It was a sleepy Saturday morning. 
 
Until it wasn't. 
 
On Saturday, the Grand Canyon University Women's Club Basketball team turned a three-point margin at halftime into a 29-point win over Arizona State University in the Canyon Activity Center on GCU's campus. 
 
The activity level at 9AM on a Saturday on a college campus is usually nonexistent, and the Lopes matched that slow pace early. That changed after an energized halftime talk as GCU pushed the tempo against the Sun Devils to secure the top spot in the Arizona Women's Basketball League Standings. 
 
With help from twelve points from GCU senior Presley Blommers, the Lopes stayed ahead for much of the first half despite their sluggish start, heading into halftime with a 39-36 lead. 
 
"Honestly, that was probably one of the worst halves of basketball that we've played," said GCU Assistant Coach Brooke Wright. "We realized making shifts coming into the next half was a really big thing for us."
 
The shift in energy was immediate as the Lopes opened the third quarter with a dominant run, building a 47-38 lead and forcing an ASU timeout. 
 
Blommers finished the game with a team-high 22 points, while Mia Brown added 15 – nine of those coming on 3-pointers – and Livi Wood contributed 13. GCU's defense also locked in after halftime, outscoring ASU 43-17 in the second half. 

The Lopes built on that Saturday momentum two nights later at the CAC, using a 29-point 3rd quarter to turn a close AWBL game at halftime against Ottawa University Arizona into a blowout, coasting to a 69-58 victory.
 
The Lopes return to the CAC next Saturday, January 24 to play a doubleheader. They face Ottawa at 9AM and Arizona Christian University at 10:30AM.