DETROIT, Mich. - The women's basketball team struggled with their shooting on Thursday night in a 64-52 loss at Wayne State in GLIAC action. The Panthers dropped their eighth straight game and are currently 7-18 overall and 1-14 in the GLIAC with three more games left in the season. Despite shooting just 25 percent in the first quarter, DU led 11-10 as the Warriors were held to 18.8 percent going 3-of-16. Three of DU's four field goals came from behind the arc as they went 3-of-6. Mary Liedel, Jaci Walker, and Makenna Bryant each canned a three-pointer in the quarter. Liedel's three came at 8:07 and the next basket was a Lillee Gustafson layup at 2:39. Walker's triple at 2:09 tied the game at eight and Bryant's bucket from deep came on the next possession for an 11-8 lead with 1:16 left in the quarter. 

Wayne State went on a 9-0 run to start the second quarter and take a 19-11 lead at the 7:28 mark. Maxine Moore scored seven of Wayne State's points in the run before Alexa Kolnitys' three-pointer at 7:10 stopped the run. The lead grew to nine points for the Warriors at 25-16 at the 3:13 mark but the Panthers battled back and scored seven straight points to cut the deficit to 25-23 with 50 seconds until halftime. The Warriors got the final bucket of the first half which was a three-pointer as time expired by Kate McArthur. The Warriors shot 38.9 percent in the second quarter while the Panthers shot 31.3 percent. Davenport was hurt by 10 first-half turnovers, but trailing by five points at the break was not too bad of a scenario.

Wayne State built a 37-25 lead in the third quarter in the first 3:45 before the media timeout. Rebecca Fugate had seven points for the Warriors to ignite the run. The lead hovered in double digits through the end of the quarter as WSU went into the final quarter with a 40-30 advantage. DU did a much better job of taking care of the ball in the third quarter with just one turnover.

Davenport started to make things interesting midway through the fourth quarter and trailed 48-43 after a Scout Nelson long-range make. The Wayne State lead was single digits but Davenport could not get closer than five points which occured again with 47 seconds left at 57-52. WSU made eight free throws in a row from that point to stretch the lead back to double figures for the final score of 64-52.

Nelson led DU with 14 points going 5-of-9 from the floor but had an uncharacteristic eight of the team's 17 turnovers in the game. Liedel finished with 12 points before fouling out and also had three rebounds. Gustafson narrowly missed another double-double with nine points and 14 rebounds. She also blocked four shots to tie a career-high set back on Nov. 19, 2022 against Tiffin. Her 14 rebounds was also one shy of her season-high of 15 against GVSU on Dec. 7. Claire Gregwer her sixth start of the season and finished with eight points, six rebounds, and two steals in 23-plus minutes.