Release courtesy of Gettysburg Athletic Communications

THE FACTS
No. 1 New York Univ. (29-0) 76, No. 10 Gettysburg (28-3) 51
What: NCAA Div. III women's basketball tournament quarterfinal
When: Saturday, Mar. 15
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.

THE SKINNY STORY
NYU started the second half on a 12-4 run in the first 2:26 of the third quarter to open up a 12-point lead and ultimately defeat Gettysburg 76-51 in the quarterfinal round of the 2025 NCAA Div. III women's basketball championship.

THE LEADERS
• Shinya Lee (Rochester, N.Y./Holderness Prep School) led the Bullets with 14 points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots.

FOR THE FOES
• Caroline Peper led the defending national champion Violets back to the national semifinals with 29 points.
• Natalie Bruns added 16 points, nine rebounds and nine assists. She also had two steals and a blocked shot.

THE REST OF THE STORY
• Five points from Caroline Peper keyed a 7-0 start for NYU in the game's first 1:16. Out of a timeout, a Shinya Lee putback and Jameson Mott (Evergreen, Colo./Evergreen) 3-pointer closed the deficit to two with 7:58 showing. The Violets pushed the lead out to eight with another 6-0 burst but Gettysburg clawed back to within three points on three occasions, including AB Holsinger (Charlottesville, Va./Langley) beating the first-quarter buzzer to make it 18-15.
• A 6-0 burst in a 2-minute, 21-second span pushed the lead out to 29-19 at the midway point of the second period. Trailing 31-21, baskets from Lee, Emily Violante (Easton, Pa./Easton Area) and Amanda Rapel (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg) cut the deficit to 31-27 at the break.
• Points from five different NYU players in the first 2:26 of the third quarter quickly extended the lead to 43-31 and the Violets led by double digits the rest of the way. Lee momentarily stopped the momentum but Peper canned a triple at the other end to eclipse the 20-point mark for the game. NYU tallied the final six points of the third quarter to extend the lead to 58-40.
• A Peper pull-up in the first 65 seconds of the fourth quarter made it a 20-point game for the first time. The Violets run extended to 12 straight, taking a 66-40 lead with 6:29 to play en route to the 25-point win.

THE INSIDE STORY
• AB Holsinger added 10 points while Jameson Mott contributed nine.
• NYU shot 50 percent for the game, including 61.3 percent in the second half while holding Gettysburg to 35.7 percent for the night.
• The loss snaps the Bullets' program-record 35-game home winning streak.
• Shinya Lee finished her career with a program-record 242 blocked shots for her career, including a single-season record 91 this season.