History: Senior becomes Bradley's all-time women's basketball leading scorer
PEORIA — Gabi Haack put her name at the top of the record book and Bradley women's basketball got a signature win over a Big Ten Conference team Friday at Renaissance Coliseum.
Bradley knocked off Wisconsin 64-57 while Haack, the once-in-a-generation senior guard, dropped in 24 points to set the all-time BU career scoring record.
Haack drained a 3 from the right wing for a 53-48 lead with 7:16 left in the fourth quarter, and those points put her past Karen Anderson's career total of 1,679 accumulated from 1979-83.
BOX SCORE: Bradley 64, Wisconsin 57
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Haack finished the game with a now-ongoing record 1,686.
"Getting the win was really big for me," Haack said. "It looks so good for us to beat a Big Ten team. So big. We have eight new people and everyone stepped up and tonight we took it all to another level.
"To get the record — my dad was here to watch the game — it was really special. I wouldn't be here for this moment without all my teammates past and present, my coaches, my family."
Game officials took the ball out of play when Haack set the record, and Bradley head coach Andrea Gorski presented it to her in a ceremony accompanied by a video.
When the game ended, the players ran off to the locker room and doused Gorski with water, then surrounded Haack and showered her with water, hugs and congratulations.
"They were hugging on Gabi and they got me pretty good, too," Gorski said, grinning. "I'm so proud of this team. And I'm really proud of Gabi, breaking that record at home. I'm so glad she got it with a win. That's the way she wanted it.
"There's no better person to have that record."
Haack finished with 24 points, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range and 10 of 12 from the free throw line, while adding 8 rebounds.
Teammate Sierra Morrow added nine points and 10 rebounds.
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Bravely Speaking
Karen Anderson's career scoring record at Bradley, erased by Gabi Haack on Friday, was the longest-standing school scoring record among active teams in the Missouri Valley Conference. ... Haack needs two more 3-point field goals to become the MVC's all-time leader (294 by Creighton’s Dayna Finch from 2001-04). ... Wisconsin was just the third Big Ten Conference foe to visit Renaissance Coliseum since it opened in 2010-11. ... The Wisconsin-BU game marked their first matchup since 1986. ... Bradley is 3-0, while Wisconsin slipped to 1-2.
Dave Eminian is the Journal Star sports columnist, and covers Bradley men's basketball, the Rivermen and Chiefs. He writes the Cleve In The Eve sports column for pjstar.com. Reach him at 686-3206 or deminian@pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @icetimecleve.
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