Southwestern gets Past Crusaders in Overtime Friday
IRVING, Texas – So far 2017 has provided the University of Dallas women's basketball team (7-5, 0-2 SCAC) extra basketball in both contests. Unfortunately, both have ended with its opponent tallying 77 points to win. The latest was a conference showdown on Friday at the Maher Center with Southwestern University (4-8, 1-0 SCAC) prevailing 77-69.
NOTABLE STATS
(Individual Notes)
- Sammi Tso (Las Vegas, Nev.) posted a career-high for the third time this season with 23 points. All of her double-digit contests have been at least 20 points and were part of the trio of personal bests.
- Michelle DeCoud (Monument, Colo.) reached her 10th double figure scoring contest this campaign with 16 points. She added 11 rebounds (team-high) for her sixth double-double. Her block total increased with three more.
- Caitlyn Worry (Lumberton, Texas) also boasted a career-best 14 points. It was the 3rd game of her career (1st this season) to eclipse double-digits. Tso and Worry combined for all eight UD three-points with four apiece.
- Holly Tonry (Seattle, Wash.) dished four assists. Behind the SCAC leader was Tso with three.
- Southwestern was paced by Olivia Podaras with 21 points. Madison Edwards chipped in 16 and Cecily Woolfolk had 13 from the bench.
- Tori Carraway, the team's leading scoring entering the night, was limited to 10 points. However, a game-high 14 boards led to a double-double.
(Team Notes)
- Dallas shot 32.8 percent (21-64) from the floor compared to 40.3 percent (29-72) for the Pirates. The eight treys the Crusaders made tied a season-best for third time this season.
- Both teams got to the free throw line with UD shooting 19-for-29 (65.5%) compared to 17-for-25 (68.0%) on the guest side.
- The Crusaders won the battle on the glass 47-44.
- Southwestern forced 17 turnovers while committing 10. This led to a 24-8 scoring difference favoring the road squad in points off turnovers.
- Second Chance Points were even at 14.
- The Pirates held a 38-24 edge with points in the paint and 28-8 edge with points from the reserves.
HOW IT HAPPENED
It took 2:20 minutes for any team to get on the scoreboard Friday, with both teams shooting as cold as the temperature outside that featured snow flurries in Texas earlier in the day. DeCoud broke the spell with a layup on a pass from Tso. The drought continued as Worry swished a three-pointer with six and a half to go and opened a 5-0 advantage. The Pirates finally found the bottom of the net with a layup by Podaras on the next play. Dallas scored two next to start on a 7-2 run, but the visitors pulled within a pair of a few occasions. Tso sank two free throws in the last five seconds to give UD a four-point edge at the first break.
The second quarter started the same way with neither side scoring almost two minutes in. Tso had the first five points with a layup and trey about a minute later. That opened up a 21-12 advantage which was the greatest of the night for the Crusaders.
Southwestern did not score until 4:38 remained in the frame as Zhazze Brown notched a layup. The guests got hot pouring 14 of the final 16 points going into halftime. This included 12 unanswered that put the Pirates up 23-21 with barely a minute left by Podaras' jump shot. DeCoud ended the run on an inside basket, but Podaras drained a trifecta to cap the surge and go into intermission up three (26-23).
Both teams tallied the highest amount of points in a quarter in the third. Southwestern outdid the crusaders 22-18. Worry got a jumper to go on the first shot of the frame. The senior followed with a trey to cut the deficit one point again a few moments later. After the opponent scored again, Tonry swiped a steal following her missed shot and then Tso notched the team's 2nd made three-pointer in a row to time the game at 33. SU was still able to keep a narrow lead throughout, but then six points to close out the last 1:28 reflected a 48-41 lead going to the fourth.
Tso captured six of those points back on consecutive trifectas a minute in. However, it wasn't until nearly six minutes later that Worry's second three-pointer in a row would lift Dallas ahead for the first time in the second quarter, 57-55. Then the cold shooting returned like the icy conditions outside, because only one field goal was made in the last three minutes of regulation by either side. Southwestern's Cecily Woolfolk was the lone make with 37 ticks on the clock to cut the margin to one (58-57). Tso, who etched UD's one point in the last three minutes, came up empty on both free throws and the Pirates drew a foul with two seconds. Woolfolk split at the line, hitting the first-of-two and forced overtime.
The Pirates never trailed and outscored Dallas 19-11 in the extra five minutes to secure the triumph. After a Celsi Caraway (Arlington, Texas) jumper cut the score to 63-60 a little past a minute in, seven-of-eight points went towards the Pirates. This counted a made jumper by Woolfolk that came on an extra possession as the guests grabbed an offensive rebound on a missed free throw. It opened a 70-61 edge.
UP NEXT
Dallas hosts Texas Lutheran University at 12 p.m. on Sunday to end the homestand this week.