Box Score Millersville, Pa. – Buried in her office all week, head coach Mary Fleig was trying to "find a way" to beat the No. 16 team in the country as undefeated Bloomsburg, a team Millersville hadn't beaten in its last four tries, came to town. The way her team found to solve the Huskies was by scoring the final eight points of the game in a furious, come-from-behind rally to upset Bloom by a score of 62-55 on the Marauders home floor.

The 5-0 (3-0 PSAC) start to the season is Millersville's first since the 2009-10 season and gives the team sole possession of the top spot in the division standings. The Huskies, with their airtight defense (third in the PSAC in scoring defense entering the game), made the Marauders earn the victory. After Bloomsburg took its largest lead at six (45-39) on two free throws by reigning PSAC East Player of the Year Dana Wieller with 11:22 to play, Millersville staged a furious rally, outscoring the Huskies 23-10 over the final 11 minutes.
 
With the Bloom lead slipping away and at just one point with 4:20 left, the Marauders took over, scoring the final eight points of the game sparked by a Mashira Newman running bank shot in the lane to give Millersville a 56-55 lead. The Marauders would never look back, and cemented the win on a frozen rope pass from Carly Gallagher to a wide-open Miesha Cousins under the net, giving the home team a five point lead with just 51 seconds to go.
 
Cousins had a career game, posting personal bests in points (13) and rebounds (13). It was the second double-double of her career. Aurielle Mosley also notched the 38^th double-double of her stellar career with 15 points and 13 rebounds, adding four blocks and two steals. Mosley now needs just four blocks to break the school record of 200 for a career.
 
Millersville crashing the boards in this game was a big key to victory, as Newman added nine more to go along with her 10 points. The Marauders outrebounded the Huskies 51-28, including 19 on the offensive end. Millersville was able to turn those 19 offensive rebounds into 15 second chance points.

Shooting just 23-of-38 from the line and turning the ball over 30 times would be enough to doom most teams on almost any night. But not Millersville; not against No. 16 Bloomsburg; and certainly not on the Marauders' home floor. While the high turnover total was not encouraging, Millersville did limit the Huskies to just 20 points on the 30 turnovers while cashing in 26 points on 22 Bloomsburg turnovers.
 
The first half was a slugfest, tied at 24 after the first 20 minutes of action. That first stanza produced seven lead changes even though the Marauders limited the Huskies to just 25.7 percent shooting from the field. Millersville shot 37.5 percent as a team in the first half.
 
Millersville also knew coming into the game that it would have to contain Wieller and her 45.2 percent 3-point shooting percentage for the season. The Marauders made sure to check that task off the list; Wieller was able to get her points, posting a game-high 19 as the only Husky player in double figures, but shot just 1-for-6 from beyond the arc and turned the ball over six times.
 
One other player who played big minutes for the Marauders in the upset win was impact freshman Celeste Robinson. In 28 minutes of action, Robinson tied a career-high with 10 points on 5-of-7 shooting and filled out the stat sheet with five boards, three assists and two steals. She also had a team-low two turnovers.
 
The division-leading Marauders now get another long break. The team doesn't play again until Dec. 18, when Millersville takes on Gannon at home in the front end of another PSAC crossover back-to-back. The next day, the Marauders stay home to face Mercyhurst. Millersville is just 2-4 all-time against the Golden Knights, but is 4-1 against the Lakers in the all-time series. Tip time for both games is 5:30 p.m. at Pucillo Gymnasium.