Marist Wins the 2021 MAAC Women’s Basketball Championship
Atlantic City, N.J. (March 13, 2021) – No. 1 Marist defeated No. 3 Saint Peter’s 69-29 in the 2021 Hercules Tires MAAC Women’s Basketball Championship Game. The win marks the 11th MAAC title for Marist and their first since 2014. The Red Foxes will represent the MAAC in the NCAA Tournament as the automatic qualifier.
No. 1 Marist (18-3) – 69 | No. 3 Saint Peter’s (13-15) 30
2021 Hercules Tires MAAC Women’s Basketball Championship – Championship
Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall | Atlantic City, NJ
Key Moments:
- With a double-double of 20 points and 13 rebounds, Marist’s Willow Duffell is your Tropicana Play of the Game.
- Marist started the game with a 12-0 run and led the Peacocks 20-5 after the first quarter.
- Marist shot .491 (28-for-57) from the field, while holding Saint Peter's to .208 (11-for-53).
- The Peacocks were able to outscore the Red foxes 14-12 in the second quarter of the championship game, but were held to single digits in the other three frames.
- Marist applied constant pressure from both ends of the floor, shooting 49 percent from the field as a team while also tallying seven blocks and 10 steals.
Notables:
- Duffell was named Most Valuable Player. She averaged 17.0 points, 12.0 rebounds, and 4.7 assists in Marist's three victories.
- Caitlin Weimar and Allie Best were named to the All-Championship Team. Weimar averaged 10.5 points, 10.0 rebounds, and 3.5 blocked shots in her two games. Best, the NCAA leader in assist-to-turnover ratio, had 19 assists against just three turnovers in three games.
- Taiah Thornton and Ajia James were selected to the All-Championship team.
- Sky Castro finished the tournament leading Saint Peter's in rebounding during each of their three games, tallying a team-leading seven boards against the Red Foxes on Saturday.
Up Next:
The NCAA Women's Basketball Selection Show will be held on Monday at 7 p.m. The first round of the NCAA Tournament will take place on Sunday, March 21 and Monday, March 22.
2021 Women’s Basketball All Championship Team
Makayla Firebaugh (Rider)
Lou Lopez-Senechal (Fairfield)
Taiah Thornton (Saint Peter’s)
Ajia James (Saint Peter’s)
Allie Best (Marist)
Caitlin Weimar (Marist)
Willow Duffell (MVP, Marist)
About the 2021 Hercules Tires MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships:
The MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships return to New Jersey on March 8-13, 2021 at Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. To stay up to date on MAAC basketball, visit
http://maacsports.com/basketball and follow
@MAACHoops on Twitter.
About Time Out for Black Lives
Time Out for Black Lives aims to inspire and educate youth, athletes, families and fans. The initiative has an interactive website where coaches and student-athletes from MAAC basketball programs contribute their time and resources to read children’s books in entertaining videos, all focusing on Black culture, history, music and myths. The program comes as part of the MAAC’s
United for Justice campaign that was announced over the summer. For more information, visit
timeoutforblacklives.com.
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) celebrates its 40th year of competition during the 2020-21 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.