Highlights:
- Tuuli Menna (Helsinki, Finland / Richmond) recorded a career-high 13 rebounds at Niagara, besting all players. She pulled down eight on the defensive end.
- Both Candela Abejon (Gijon, Spain / USC) and Kania Pollock (Queens, NY / The Mary Louis Acacdemy) scored 13 for Manhattan. It was a season-high for Abejon, who added three rebounds, two blocks and two assists.
- Eleven of Pollock's total points came in the first quarter, where she hit three baskets from beyond the arc to help the Jaspers to a 20-18 lead at the end of the period. She went 5-10 from the floor and 3-4 from three for the game.
- Manhattan shot 50 percent as a team in the first half, including going 5-9 from three-point range. Though dropping to 33.3 percent in the second, the Jaspers went up by as many as seven in the quarter, and took a 30-27 lead into the locker room at halftime.
- Though Niagara overtook the Jaspers in the third, they were up just two at the end of the period (42-40), and again halfway through the final quarter (51-49). But a 5-0 run by the Purple Eagles over the next three minutes widened the gap to 56-49 with a minute to play.
- Foul trouble also became a factor in the second half, as both Pollock and sophomore center Courtney Warley (West Chester, PA / Bishop Shanahan) fouled out of the contest. Manhattan suffered a 24-9 foul disadvantage, putting the Purple Eagles at the line 20 times, where they converted 13. Manhattan shot just four foul shots in the game, hitting two.
- Niagara shot 39.3 percent in the second half, including a 54.4 percent performance in the fourth, where they scored 19 points. In comparison, the Jaspers shot just 26 percent in the second half of the game.
- Jai Moore led Niagara with 15 points, while her teammate Emerald Ekpiteta put in 13 and pulled down 12 boards.
The Jaspers will head to Siena on Friday, January 11 for an 11:00 a.m. tip-off with the Saints.