The sight this weekend at the Boston University Invitational Tournament was an unusual one for fans of the BU women’s basketball team. Katie Terhune took 15 shots from the field. Not for one game, but for two.

In the senior guard’s first three seasons, she was the go-to player for BU. Last season Terhune was only kept to single digits in field goal attempts in four games, none of which were back-to-back. In her sophomore season, she never attempted less than 10 shots.

Terhune had 1,468 career points entering the season, good for third on BU’s all-time list. It looked somewhat likely that at a game in February or March, Terhune would be awarded a ball with ‘1,870’ painted on it, honoring her for passing Debbie Miller as BU’s all-time scoring leader.

That accolade may still come, but Terhune will need to become more integrated into the offense than she was over the weekend. The two-time All-Conference First teamer went 3-7 from the field, including 2-4 from the three-point line, in Saturday’s 66-56 loss to the University of Florida. In Sunday’s 61-53 defeat to Texas A’M University, she went 3-8 from the floor and 0-1 from downtown.

‘I’m not frustrated,’ Terhune said. ‘It’s going to come. It’s going to take a while at the beginning of the season. You always have to work out your bumps the first couple of weeks.’

Terhune’s failure to find her shot was a problem many of her teammates were having as well. The Terriers (0-2) only got off 50 shots in each game and averaged 28 turnovers per contest. Last season, they failed to get off more than 50 shots on only three occasions.

But fear not, the BU Invitational is only a November event and not the more important tournament that looms ahead in March. That means Terhune and company will have plenty of time to work out some of the offensive kinks, and they’ll get a chance this Friday at 10 p.m. Eastern Time when they travel to Palo Alto, Calif. to take on the No. 7 Stanford University Cardinal (1-0).

Stanford, led by perennial All-American candidate and senior Nicole Powell, will be a tough test for BU. The Cardinal defeated the Terriers at Case Gymnasium last year 69-55 with an injured Powell watching from the sidelines. In that game, Terhune scored 19 points on 6-13 shooting.

This weekend was a different feel for Terhune as she played alongside junior forward Becky Bonner, a Stanford transfer and a scoring threat herself, for the first time. Bonner’s weekend line looked more like what Terhune is used to as she scored 32 points on 33 shots in the two games.

You didn’t have to be a statistical geek to notice the change, either. On Sunday, BU went on an 8-0 run with Terhune on the bench. She got less than a handful of touches in half-court sets during the first half, as it was Bonner, not Terhune, who put the Terriers up by one point with 12:36 to play.

In the final 90 seconds of the game, Bonner took three shots from the field while Terhune took none. Terhune was also called for two offensive charges against Texas A’M, a sure sign she is forcing her play rather than creating opportunities.

‘[Terhune]’s supposed to be a scorer for us,’ said BU coach Margaret McKeon. ‘But now we also have Becky Bonner who is going to shoot the ball and Katie Meinhardt who can shoot the ball. And Adrienne [Norris] can get shots and [Marisa] Moseley can get shots, so she’s playing with four other people on the court that can score at the majority of the positions they’re at.

‘She has to play off the team,’ she continued. ‘I don’t think the offense is going to go through Katie. Katie is going to get her shots. And yeah, when we need a bucket, we probably should just play a two-man team of her and Becky Bonner and everybody else just move out of the way.’

With so many scorers on the team, the adjustment is tough not just for Terhune, but also for the rest of her teammates. But McKeon didn’t expect her players to have such a difficult time finding their respective places on the team, and that may have been one reason why BU professor and renowned sports psychologist Dr. Leonard Zaichkowksy was behind the bench and in the locker room on Sunday.

‘I have seen [the struggles] in practice since we started, but I just thought it would come together, but it’s just not there yet,’ McKeon said. ‘I guess I have my work cut out for me.

Terhune said she hopes that the offense can start to click for the team’s upcoming game against Stanford, but she knows it may take a little longer. Bonner only practiced with the team last year and Meinhardt has been unable to play in a full-court practice this season until last week due to nagging injuries.

‘I think we’re trying to integrate a couple new players, big scorers, into the lineup and it’s going to take a while before we start to play with each other, understand each other and feel where they are on the court.’ Terhune said. ‘Some people are going to have big nights and it’s not going to be the same person every night. We just need to feed off the person who’s hot that night.’