GREENCASTLE, Ind. – Sophomore Mackenzie Riccitelli set a new career-high with 31 points on Saturday as The College of Wooster women's basketball team fell to DePauw University 79-73 in a North Coast Athletic Conference matchup.

Riccitelli did a little bit of everything on Saturday, shooting 9-of-13 from the floor, 5-of-6 from range and 8-of-9 from the charity stripe. She also came away with four steals and three rebounds.

Riccitelli made five of Wooster's seven 3-pointers. The other two belonged to junior Ace Sturdivant, who finished with 11 points and a team-high six assists.

First-year Pink Sturdivant scored nine, which included a buzzer-beating jumper to conclude the first half. Emily Webb and Ella Biondi each added six points.

DePauw (11-7, 4-3 NCAC) had two reach 20-plus points. Riley Mont scored 22, and Olivia Hart scored 21 while both pulled a game-high six rebounds.

Wooster (9-9, 1-6 NCAC) won two quarters against DePauw in a back-and-forth affair that saw Wooster trail early and work out of a hole for the remainder of the game.

After a 24-11 quarter for the Tigers in the first, they led by as many as 18 early in the second. Wooster flipped the script with a 23-15 second quarter.

An 8-0 run had them trailing by only five at halftime, 39-34. DePauw finished the quarter 1-for-6 from the floor while the Scots went 6-for-7 and 3-for-4 from deep, creating a 12-4 run in the final three minutes.

DePauw's offense returned to form in the third quarter, but Wooster stayed the course, only losing the quarter by five, 63-53. The fourth belonged to Wooster, but they could not close the 10-point gap.

Wooster got to within four points twice – first, on a pair of made free throws from first-year Hailey Bergosh with 1:52 remaining and again with 39 seconds left on a 3-pointer from Riccitelli, Wooster's final bucket of the game.

Both teams shot 50 percent of better with Wooster holding the edge for the game (52 percent), 3-point range (47 percent) and the charity stripe (86 percent). DePauw won the rebounding battle, 29-20, but mostly benefitted from Wooster's 20 turnovers, of which they scored 27 points from.

While Wooster has only beaten DePauw once in 33 meetings, the Scots have not had a single-digit outcome against the Tigers since the 2014-15 season, when the team lost by seven, 69-62.

The Scots head to Wittenberg to start the second half of the NCAC season next Saturday.