{"id":617258,"date":"2026-02-26T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/617258\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:07:15","slug":"penn-state-rallies-to-defeat-usc-women-despite-kara-dunns-24-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/617258\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State rallies to defeat USC women, despite Kara Dunn’s 24 points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kara Dunn had 24 points and Jazzy Davidson had 22, but Penn State rallied to defeat the USC women, 85-82<\/a> on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n

The Trojans led 62-58, early in the fourth quarter and 70-68 with 5:35 to play before Kiyomi McMiller and Moriah Murray made key shots to give Penn State the lead. <\/p>\n

Penn State extended its lead to 79-74 after a 15-foot jumper by McMiller. The teams exchanged buckets until Dunn hit a three-pointer with 14 seconds left, pulling the Trojans back within two at 82-80. McMiller was fouled immediately after the inbounds pass, and made both her free throws. Davidson scored on a layup to make it 84-82 with four seconds remaining. Vitoria Santana was fouled and made one of two free throws with three seconds remaining, but USC<\/a> was unable to get a shot off after that.<\/p>\n

Dunn made a season-high six three-pointers and had six rebounds and three assists. Davidson had her 25th consecutive double-figure scoring performance and sixth straight 20-point game. Kennedy Smith had 19 points along with six rebounds, four assists, two steals and a block.<\/p>\n

With the loss, USC drops to 17-11 overall and 9-8 in Big Ten play<\/a>. Wednesday was Penn State\u2019s second win all-time and first win against USC since Jan. 6, 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kara Dunn had 24 points and Jazzy Davidson had 22, but Penn State rallied to defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":617259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[38124,1582,276,33255,137637,253967,264486,264485,2961,5615,224,5337,5835,449,24566,5613,264487,78355,137632,28447],"class_list":["post-617258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-assist","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-free-throw","tag-jazzy-davidson","tag-kara-dunn","tag-key-shot","tag-kiyomi-mcmiller","tag-la","tag-lead","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-penn-state","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-second","tag-second-win-all-time","tag-three-pointer","tag-usc-woman","tag-wednesday-night"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116136381565403957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}