FINAL SCORE: Idaho 94, Northern Arizona 71
RECORDS: Idaho (17-5, 8-1), Northern Arizona (7-16, 3-7)  
IDAHO LEADERS: Hope Hassmann (20 points), Kyra Gardner (seven rebounds), Hassmann (six assists), Gardner (five steals)
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NOTABLES:  

• This was the 13^th time this season the Vandals scored 80 or more points. Idaho is now 12-1 in those games
• This was the fourth time the Vandals have scored 90 or more points this season
• Idaho is the first team in the conference to reach 17 wins
• The Vandals are now 8-1 in ICCU Arena this season
• With 20 points, Hope Hassmann led the team in scoring for the fourth game in a row and the seventh game this season
• Hassmann is now at 973 career points
• The Vandals had five players score in double digits

MOSCOW, Idaho - The mighty Idaho Vandals Women's Basketball team (17-5, 8-1) kept its momentum rolling on Saturday, going wire-to-wire against the NAU Lumberjacks (7-16, 3-7) by a score of 94-71 in front of over 1,000 of the Vandal faithful in ICCU Arena.
 
Idaho's elite offense got rolling early in its annual Tribal Nations Game, as Ana Pinheiro got the scoring started just 15 seconds into the game, as she laid in two of her 14 to start the party. Hope Hassmann and Lorena Barbosa each contributed six points to the Vandal tally in the first quarter, and Idaho ended the period with a 24-16 lead.

Debora Dos Santos, who was playing in front of her family that was in attendance from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, scored the first four Vandal points of the second quarter. Dos Santos, who connected on her first seven attempts from the floor, went on to close the game with 18 points. Idaho's lead in the second expanded to as much as 16 following a bucket from Pinheiro, and the mighty Vandals had a 45-32 lead as the horn sounded for the half. 

The 32-point third quarter outburst was highlighted by an 18-4 run from Idaho to make the score 73-45, and the game was well in hand by then. Ana Beatriz Passos Alves da Silva scored a layup for the final Vandal points of the quarter, as the red-hot Vandals took a 77-51 lead to the fourth. 

Idaho went on to score 17 more points in the fourth to claim a 94-71 victory. Idaho has now won six games in a row and is 8-1 on its home floor. 

UP NEXT: Idaho stays home for what is shaping up to be the biggest week of the season, and will host Montana State on Thursday at 6 p.m. in ICCU Arena for what will be a battle for first place in the Big Sky.

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