Sunday, March 18, 2007

1st Round NCAA: Duke Beats Down Holy Cross 81-44

YES!

Duke gets through their first round game fairly easily. Abby Waner shot the lights out. The team shot a very good 54.2% from the field and had 12 offensive rebounds. The only downside for me for this game was that the free throw shooting was atrocious (56.3%). I remember that game against North Carolina where we kept missing free throw after free throw. At that time, it didn't hurt us because the lead was pretty comfortable at that point. Today, obviously, we were blowing them out so it didn't really hurt. Down the road, however, against a team like Tennessee or UConn, and we're up by only five or less, those misses are going to kill the game for Duke. They need to bring that percentage up. Really.

Top 5 Scorers:
Abby Waner--26 (and 6-8 from the 3 pt line)
Alison Bales--13
Carrem Gay--10
Joy Cheek--10
Lindsey Harding--7

Top 5 Rebounders:
Alison Bales--8
Wanisha Smith--6
Bridgette Mitchell--5
Gay, Waner, Jackson, Cheek--3

Top 2 Assists:
Wanisha Smith--9
Alison Bales--3

Top 2 Steals:
Abby Waner--4
Harding, Gay--3

Top Blocks:
Alison Bales--5

Duke will play the winner of the Temple-Nebraska game going on right now on Tuesday. Come on Duke!! :)

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