The Guru’s NCAAW Local/National Roundup: Fantroy Grabs 20 Boards in Delaware Win at American; No. 5 LSU Reaches 100 Fifth Straight Time

 By Mel Greenberg @womhoopsguru

There was only one local team in action Monday night as the new week got under way and Delaware evened its record at 2-2 with a 68-57 victory at American U. (1-2) in Washington, D.C., as Lay Fantroy had a booming double double with 16 points, shooting 7-of-14, while thundering defensively with 20 rebounds.

The result on the boards from a team standpoint was Delaware grabbing a 43-29 advantage, including 18-7 on the offensive glass.

The 20 board-work is the first achieved since Sarah Jenkins became coach of the Blue Hens and fifth-most in program history. The last 20 total was achieved by Nicole Enabosi on December 22, 2017, against Loyola of Md.

Kailah Correa was the high scorer for the visitors with 18 points.

Ande’a Cherisier scored 15 points, while dealing four assists and grabbing seven boards.

Delaware is off until Nov. 26,

On Tuesday, the first of two key games for Temple, the Owls are at Atlantic 10 favorite Richmond at 6 p.m. on ESPN+ in Virginia and then visit Villanova for the Wildcats’ first and Temple’s second Big Five pod contest, repeating last season’s championship won by the Owls.

Following Friday’s win over La Salle, Temple clinches the championship round again by beating the Wildcats, who are off all week after Sunday’s win at JMU.

La Salle hosts D-2 West Chester at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN+ at the John E. Glaser Arena.

On Wednesday, Drexel is at Lehigh at 6 p.m. on ESPN+ up at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa., on ESPN+, Princeton at 7 p.m. becomes the last of the Guru’s 13 openers at home, hosting Rice at Jadwin Gym on ESPN+.

Rider visits Navy at 7 p.m.at Annapolis, Md., on ESPN+.

And taking it until Thursday, Saint Joseph’s tries to bounce back from Sunday’s loss at home to Penn State, visiting Columbia at 11 a.m. on ESPN+ off Broadway on New York City’s Upper East Side.

Rutgers at 7 p.m. facing its toughest opponent to date by comparison visits Auburn in Alabama on SECN+, while Lafayette at 7 p.m. will try to make it three straight victories when the Leopards play Wagner at 7 p.m. on Staten Island, N.Y., the game is on NEC Front Row.

The National Scene

The schedule was light Monday night but we’ll use the occasion to also come back and review the weekend act since we split the locals off into their own recap.

On Monday, No. 5 LSU in an in-state game and the lone one featuring a ranked team beat host Tulane 101-71 in New Orleans.

The Tigers got to 5-0 as as Flau’jae Johnson scored 22 points, and South Carolina transfer MiLaysia Fulwiley scofred 20 with six assists.

Mikaylah Williams added 16 points, Zakiya Johnson scored 14 and Amiya Joiner scored 12 as LSU tied a school record with their fifth straight 100-point win in beating the Green Wave (2-2) of the American Conference that’s a rival of Temple.

Tulane’s Mecailin Marshall scored 20 points.

Elsewhere Maine topped visiting Stonehill 79-53, the Black Bears (1-3) getting their first win in four games and Adrianna Smith shooting 66.7 percent for the winners and scoring 26 points with 13 rebounds.

Longwood of the Big South won 71-62 at home against visiting George Washington.

Reminiscent of longtime Villanova coach Harry Perretta doing his retirement tour after announcing the end was coming at the outset of his last season, Northwestern (4-0) got a 79-72 nearby win at DePaul (1-3) in Chicago for Father Judge grad Joe McKeown, whose leaving the Wildcats and was given gifts in pre-game ceremonies at Wintrust Arena with retired Blue Demons coach Doug Bruno on hand to join his former player and successor Jill Pizzotti.

On Sunday, Navy (3-0) stunned visiting Florida 69-54 as Zanai Barnett-Gay, the Patriot League preseason player of the year at home in Annapolis, Md., scored 22 points for the Midshipmen’s first win over an SEC opponent since 1998.

