NCAA WOMEN'S ROUNDUP \ West Lafayette, Ind. games

Purdue 73, Missouri St. 52
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Aya Traore had 20 points and a career-high 11 rebounds and Erin Lawless scored a season-best 19 points to help Purdue beat Missouri State. Missouri State guard Kari Koch entered the game averaging 20.5 points, but was held to 11 on 5-for-17 shooting. She made a layup in the last two minutes to avoid her second single-digit scoring game of the season. Sarah Klaassen added 10 points for the Lady Bears (17-5). Fourth-seeded Purdue (25-6) trailed by 10 points in the first half, but the Boilermakers led by as many as 23 in the second. Purdue advanced to play UCLA.
UCLA 74, Bowling Green 61
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Two weeks after claiming their first Pac-10 tournament title, the fifth-seeded Bruins finally ended their postseason misery with their first NCAA win since beating Colorado State in the 1999 regional semifinals. UCLA (21-10) plays Purdue on Tuesday night. Noelle Quinn and Lisa Willis led the way. Willis had 23 points, 12 rebounds and five 3-pointers while Quinn had 21 points and seven rebounds. Ali Mann had 16 points and eight rebounds, while Liz Honegger finished with 15 points and five rebounds for the 12th-seeded Falcons (28-3). Bowling Green entered the tournament with a 19-game winning streak, tied with Ohio State for the nation's second longest, and were hoping to become the first Mid-American Conference team to win an NCAA game since 1996.
Boston College 78, Notre Dame 61
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- After a long layoff, Boston College found its game in time for the NCAA tournament. Brooke Queenan had 18 points and 11 rebounds, Aja Parham scored 16 and the Eagles snapped a five-game losing streak. Playing for the first time in 17 days, No. 8 seed Boston College (20-11) outrebounded the Irish 42-31, outscored them 29-10 from the free-throw line and held their former Big East rival to 34 percent shooting. Freshman guard Lindsay Schrader scored a career-high 29 points and Megan Duffy added 15 for Notre Dame (18-12), which fell to 0-8 at Mackey Arena.
Boston College dropped its final four games of the regular season, then lost to Virginia in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament on March 2. The victory was BC's first since Feb. 12 against Miami.
Associated Press