WICHITA – Salese Blow hit a buzzer beater to take the No. 2 team in the American Athletic Conference to overtime, but UAB slipped past the Shockers in the final seconds of overtime to claim an 83-81 victory.
 
"Overall, it was a great effort for our team," head coach Terry Nooner. "We played with a lot of passion and emotion tonight. Offensively, it was one of our best games of the season."
 
Daniela Abies recorded her third-straight double-double and fifth of the season with a career-high 23 points and 10 rebounds. She scored 19 of her 23 points after halftime.
 
"We pride ourselves in doing the best we can to outscore teams in the paint," Nooner said. "Our focus in the second half was to get it to Dani as much we could and play off of her. They were double teaming her, and she was still able to score a lot."
 
Salese Blow and Tre'Zure Jobe finished with 21 and 18 points, respectively, Blow's second game over 20 this year.
 
Wichita State out-rebounded the Blazers 55-43, the Shockers' most rebounds in a game this season.
 
Blow tallied 12 first-half points, hitting two of her three three pointers before halftime, and drained two free throws with five seconds left in the half to put the Shockers up three, but the Wichita State left UAB's Ashton Elley open in the corner as she knocked down a three to tie it up.
 
"We just have to figure out how to stop giving up easy baskets and stay locked into the game throughout the whole game," Nooner said.
 
Coming out of the break, the teams traded shots through the first half of the third quarter before Wichita State went on an 11-2 to gain its largest lead of the game (9), but the Blazers came back and hit another three to end the quarter and make it a one-point game.
 
UAB went on a run of its own in the fourth quarter to take a nine-point lead with 2:15 to place, but the Shockers held them scoreless through the rest of regulation, going on a 9-0 run.
 
Down two with 7.2 seconds on the clock, Wichita State gave Blow the ball. Trying to get downhill and score, she got cut off, but with nowhere to kick it, she had to turn around a get a shot up. Blow's shot went in and ultimately sent the game to overtime as UAB's desperation three with 1.1 seconds left didn't  go down.
 
"Fresh off the timeout, I was praying," Blow said. "I drove and the girl cut me off and nobody was open, so I had to turn around and shoot it, and I was praying saying "Go in, go in, go in."
 
The Shockers claimed a five-point lead in overtime, but UAB went 7-for-8 from the line and gained a three-point advantage with 30 seconds left. The Shockers missed a three but forced a turnover on UAB's inbound to give themselves another chance to tie it up. Abies got a big offensive rebound and got the ball to Ornella Niankan, who knocked down a game-tying three with 10.8 seconds remaining, but UAB came down and Denim DeShields hit the game-winning layup.
 
Wichita State falls to 6-14 (2-6 AAC) as the Blazers improve to 15-4 (6-1 AAC).
 
"We play in less than 48 hours, and coach is always telling us with a heartbreaking loss like this and how angry we are, we need to take that anger out on FAU," Blow said.
 
The Shockers are back in Charles Koch Arena Saturday at 5 p.m. to take on Florida Atlantic (5-13, 0-7 AAC)