The Gopher women won their 3rd straight game and their 2nd straight on the road, at Indiana 65-61. OK, no, they didn't shoot it great. It's crazy at this stage to think they're ever going to be a good shooting team but they made 36 percent hold up. Mainly they did it by getting to the FT line. Kenisha Bell got their 17 times (!). She only made 11 but her 22 point total looks pretty good considering the 5-of-21 FG line. Destiny Pitts added 17 on 8-of-9 FT.
Irene Garrido Perez is turning out to be a great story. She was always smooth as silk but Lindsay didn't seem to have much confidence in her until the past couple of weeks. Suddenly she was in the starting lineup, not shooting, not scoring, but providing lots of smoothness. Well, tonight, she made 3-of-3 3s and scored 11 points to go with 6 boards and 3 assists.
Taiye Bello's another one who isn't much of a shooter but she makes up for it on the boards. Tonight she scored 6 points but added 14 boards and 3 blocks. All in all, it was just enough as the Gophers led all the way and held on as Indiana rallied down the stretch.
Meanwhile, the men had a grinder at Williams, which is no surprise considering they were playing Bucky. The Gophers actually outshot Bucky overall, but Bucky had it all over our guys on odd-numbered shots. You know, 3-pointers (6-1) and 1s (10-8). We took it inside effectively as Murph scored 19 and Oturu 11 but Kalscheur and Amir Coffey only managed 8 each and the Gophers haven't often won without a big game from Amir Coffey. (I think Murph added something like 18 boards.) So it was tonight. Wisconsin led most of the way and the final was 56-51.
High School Boys
There were also a couple of big 'uns at De and East Ridge. #1AAA DeLaSalle knocked off #1AAAA Hopkins 75-67. De led 40-30 at the half and 61-37 10 minutes later. Hopkins came back to make it respectable but not anything more than that. Zeke Nnaji scored 26, Tyrell Terry 23 with 7 assists, and Jamison Battle 16.
At East Ridge, Wayzata gave the Raptors everything they could handle, but they handled it. East Ridge led 34-30 at the half, it was 80-all at the end of reg. Each team scored 6 in the 1st OT, but East Ridge put it away with 19 points in the 2nd OT to win it 105-100. Not surprisingly you had 10 players in double figures led by Jacob Beeninga with 36 and Ben Carlson with 31.
Player of the Day--Tyrell Terry
Team of the Day--Gopher women
Coach of the Day--Lindsay Whalen
High School Boys
There were also a couple of big 'uns at De and East Ridge. #1AAA DeLaSalle knocked off #1AAAA Hopkins 75-67. De led 40-30 at the half and 61-37 10 minutes later. Hopkins came back to make it respectable but not anything more than that. Zeke Nnaji scored 26, Tyrell Terry 23 with 7 assists, and Jamison Battle 16.
At East Ridge, Wayzata gave the Raptors everything they could handle, but they handled it. East Ridge led 34-30 at the half, it was 80-all at the end of reg. Each team scored 6 in the 1st OT, but East Ridge put it away with 19 points in the 2nd OT to win it 105-100. Not surprisingly you had 10 players in double figures led by Jacob Beeninga with 36 and Ben Carlson with 31.
Player of the Day--Tyrell Terry
Team of the Day--Gopher women
Coach of the Day--Lindsay Whalen
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