Women's Basketball Loses At Michigan Tech 70-57

The Northwood University women's basketball team dropped a 70-57 contest at Michigan Tech Thursday night (February 21).

Northwood is now 11-15 overall, 9-11 in the GLIAC.  Michigan Tech improves to 17-7 overall, 15-5 in the GLIAC.

The opening half of the game was extremely close – neither team led by more than three points in the opening 20 minutes.  MTU eventually took a 24-23 lead to the locker room.  Neither team shot well in the opening half.  NU finished at 30.8 percent (8-26) while Michigan Tech finished at 29.6 percent (8-27).

The score was tied 32-32 at the first media timeout of the second half when the Huskies went big run to put the game away.  At the second media timeout, Michigan Tech led 51-33.  The run for MTU eventually reached 21-1.  Northwood got down as many as 20, but fought back to trail by nine with less than three minutes to go.  MTU's Sam Hoyt responded by knocking down a triple as the shot clock expired to make the lead 12 and put the game away.

For the game, Northwood shot 35.7 percent (20-56) while MTU finished at 38.2 percent (21-55).  The 3-point line was the key to the game, as Michigan Tech shot 7-12 overall (58.3 percent) while Northwood finished at 1-12 (8.3 percent).

Freshman Jordyn Nurenberg (St. John's, Mich.) led Northwood with 18 points off the bench.  She was 6-10 from the floor and 6-8 from the foul line.  Kaitlin Susan (Grand Rapids, Mich./Byron Center)  added 12 points.

Northwood will travel to Northern Michigan Saturday (February 21).  Game time is set for 3 p.m.