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Women’s Basketball: Owls fall to Western Kentucky 72-69 in overtime thriller

This marks the team’s fifth consecutive loss, and 11th over the last 12 contests.

Photo of Rita Pleskevich driving towards the basket against Western Kentucky on Feb. 10, 2022.

FAU women’s basketball (5-18, 1-11 C-USA) suffered a heartbreaking 72-69 defeat in overtime against the Western Kentucky University (WKU) Hilltoppers (16-7, 9-3 C-USA) Thursday evening at the Burrow at Abessinio Court.

“We weren’t able to close it out [at] the end of regulation,” head coach Jennifer Sullivan said. “I thought box outs hurt us late and crash the boards. We will regroup, but I think we have shown that we can compete with anyone in our league, so we’ll just get back to practicing and trying to finish games.