PEORIA, Ill. ? Senior Devyn Flanagan (Riverton, Ill./Riverton) scored the 1,000th point of her career and led five Bradley players in double figures with a game-high 18 points as she helped the Bradley women's basketball team to a 79-63 victory against Northern Iowa in the final event at historic Robertson Memorial Field House.

Playing in her final game at the facility which has played host to nearly 400 women's basketball games and over 1,000 Bradley Athletic events, Flanagan turned in one of the best performances of her career. She scored five points in the first 3:34 of the game to become the 14th player in program history to score 1,000 career points. Freshman Raisa Taylor (Decatur, Ill./Eisenhower) would add seven points over a 5:22 span to help the Braves open the contest with a 21-2 run.

Flanagan would give Bradley (12-17 overall, 6-12 MVC) a 20-point lead at the break when she made a buzzer-beating heave from beyond half court to give the Braves a 39-19 lead. She scored 12 of her game-high 18 points in the first 20 minutes and also added six rebounds, two assists and three steals in the opening half of play.

Northern Iowa (12-17 overall, 8-10 MVC) heated up in the second half, but so did the Braves as both teams shot better than 55 percent from the field after the break. Bradley took a 45-23 lead in the opening minutes of the second half when junior Kelly Krumwiede (Glen Ellyn, Ill./Glenbard West) hit a jumper in the lane with 17:47 to play.

Bradley led 59-43 midway through the second half after a Flanagan jumper, when Nicole Clausen would spark a 14-3 UNI run with a three-pointer. Clausen scored seven points during the Panthers' run that cut Bradley's lead to 62-57 with five and a half minutes remaining.

Back-to-back baskets by Taylor and Flanagan quickly pushed the advantage back to nine points (66-57). Sophomore Skye Johnson (Olympia Fields, Ill./Marian Catholic) helped put the game out of reach with four points, one assist and one steal during a two and a half minute stretch that gave the Braves a 75-61 lead with just over one minute to play.

Bradley shot 56.7 percent from the field in the second half and committed a season-low 11 turnovers as the Braves ended a seven-game losing streak in the series with UNI. Flanagan hit 7-of-10 shots and also added seven rebounds, three assists and three steals in 32 minutes of play in the final home game of her career. In addition to scoring her 1,000th career point, she also grabbed her 400th career rebound and is one of 11 players at BU with 1,000 points and 400 boards.

Fellow senior Rachel Merriman (Peoria, Ill./Notre Dame/Illinois Central) finished one point short of matching a career high, adding 12 points and three steals in her final home game. Taylor chipped in with 15 points in 21 minutes of play off the bench. Freshman Sonya Harris (Riverdale, Ill./Thornton) made her first career start and responded with 14 points and a season-best 14 rebounds to go along with three blocked shots. Johnson was also in double figures with 10 points and six assists.

Northern Iowa shot 29.6 percent in the first half, but heated up to shoot 55.2 percent in the second half and made 5-of-13 three-pointers after the break. Clausen was scoreless in the first half, but made five of seven shots in the second half and finished with a team-best 16 points. Jacqui Kalin added 10 points in the second half to finish with 15 points and Erin Brocka also scored 15 points to help pace the Panthers offensively.

Bradley will be the #8 seed in next week's State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in St. Charles, Mo., and will face #9 seed Southern Illinois Thursday at 6 p.m. in the first round at the Family Arena. The winner of that contest will advance to face #1 seed and Valley regular-season tri-champion Illinois State at noon on Friday.