GAME DETAILS
Duquesne 56, Saint Louis 52
Saturday, March 5, 2016 | 1:30 p.m. (ET)
Richmond Coliseum | Richmond, Virginia
THE BASICS
--Olivia Jakubicek scored a season-high 15 points, but a late-fourth-quarter spurt gave No. 3 seed Duquesne a 56-52 victory over No. 2 seed Saint Louis Saturday afternoon in an Atlantic 10 Conference Championship semifinal game.
--The Billikens (24-7), who saw their winning streak halted at six, were playing in their first conference tournament semifinal. SLU tied Duquesne and George Washington for the A-10 regular-season title.
--Saint Louis will await a postseason tournament invitation. Duquesne (27-4) meets No. 1 seed George Washington in Sunday's tournament final.
HOW IT HAPPENED
--Saint Louis trailed 38-35 after three quarters, but the second of Jakubicek's career-high three 3-pointers on the Billikens' initial fourth-quarter possession tied the game.
--After Duquesne scored the next five points, SLU went on a 10-2 run. The spurt culminated with Jackie Kemph's three-point play and another Jakubicek trey on consecutive possessions for a 48-45 Billiken lead.
--Saint Louis led 50-47 following a bucket by Kemph with 3:26 to play, but those were the last meaningful points the Billikens would score. Duquesne's 9-0 run made it 56-50 with 11 seconds left, and a SLU basket at the buzzer accounted for the final score.
--The Billikens rebounded from a horrible start that saw them fall behind 9-0. They trailed 17-13 after one quarter, then outscored the Dukes 12-4 in the second period to take a 25-21 halftime lead.
--Duquesne tied it at 29 with four minutes gone in the third before baskets by Jakubicek and Jordyn Frantz and two Kemph free throws put Saint Louis on top 35-31.
--The Dukes concluded the quarter with a 7-0 run to grab a three-point advantage.
BILLIKEN NOTABLES
--For a second consecutive year, the Billikens have set school season records for 3-pointers and assists. SLU has 191 treys after connecting 190 times from beyond the arc a year ago, and 525 assists after tallying 524 in 2014-15.
--The Billikens pulled down 18 offensive rebounds, one short of their season high, and earned a 42-34 overall edge on the glass.
--Jakubicek's 15 points tied for game-high honors, and she led the Billikens with eight rebounds including a game-high-tying three offensive boards.
--Kemph scored 11 points, going 5-of-5 from the free throw line to finish the tournament 17-of-17 from the stripe. She also registered a game-high five assists.
--Kemph moved into third place on SLU's career assists list (392). She also took over second place on the Bills' single-season charts for points (504) and free throws made (140), in addition to padding her single-season school record for assists (218).
--Frantz hauled in a career-high seven rebounds to go with eight points (4-of-8 FG).
--Sadie Stipanovich scored eight points and had a career-high-tying and game-high-tying three steals.
DUQUESNE LEADERS
--Kadri-Ann Lass, 15 points, nine rebounds; April Robinson, 12 points, four assists, three steals; Deva'Nyar Workman, 10 points, eight rebounds, four assists; Amadea Szamosi, nine points, seven rebounds; Emilie Gronas, six rebounds.
