MOLINE, Ill. - Graduate guard Hannah Noe scored a game-high 23 points as the University of Evansville women's basketball team dropped its 2018 Missouri Valley Conference opener to Bradley, 77-49, in Moline, Ill. on Thursday night.
"Our team had a really good week of practice going into the tournament. You play a team like Bradley that's a really tough opponent for us considering what happened the first two times we played they won by an average of 51.5 points. We knew the start of the game was going to be critical for us and I actually thought our players did a really nice job with the gameplan and our execution and we had the lead early and I told them that if we could do that, hopefully we could just keep building the confidence on both ends and then hopefully at some point Bradley would start getting a little tight and a little nervous considering the situation and what has happened in the prior games but they went on a run there towards the end of the first and just kind of took control of the game and we just didn't have an answer for them," said Aces head coach Matt Ruffing.