WASHINGTON – The Georgetown University women's basketball team will travel to Harvard University on Sunday for a 3 p.m. matchup against the Crimson in the second round of the Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT). The Hoyas (17-15) defeated Sacred Heart on Friday to advance to the second round for the second-consecutive season.
 
It was a career night for senior guard Dionna White (Baltimore, Md. / Milford Mill) who became just the second Hoya in program history to score 2,000 career points in the 90-59 win over Sacred Heart.  It was also a season scoring high for the Blue & Gray.  White and graduate student guard Dorothy Adomako (Midlothian, Va. / Cosby) both led the team with 21 points apiece.  Adomako pulled down eight boards to lead the team, and White managed six to go along with seven assists and three steals.  Rounding out those in double figures was freshman guard Nikola Kovacikova (Levice, Slovakia / UKF Nitra) who notched 14 points, seven assists and five rebounds.  It was a total team effort as 11 Hoyas scored a point in the win.
 
Georgetown outrebounded Sacred Heart 41-32 and shot an impressive 54.2 percent (39 of 72) from the field.  The defense forced 15 SHU turnovers on seven steals and allowed the Pioneers 30.8 percent (16 of 52) shooting from the field.
 
This marks Georgetown's fourth-consecutive postseason berth, and the second under Head Coach James Howard. The furthest the Hoyas have gone is the WNIT quarterfinals before falling to Boston College 65-56 in 2009. Overall, this is the ninth appearance in the WNIT for the Blue & Gray, and the program is 5-8 all-time in the postseason tournament. Georgetown's last NCAA berth was a trip to the NCAA Tournament Second Round in 2012.
 
The Hoyas had an outstanding end to the regular season as the squad went 5-1 in its final six games. The Blue & Gray defeated fifth-seeded Villanova in the BIG EAST Tournament quarterfinals after earning a first-round bye. The Hoyas defeated the Wildcats 76-67 to advance to the semifinals before falling to nationally-ranked Marquette.
 
GU has three players averaging double digits as All-BIG EAST honorees Adomako and White lead the team with 16.7 and 16.5 ppg, respectively.  Graduate student Mikayla Venson (Arlington, Va. / Yorktown / Virginia) is third with 10.6 ppg.  Adomako and White are averaging 7.9 and 7.4 rpg to rank first and second on the squad, White has a team-best 109 assists on the season as well as 90 steals, and Venson has 74 helpers to her credit.  Adomako leads GU with 51 blocks, while junior forward Anita Kelava (Zagreb, Croatia / Croatian National Team / Maine) also has 49 blocks to her credit.
 
Harvard (17-12) opened up the first round of the WNIT with a 69-56 victory over Drexel at Lavietes Pavilion Friday night. Four members of the Crimson—Katie Benzan, Madeline Raster, Jadyn Bush and Sydney Skinner—put up double-digits in the scoring column, with Benzan leading the pack with a team-high 18 points. Bush registered a double-double with 12 points and 13 boards.  The team went 9-5 in Ivy League play and lost in the semifinals of league tournament to Penn, 91-62.
 
This is the first meeting between the teams. Georgetown is 17-4 all-time against Ivy League opponents and Harvard is the only institution that Blue & Gray has not faced.
 
Live stats and a webcast will be available at www.GUHoyas.com. The winner of Monday's game will then face the winner of Providence and Penn.