Indiana women’s basketball standout Sara Scalia continued her shot shooting performance from the regular season on Thursday night as she won the Women’s 3-point Championship.
Scalia hit 19 3s in the final round to secure the win, beating Missouri’s Hayley Frank by one.
In total, she made 56 3s across three rounds.
She would advance to take on the winner of the men’s side — Nebraska’s Keisei Tominaga. She fell to him, 20-16.
On the season, Scalia hit an Indiana women’s basketball single-season record 103 3s and ranked 12th in three-point percentage (43 percent).
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PHOENIX – Indiana senior guard Sara Scalia hit 19 3-pointers in the final round as she won the 2024 Hanes Women’s 3-Point Championship at Global Credit Union Arena on the campus of Grand Canyon University on Thursday night.
In three rounds of the 35th annual event, Scalia hit a combined 56 made 3-pointers including a high of 21 in the opening round. She advanced to the finals with a 17 in the semifinals and took the crown over Missouri’s Hayley Frank by a score of 19-18. She is the second Hoosier in program history to win the competition, as Aulani Sinclair won the event in 2013. She advanced to face Nebraska’s Keisei Tominaga in the Sketcher’s Battle of the Champions where she ultimately fell, 20-16.
One of the nation’s best 3-point shooters this season, Scalia knocked down an IU single season record 103 triples in her final season with the Cream and Crimson. She ranks fourth in NCAA Division I in three pointers made, fourth in 3-pointers per game (3.22) and 12th in 3-point percentage with a 43 percent clip. The Stillwater, Minn. native was IU’s second leading scorer this season with 16.3 points per game and had three or more triples in 21 times. Scalia scored in double figures in 28 games with 10 games with 20 points or more and a season-high 32 points against Bowling Green.
A 2023-24 All-Big Ten first team honoree, Scalia finished her five-year career as a five-time All-Big Ten selection. She was also a Top 10 finalist for the Ann Meyers Drysdale award for nation’s top shooting guard while also earning WBCA All-Region honors and was the Big Ten Player of the Week on Nov. 20.
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