItsBruinTime<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: vs. Ohio State 11\/24\/2025 | 10 AM &#13; Nov. 24 (Mon) \/ 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}