Division 3 Scranton won 69-63 at Pitt of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Elizabeth Bennett scoring 15 for the winners while the host Panthers fell to 2-2.

In a battle of ranked teams, then-No. 17 TCU (4-0) won at No. 10 N.C. State (2-2) in Raleigh, N.C., as Cal transfer Marta Suarez scored 26 points and on Monday the Horned Frogs bolted up to No. 10 in the new AP women’s Top 25.

Tilda Trygger scored 15 for the host Wolfpack.

In the annual Raising the B.A.R. Tourney at California (4-1) in Berkeley, the host Bears got 17 points from Lulu Twidale in a championship 76-65 win over reigning Ivy Madness tournament champion Harvard (2-3), which was led by Abigail Wright with 23 points.

On Monday, besides the leap by TCU in the new AP Poll, Michigan after besting then-No. 18 Notre Dame Saturday in the Shamrock Classic in Detroit, shot up from 14th to 6th, the Wolverines’ second highest ranking in the 50-year history of the rankings.

No. 1 UConn, the defending NCAA champions, Sunday in the Huskies’ (4-0) second home in Hartford walloped Ohio State 100-68 as sophomore Sarah Strong had 29 points and 13 boards with seven assists, five steals and three blocks on the visiting Buckeyes (2-1) while Azzi Fudd scored 19 with seven assists.

Freshman Blanca Quinonez from Ecuador came off the bench to score 18 points and Wisconsin transfer Serah Williams scored 12 as Hall of Famer Geno Auriemma extended his NCAA record win total for both men and women to 1,254.

Several WNBA coaches were on hand to scout, including new Dallas coach Jose Fernandez, who left a long stint at South Florida to coach the Wings with reigning rookie of the year and former UConn star Paige Bueckers and Villanova grad Maddy Siegrist.

Former New York Liberty coach Sandy Brondello, now with the new Toronto Tempo, which comes on line with Portland this coming summer, was also in the house.

UConn meets Michigan Friday night at 8 p.m. on FOX at the Basketball Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn.

In the first Real SC affair, No. 2 South Carolina (4-0) at the WNBA Los Angeles Sparks’ Crypto.com Arena formerly known as the Staples Center, defeated then-No. Eight Southern Cal 69-52 as Raven Johnson and Tessa Johnson each scored 14 points for Dawn Staley’s Gamecocks.

Kennedy Smith scored 12 points and Kara Dunn scored 10 for the Trojans.

Jazzy Davidson, a freshman, scored eight on 4-11 from the field with four turnovers after collecting 21 points in a previous win over N.C. State.

Saint Joseph’s transfer Laura Ziegler had 17 points and 10 rebounds for No. 22 Louisville, which moved up a spot after taking a 65-54 win at Clemson in an early ACC opener Sunday.

The Cardinals are 15-0 over the Tigers after leaving the old Big East for the ACC in 2014-15.

Ziegler was 5-of-11 with 7-of-8 from the line.

Darianna Littlepage-Buggs had 26 points and 11 boards for then-No. 7 Baylor winning at home in Waco, Texas, 99-43 over Le Moyne.

No. 6 Oklahoma (4-1), which lost at UCLA last Monday to fall to No. 8 in the new poll, got 21 points and 10 rebounds from Raegan Beers in a 95-32 win at Western Carolina.

No. 4 Texas (4-0), which will tie unranked Stanford for most poll appearances in second behind Tennessee if the Cardinal does not get voted in second week, cruised to a 111-45 win over Texas Southern.

In this week’s poll, UConn made its 500th Top 5 appearance.

On Tuesday night among the ranked teams seeing action, Michigan hosts Binghamton at 7 p.m. on the B1G+, while at the same time No. 20 Kentucky hosts Purdue on the SEC Network, No. 13 Ole Miss at 8 p.m. visits Memphis at 8 p.m. on ESPN+ and Southern Cal, now No. 11, hosts Portland in the Galen Center at 10 p.m. on B1G+ in Los Angeles.

On Wednesday No. 18 Oklahoma State is at St. John’s on Long Island at 7 p.m. on ESPN+.

And that’s the report.