Box Score Olivet Nazarene 110, Illinois Wesleyan 106 (OT) - Box Score

BOURBONNAIS, Ill. - The Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team made a terrific comeback to send Olivet Nazarene into overtime before losing 110-106 in Bourbonnais on Monday, Dec. 13.

The Titans, whose 106 points is the sixth most in school history, corralled a school-record 72 rebounds but committed 52 turnovers in the loss. The Tigers had 47 rebounds and 26 turnovers. The old record for rebounds was 69 against Olivet Nazarene on Nov. 24, 2009.

IWU trailed by as many as 17 points at 39-22 with 6:28 to play in the first half, then rallied to trail by only 13 at halftime at 52-39. But Illinois Wesleyan (now 5-3 this season) scored the first 11 points of the second half to close to within 52-50.
IWU never got closer than two in the second half until tying the game at 95-95 with 35 seconds left in the game.
The Tigers (9-3) scored the first six points in the overtime and never trailed after that.

Senior Stacey Arlis, the current College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin "Player of the Week", equalled her career high with 26 points to lead five IWU players in double figures and was 12 of 20 from the field. Senior Nikki Preston scored 19 points and grabbed a game-high (and career-best) 13 rebounds, sophomore Melissa Gardner came off the bench to score 15, senior Hope Schulte scored 14 and junior Olivia Lett had 13.

Danielle Tolbert had 23 and Simone Coburn scored 20 for the Tigers, who average 100.8 points per game.

The Titans shot 51.9 percent from the field (41 of 79), connected on four of 15 3-pointers (26.7 percent) and made 20 of their 31 free throw tries (64.5 percent). The Tigers hiked up 107 shots from the floor and made 40 of those (37.4 percent), while making nine of 39 from beyond the 3-point arc (23.1 percent) and 21 of 37 free throws (56.8 percent).

The Titans host Loras at 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 18 at the Shirk Center.