Mayza finished her first collegiate postseason game with 12 points, her 11th double figure game of the season. She was one of three Hawks to finish in double figures with junior Amber Bepko leading the Hawks with 16 points, 11 of which came in the first half. Both her and senior Alyssa Englert, who finished with 10, closed out the game shooting 5-of-11 from the field, while Mayza was 3-of-8 from the field and 6-of-7 from the free throw line.

In the overtime period, the Hawks used a set of five-straight points to take a four point lead with 14.2 seconds remaining. The first basket of that stretch was a three pointer from Shanise Bultron, who finished with eight points, off a feed from Mayza. That long range bucket erased a one point deficit, while a fade away jumper as the shot clock expired from Mayza provided the four point lead.

Maine responded with a layup from Sigi Koizar with 7.4 seconds remaining, but Mayza calmly sank a pair of free throws to ice the victory with 6.1 seconds on the clock. The Black Bears would land a three pointer but the clock showed just four tenths of a second remaining, not enough time for Maine to force an extra play.

The Hawks opened up the game with a 13-2 tear, which include a trio of triples from Bepko, the second two of which came thanks to assists from Englert who finished with five total. The final points in the opening run came from Englert who drove to the hoop for a pair with just over three minutes off the clock.

A series of five unanswered points from the Black Bears cut the Hawks lead down to six with 14:20 remaining in the first half, but Hartford answered by scoring six of the next eight points to regain a double digit lead at 19-9. That lead again came from a Englert basket, the first bucket of the game to that beat out the shot clock.

A three pointer from Chantel Charles but the Hawks lead to seven with 8:58 remaining but another 5-0 run for the Hawks provided the largest lead of the night at 26-24 with under seven minutes remaining in the half. The second of those baskets was the first of two three pointers from Bulron with the second one the most important coming with 14 seconds left in overtime.

Maine responded to that deficit with a pair of three pointers cutting the Hawks lead to 26-20. Alyssa Reaves battled for her first points, the last two of the opening half for Hartford, on a layup with 2:42 remaining. The Hawks defense looked to keep Maine without a basket over the final 3:59 of the half until a three pointer beat out the halftime buzzer and provided the 28-23 margin at the break. The Hawks finished the opening half shooting 47.8 percent from the field (11-of-23) but capitalized from beyond the three point arc making 4-of-6 for 66.7 percent.

The Hawks again opened the second half with another rally scoring the first five points of the second half all in the first 48 seconds. Mayza scored the first basket on a backdoor layup just 12 seconds into the half and Morgan Lumb turned a defensive rebound into a three pointer that provided a 10 point advantage less than a minute into the half.

Maine came out of their first timeout of the half to score six straight and cut the Hawks lead to five points, but Englert struck again, breaking the rally with a jumper off a feed from Mayza. That basket broke up what turned out to be a 12-2 run that ended with the first tie of the game, 35-35.

Three more ties followed before the Black Bears took their second lead of the night, and their largest, at 48-43 following a 7-0 rally that ended with a three from Liz Wood. The Hawks answered that deficit with a spark provided from rookie La'Trice Hall who came off the bench to score the first five of seven unanswered points. The final two points of that run came on a pair of free throws from Mayza which resulted in a 50-48 Hartford lead with 4:16 remaining in regulation.

A put back layup from Englert with 1:58 remaining in the second half proved to be the final basket of regulation for Hartford, while Maine scored its final basket with 75 seconds remaining a drive to the hoop from Koizar, her first points of the game. The Hawks would have an opportunity in the final 10 seconds fall short forcing the second overtime of the season against the Black Bears.

The overtime was the first in the women's tournament since 2009 when first seeded Boston University defeated eighth seeded Albany 77-75 using one extra frame.