NORMAL — What Valparaiso coach Mary Evans called “a recipe for disaster” cooked up the perfect Illinois State women’s basketball Senior Day on Sunday at Redbird Arena.
While success from beyond the 3-point arc proved beyond the Crusaders’ capabilities, the Redbirds happily gobbled up the rebounds and demonstrated long range prowess of their own in a 74-53 Missouri Valley Conference victory before a crowd of 897.
“This was a Valpo team that gave us everything we could handle at their place,” ISU coach Kristen Gillespie said. “For the most part, our focus was there. With the amount of threes they shoot, we did a better job getting to the ball first.