{"id":194558,"date":"2026-02-26T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194558\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:43:12","slug":"penn-state-rallies-to-defeat-usc-women-despite-kara-dunns-24-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194558\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State rallies to defeat USC women, despite Kara Dunn’s 24 points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kara Dunn had 24 points and Jazzy Davidson had 22, but Penn State rallied to defeat the USC women, 85-82<\/a> on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n

The Trojans led 62-58, early in the fourth quarter and 70-68 with 5:35 to play before Kiyomi McMiller and Moriah Murray made key shots to give Penn State the lead. <\/p>\n

Penn State extended its lead to 79-74 after a 15-foot jumper by McMiller. The teams exchanged buckets until Dunn hit a three-pointer with 14 seconds left, pulling the Trojans back within two at 82-80. McMiller was fouled immediately after the inbounds pass, and made both her free throws. Davidson scored on a layup to make it 84-82 with four seconds remaining. Vitoria Santana was fouled and made one of two free throws with three seconds remaining, but USC<\/a> was unable to get a shot off after that.<\/p>\n

Dunn made a season-high six three-pointers and had six rebounds and three assists. Davidson had her 25th consecutive double-figure scoring performance and sixth straight 20-point game. Kennedy Smith had 19 points along with six rebounds, four assists, two steals and a block.<\/p>\n

With the loss, USC drops to 17-11 overall and 9-8 in Big Ten play<\/a>. Wednesday was Penn State\u2019s second win all-time and first win against USC since Jan. 6, 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kara Dunn had 24 points and Jazzy Davidson had 22, but Penn State rallied to defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6265,32732,30250,69221,90894,90893,48,52,51,5814,47,50,49,8937,1417,7556,9018,90895,7553,48360,20295],"class_list":{"0":"post-194558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-assist","9":"tag-free-throw","10":"tag-jazzy-davidson","11":"tag-kara-dunn","12":"tag-key-shot","13":"tag-kiyomi-mcmiller","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-headlines","16":"tag-la-news","17":"tag-lead","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-penn-state","22":"tag-point","23":"tag-rebound","24":"tag-second","25":"tag-second-win-all-time","26":"tag-three-pointer","27":"tag-usc-woman","28":"tag-wednesday-night"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}