Indiana women’s basketball guard Sara Scalia took home a title.
Scalia, with 19 points in the final round, won the Hanes Women’s 3-point Championship Thursday night at Grand Canyon’s Global Credit Union Arena. The fifth-year senior scored 21 points in the first round, the second-highest total in the round. Scalia put up 17 points in the second round, which put her in a three-way tie with Missouri’s Hayley Frank and Syracuse’s Dyaisha Fair, and the IU guard advanced with Frank on a tiebreaker of most total shots in in the round.
After capturing the women’s title, Scalia faced off against the men’s champion, Nebraska’s Kesei Tominaga, in the Skechers Battle of the Champions. But the Cornhusker was too much for Scalia, as Tominaga came away with the 20-16 victory.
Scalia is the seventh basketball player, men or women, to compete in the college 3-point contest. She’s only the second IU women’s player to compete, joining Aulani Sinclair in 2013 — and both won.
IU men’s basketball’s past participants in the event are Calbert Cheaney (1993), Brian Evans (1996), A.J. Guyton (2000), Jordan Hulls (2013), and Yogi Ferrell (2016).
.@sara_scalia14 just went out there and won it, why not 🤷♀️
Sara is your @Hanes Originals Soft Touch Women’s 3-Point Champion‼@StateFarm | @CollegeSlam pic.twitter.com/KSOn00Yb9f
— College Slam (@CollegeSLAM) April 5, 2024
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