Senior guard Feyonda Fitzgerald needed one assist heading into Wednesday’s game to become the program’s all-time assists leader. She got that assist with two minutes, 47 seconds left in the first quarter and had eight more to blow past the previous record.
Fitzgerald scored a game-high 22 points to lead the Owls (12-3, 3-0 American Athletic Conference) to a 78-47 blowout victory against East Carolina. She fell one assist shy of her fifth straight double-double.
“I always wanted to break the record,” Fitzgerald said. “But a record like this is all on my teammates, I gave them the ball and they finished when they had to.