Youngstown -- Brandi Brown scored 21 points for Youngstown State, but Butler's Chloe Hamilton scored 34 points to pace the Bulldogs to a 73-56 win on Thursday evening at Beeghly Center.

Butler scored the first 12 points of the game and led by double digits for nearly all of the final 34 minutes. YSU missed its first seven shots and didn't get on the board until Brown's jumper with 13:36 remaining.

Brown was a rebound shy of collecting her 12th double-double. The sophomore forward matched Hamilton with nine boards in the contest, but YSU was beaten 38-22 on the glass. Brown scored at least 20 points for the 11th time.

Brown got help from Tieara Jones' 12 points, but Jones fouled out with 7:25 remaining. Monica Touvelle chipped in with nine points, but no other Penguin had more than five points.

Brittany Bown added 12 points and eight rebounds for Butler.

YSU kept the Bulldogs from running away with the contest in the first half, and the Guins closed out the period on a five-point run and trailed just 32-21 at halftime.

Hamilton scored the first points of the second half to push the Butler advantage to 34-21, but a Bojana Dimitrov 3-pointer and a Jones bucket on consecutive possessions cut the margin down to single digits.

Bowen and Jones traded baskets to make the score 36-28, but Butler scored the next 10 points to take its largest lead of the game at 46-28. The Bulldogs led by as many as 24 before YSU cut the margin down to 14 with 8:45 left. That was as close as the Guins could get.

Butler shot 48 percent overall and 50 percent in the second half. The Bulldogs were 7-for-16 from 3-point range and went 18-for-22 from the free-throw line. YSU shot 38.9 percent overall and was 5-for-19 from beyond the arc.

Youngstown State will welcome Valparaiso to Beeghly Center on Saturday 4:35 p.m. The Penguins will be participating in the WBCA Pink Zone initiative by wearing pink warm-up shirts and pink shoelaces.