MONTREAL – Charlotte Jolin of Quebec City came off the bench to score a game and career-high 19 points as McGill clobbered UQAM 86-37 in the women's basketball regular season finale at the Centre Sportif, Saturday.
 
McGill led from start to finish, taking a commanding 22-7 lead after the opening quarter. The Martlets stepped on the gas pedal in the second quarter with a school record 32 points to take a 33-point cushion into halftime at 54-21. That surpassed the previous team best of 29 set in the second quarter of a 102-45 over UQAM on Nov. 23, 2024.

Liberal substitutions were made at halftime and McGill won the third quarter 12-7, then took the final frame 20-9.
 
The Martlets also established a single-game school record with 30 assists, surpassing the previous high of 26 set on two previous occasions: on Jan. 28, 2016 (vs Bishop's) and on Jan. 9, 2025 (vs UQAM).

McGill pulled down a season-high 60 rebounds, compared to 41 from UQAM. It was the team's highest regular season total under the glass in a decade, since setting a school record with 74 boards against UQAM on Feb. 19, 2015.

Jolin, a 5-foot-6 point-guard, scored her 19 points (surpassing her previous personal best of 11) in just 22 minutes of court time. The 20-year-old science sophomore shot a stellar 6-for-12 from the field, including a 4-for-9 performance from three-point range. She went 3-for-4 from the free-throw line and was credited with six assists, three rebounds and a pair of steals.
 
Also reaching double digits off the bench was Aicha Hassan-Omar with 13.

UQAM's leading scorer was Rosalie Savard with eight points.

The Martlets finished third in the five-team RSEQ conference with a 9-7 record and will confront second-place Bishop's in a sudden-death semifinal at Lennoxville, Que., on Wednesday (Feb. 26).

UQAM finished at 0-16, their first winless campaign since going 0-16 in 2003-04, their debut season in the Quebec league.

McGill now turns its focus on the upcoming semifinal against Bishop's. The Martlets split the season series with BU at 2-2, winning 66-64 and losing 54-49 in Lennoxville. At home, the McGill lost 53-47 and won 48-43 in the last confrontation on Feb. 15. McGill owns an 89-84 all-time head-to-head record against the Gaiters since the first rendezvous in 1972.

The other RSEQ semifinal, slated for the same start time, will pit fourth-place Concordia (6-10) against top-seeded Laval (14-2). The league championship game is scheduled for next Saturday (March 1).
 
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SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Communications Officer
McGill Athletics and Recreation
(514) 983- 7012
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca
www.mcgillathletics.ca