FINAL SCORE: Idaho 89, UC Riverside 75

RECORDS: Idaho (4-1), UC Riverside (0-4)

IDAHO LEADERS: Ana Beatriz Passos Alves da Silva (18 points), Ana Pinheiro and Debora Reis Dos Santos (6 rebounds), Hope Hassmann (4 assists)

NOTABLES:

• This is Idaho's best start since the 2018-19 season
• Ana Beatriz Passos Alves da Silva scored a career-high 18 points
• This is the fourth game this season Lorena Barbosa has scored in double figures
• The Vandals outrebounded their opponents 48-30 and are now 3-1 when outrebounding their opponents
• Idaho shot an unbelievable 18-19 as a team
• The Vandals improve their overall record against UC Riverside to 8-4
• UI has scored at least 76 points in every single game this season

MOSCOW, Idaho – The Idaho Vandals women's basketball team cruised to an 89-75 win over UC Riverside in ICCU Arena on Friday night. 

The Vandals got out to a slow start, trailing 4-8 early on, but that script flipped quickly. Idaho went on a 12-0 run, capped by a Debora Reis Dos Santos and one to take a 16-8 lead and never looked back from there. Head coach Arthur Moreira's squad took a 32-19 lead to the second quarter. Those 32 points are the most scored by the Vandals in any first quarter this season.

It was more of the same for the silver and gold in the second frame with Idaho's lead ballooning up to as much as 28 following a Passos Alves da Silva jumper to make it 47-19, giving her two of her career-high 18 points. Idaho took a 52-26 lead to the locker rooms. 

The Idaho momentum wouldn't be stopped in the third. A layup by Dos Santos put the Vandals up by 32 with 6:04 left in the third. Both teams spent the rest of the period going back and forth trading buckets, but Ella Uriarte splashed a buzzer-beater to regain Idaho's 32-point advantage at the end of the third. 
UC Riverside made a late run, but ultimately Idaho had more than enough in the bank to record its fourth victory of the season, giving the Vandals their best start since the 2018-19 season.
 
UP NEXT: The Vandals wrap up their four-game homestand with a game against CSUN on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 1 p.m. That game can be seen on ESPN+. 

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