Wichita State’s women’s basketball team fell behind by seven points early in Friday night’s game against Drake, then the Shockers went on the offensive.
Not just an uphill, constant rally from a deficit WSU could never quite erase, but superior effort that led to numerous offensive rebounds – 19 to be exact.
The Shockers, though, could never master the defensive side. Drake scored 25 points in the first and third quarters, and leading scorer Lizzy Wendell dominated the fourth quarter in an 83-78 Drake win in the Missouri Valley Conference opener at Koch Arena.
Drake built the lead to eight in the first quarter, and briefly in the second, but WSU never got closer than three before Drake, which shot 52.