PEORIA, Ill. – Mya Glanton scored a season-high 21 points Sunday afternoon and Del'Janae Williams nearly recorded a triple-double, propelling Indiana State to a 71-60 win over Bradley inside Renaissance Coliseum.
 
Williams finished with eight points, nine rebounds and nine assists, setting career-highs in both rebounds and assists. Anna McKendree finished with 14 points, while Chelsea Cain had a double-double for the second straight game with 11 points and 10 rebounds.
 
Indiana State used a 13-2 run spanning the end of the first quarter and start of the second to take the lead for good. The Sycamores led for the final 30:50, pushing their advantage to double-digits in the third and fourth quarters behind 15 second-half points from Glanton. Bradley made it a one-possession game late in the fourth, but three-point plays by Caitlin Anderson and Glanton inside the last two minutes and lights-out free throw shooting led the Sycamores to their third MVC win of the season, all of which have come on the road.
 
First Half
Cain opened the scoring with a pair of free throws and McKendree hit a 3-pointer a few possessions later to even the score at 5-all. Bradley scored seven straight points to take the lead, but Indiana State closed the quarter strong. Williams and Westerfeld made layups to kickstart an 11-2 run to close the quarter, which was followed by a 3-pointer by Finnegan. A jumper by Glanton inside the final minute of the quarter gave Indiana State a 16-14 lead heading into the second.
 
Glanton tacked on to the Sycamore lead with a putback layp to begin the second quarter, and McKendree added a fastbreak layup to give the Sycamores their largest lead of the half at 23-17. Bradley cut its deficit to one late in the half, but free throws by Hattie Westerfeld and Williams helped the Trees take a 31-28 lead into the intermission.
 
Second Half
Glanton came out of the locker room on fire with 10 points in the first five minutes of the third quarter. Indiana State opened the second half on an 8-0 run, with Glanton accounting for six of those points, taking a 39-28 lead in the process. Bradley cut the Sycamore lead down to six midway through the quarter, but baskets by Williams and Glanton pushed the advantage back into double-digits at 47-37 heading into the media timeout. Indiana State's lead grew to 52-40 following a 3-pointer by McKendree late in the quarter, but Bradley closed the period with five straight points as the Sycamores took a 52-45 lead into the fourth.
 
Bradley carried its momentum into the early stages of the fourth quarter, opening the period on an 8-2 run to cut Indiana State's lead to 54-53. McKendree made a layup off a backdoor feed from Glanton to end the run, and both Anderson and Glanton converted clutch three-point plays inside the final two minutes for the Blue and White. With Bradley forced to foul late, Indiana State knocked down 9-of-11 fourth quarter free throw attempts to seal its third conference win of the season, 71-60.
 
Inside the Numbers

• Indiana State's 71 points were its most in an MVC game this season. The Sycamores are 3-0 this season when scoring 70-plus points and 10-1 in head coach Chad Killinger's tenure when reaching the 70-point mark.
• Indiana State's 36 points in the paint were its most in an MVC game this season. The Sycamores improved to 6-2 this season when scoring 30-plus points in the paint.
• The third quarter proved to be a difference maker for the Sycamores. Indiana State scored 32 points in the first half, but followed with 21 points on a 9-for-14 shooting performance in the third quarter.
• All seven players who saw the floor for Indiana State in Sunday's game scored at least for points and grabbed at least two rebounds.
• Indiana State had the advantage in paint points (36-26), second chance points (12-10) and fastbreak points (12-7). The Sycamores' 12 second chance points came off 10 offensive rebounds, marking the fourth straight game that Indiana State pulled down double-digit boards on the offensive glass.

 
News & Notes

• Del'Janae Williams finished two points, one rebound and one assist shy of becoming just the second player in program history to record a triple-double. Amy Walker recorded the only triple-double in program history with 13 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists against Illinois State on Feb. 18, 1995.
• Mya Glanton's season-high 21 points also marked her first double-digit scoring game of the season. Glanton, who had three 20-point, 10-rebound games last year, came into Sunday's game averaging under four points per game.
• Indiana State went the first 14 games of this season without a double-double, but has seen one player record a double-double in each of the last three games. Anna McKendree had 14 points and 10 assists against Drake, while Chelsea Cain had double-doubles in both ends of the Sycamores' current two-game road trip (16 points and 11 rebounds at Illinois State, 11 points and 10 rebounds at Bradley).
• Indiana State played just seven players in Sunday's win, the first time this season that fewer than nine players saw game time for the Sycamores.
• Indiana State snapped a three-game losing streak with Sunday's win. The Sycamores have also now won three straight games over Bradley, recording a sweep of the season series last year and taking Sunday's game in Peoria.

 
Up Next
Indiana State begins a three-game homestand Friday at 6 p.m. against Belmont. The game against the Bruins is the first of two games during Alumni Weekend for the Sycamores.
 
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