TROY, Ala. -- The ULM women's basketball team fought until the very end but came up short to Troy in the WNIT Great 8 on Monday (April 1) at Trojan Arena in Troy, Ala. 

Daisha Bradford, who broke the ULM single season scoring record in Monday's game, finished with a game-high 31 points. She finished her final season with 675 total points and broke Lisa Ingram's record of 672 points set during the 1982-83 season. Bradford added six boards, four assists, four steals and one block. 

Lauren Gross finished her college career in impressive fashion after knocking down four 3-pointers and accumulating 16 points to go along with four rebounds, two assists and one steal. Brianna Harris was a pair of rebounds away from a double-double and posted 10 points and eight rebounds in her final collegiate contest. Senior Sania Wells facilitated the offense and distributed a team-high six assists. 

Troy shot 43.2% from the field and scored 18 points from turnovers while holding ULM to 36.1% shooting. The Trojans outrebounded the Warhawks by 22 and pulled down 15 offensive rebounds. 

With ULM down 10-3 in the early stages of the game, Katlyn Manuel connected on a pair of free throws and Harris drilled a triple to bring the Warhawks within two. A layup by Gross from a Bradford steal evened the score at 10 and Harris sank her second 3-pointer of the quarter to give the Warhawks their first lead of the night. Troy regained after going on a 7-0 run to go up 17-13 midway through the first. Bradford made a layup and Harris added a free throw to bring ULM within one point. Troy led by as many as five points inside the final three minutes of the first. Bradford found Gross in the corner in the final seconds of the period for a triple to trim the deficit to two. 

A technical foul called on Troy turned into a pair of made free throws by Gross to start the second to even the score, 21-21. The Trojans jumped back in front and led 30-24 with 6:20 remaining in the first half. Troy's lead grew to double digits following a 7-0 run that concluded with 2:34 on the clock for the first half. Chardai Watkins brought the Warhawks back within six after taking a defensive rebound all the way down the floor for a layup on a fast break. The Trojans scored the final four points of the half and led 42-32 heading into the locker room. 

The Trojans began the second half with a pair of two-point field goals and opened a 46-32 lead. Bradford and Gross hit back-to-back 3-pointers for the Warhawks to bring ULM within single digits of Troy's cushion. The home team answered with an 8-1 scoring run and led by 15 points with 3:38 remaining in the third. The Warhawks finished the third quarter on a 6-0 run after Bradford and Gross hit triples in the final minute of play to help ULM cut Troy's lead to nine after three quarters of play. 

Troy led by its largest margin of the night with 5:41 remaining in the fourth quarter. The Warhawks would not go away and rallied with a 9-0 to trim the deficit to single digits in less than two minutes of game time. Manuel started the run with a layup and Bradford picked off a Troy pass for a breakaway layup. Bradford tied the ULM single season scoring record with a score from a steal with 4:36 remaining and was fouled on the play. Bradford sank the ensuing free throw for her 673rd point of the season and shattered the record. 

Bradford again delivered another layup to complete the scoring run and made the score 76-68 with 4:02 to go. Wells led Harris on an outlet pass down the floor for a fastbreak layup and ULM trailed by just two possessions with 2:19 left at 78-72. That was the closest the Warhawks came within Troy's lead, as the Trojans closed the game out on an 11-3 scoring run and advanced with an 89-75 win. 

ULM concluded their season with a record of 21-14 and earned the most victories in program history since the 2004-05 season under Missy Bilderback's first season at the helm of the program. The team won its first postseason game since 1985 and advanced to the WNIT Quarterfinals for the first time in program history, making it the longest postseason run in 39 years.