FARGO, N.D. – Elle Evans netted a career-high 29 points to help the North Dakota State women's basketball team pick up an 85-52 win over St. Thomas on Thursday night at Scheels Center.

With the win, the Bison improve to 11-8 (5-1 Summit) and moved to 8-0 at Scheels Center this season. NDSU has won five of its last six games and is 19-1 at home over the last 20 games dating back to last season. St. Thomas drops to 11-9 (3-3 Summit) with the loss.

Evans carried the Bison with a career-high 29 points on 7-of-7 shooting from three. Her seven triples rank tied for the fourth-most in a single-game in NDSU history and were two shy of the program record of nine, which was set by Beth Bue against Northern Colorado on Feb. 26, 2002. Evans also shot 9-of-14 from the field and 4-of-4 from the free throw line to go along with a game-high three blocks.

Heaven Hamling logged her third 20-point performance of the season with 22 points and a game-high seven rebounds. Abbie Draper closed out the top performers with nine points, three rebounds and two steals.

As a team, NDSU shot 46.6 percent (27-58) from the field and 64.7 percent (11-17) from three with all 10 players reaching the scoring column. The Bison also drained 20 free throws on 23 attempts.

After only holding a one-point lead after the first quarter, 16-15, NDSU erupted starting the second frame on a momentum-shifting 15-1 run to expand its lead to 31-16 after Abby Krzewinski drained a three-pointer at the 5:29 mark. The Bison went on to take a 39-29 lead into the intermission.

NDSU continued to surge starting the third quarter on a 12-2 run to grow its edge to 20, 51-31, following a triple from Evans at the 5:37 mark. The Bison then began to put the game away finishing the third quarter on an 11-0 run capped off by a Miriley Simon buzzer beater to make the score 69-35. The Bison shot 60.0 percent from the field and limited the Tommies to 16.7 percent from the field in the third frame. NDSU went on to close out the contest over the final 10 minutes to earn the 85-52 victory.

NDSU will be back in action next Thursday night hosting South Dakota State. Tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m., at Scheels Center.