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In a game that had important implications for their standing in the Summitt League, South Dakota State dominated Oral Roberts in their victory, 70-51.
Early on, this game had the makings of an epic battle between the top two teams in the Summitt League as they went back and forth. Whenever each team seemed to get a lead, the other team would immediately respond by either tying the game or taking the lead back.
Jersey City, NJ - She was in a position considered ideal. Kendra Faustin, the Niagara head coach, had a few of her most dependable free throw shooters getting their chances to ice a close game.
"We were one of six the last 18 seconds ," Faustin later lamented.
Despite the misfiring from the charity stripe, Niagara survived a miss on a last second three point attempt by St. Peter's, to earn a hard fought 54-52 victory at the Yanitelli Center on Thursday.
From Katuna Scores 13 Off The Bench As Dons Falter To Toreros (via USFDons.com).
Despite the lopsided 68-50 final score, the San Francisco Dons actually played relatively even with the University fo San Diego Toreros in the second half of last night's game at War Memorial Gym. But a persistent problem they've had this season is rebounding and that plagued them against a bigger and extremely disciplined squad from down south.
In November, 30 candidates for this season's Lowe's Senior CLASS Award were released. Now that list is down to 10 and voting began yesterday. Votes from the public count as 1/3 of the player's total score with the remaining 2/3 of the vote going to NCAA Division I coaches and media members. The voting results as they stand today are perhaps different than I would expect, with UC-Santa Barbara's Emilie Johnson scooping up nearly a quarter of all the votes cast to this point.
The Senior CLASS award, an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, will be handed out in Denver during the Final Four. Each student-athlete must be a senior and the voting criteria is based on four C's - community, classroom, character and competition. The award, which began in 2001-02 includes some star-studded past winners. Women who have been honored with this award include Maya Moore (Connecticut), Kelsey Griffin (Nebraska), Courtney Paris (Oklahoma), Candice Wiggins (Stanford), Allison Bales (Duke), Seimone Augustus (LSU), Kendra Wecker (Kansas State), Alana Beard (Duke), LaToya Thomas (Mississippi State) and Sue Bird (Connecticut).
Tomorrow’s result could have serious implications for both teams in regards to not only the A-10 standings but also for the NCAA Tournament. Temple and Dayton were both picked as co-favorites to win the A-10 conference but neither has played up to its full potential, especially Temple.
Temple comes into the game struggling as they have a 7-8 record and are 1-1 in conference play. And even in their victory against conference foe Richmond, Temple struggled mightily throughout the game and it took a last second shot by Kristen McCarthy for Temple to win 56-55.
So to say that Temple is not playing their best basketball is probably being generous to say the least. And with a RPI of 75, this game could go far when it comes to short and long term fate of Temple.
Just the Facts, Ma'am: The Purple Knights of Bridgeport led for most of the way in their 59-50 victory over the Knights of Queens College. Four Bridgeport players put up double figures, led by Tanisha Carter's 18 points and 10 rebounds. Nicole Caggiano led Queens with 19 points, 15 of which came in the first half.
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Jersey City, NJ - Game one of the two day St. Peter's College Holiday Classic at St. Peter's saw Dayton of the Atlantic Ten defeat Big East representative South Florida. Notes scribbled during the game are elaborated on following the jump.
Just the Facts, Ma'am: Down by 14 with 6:26 to go in regulation, the Lady Techsters fired off a 21-5 run to force overtime and (eventually) pull out a triple-OT 89-83 win over Prairie View. Kiara Young and Jelena Vucinic each had 21 points for Louisiana Tech, while Kiara Etienne led Prairie View with 24.
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