The women win it in OT 73-65.

Trailed entire game until the three at the buzzer.  Never tied.   

Annie and Nina both being out is going to hurt. 

But a great comeback bring down 9 after 3.   Caroline Elliot stepped up with some good minutes.   Gritty win to win to two on the road this weekend.

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SkepticAl wrote:

A83 wrote:

Trailed entire game until the three at the buzzer. Never tied.

Annie and Nina both being out is going to hurt.

But a great comeback bring down 9 after 3. Caroline Elliot stepped up with some good minutes. Gritty win to win to two on the road this weekend.

Was actually Kiersten Elliott not Caroline - When I was at the opener Caroline Elliott had her arm in a sling.

Yep.  Thanks.

It was a great win. Team fought hard the whole way. Most of the first half the rim felt like it had a lid on it. It didn't help that Lafayette got a little home cooking from the refs. Their bigs got away with a lot of elbows for most of the game, and there were some really flagrant fouls against us that somehow got missed.

Damn right, I let the refs know about it!

We were helped a lot when their bigs both fouled out (although it should have happened much sooner).

The three by Amanda was about as clutch a shot as I've seen in fif- uh, a lot of years of watching basketball. 

AP's injury looked very bad. It didn't look like contact at the time. She came up with a loose ball, looked like she was trying to make a move, and crumpled in agony. I was a little miffed the home team didn't provide a cart or stretcher to help the kid.

Got to meet Paige's folks -- really nice people. Coach Burt took the time after the game to talk to the DU faithful. 

Tell you what, I like the freshmen. This is a young team but a really great future.



 

ElDuque wrote:

It was a great win. Team fought hard the whole way. Most of the first half the rim felt like it had a lid on it. It didn't help that Lafayette got a little home cooking from the refs. Their bigs got away with a lot of elbows for most of the game, and there were some really flagrant fouls against us that somehow got missed.

Damn right, I let the refs know about it!

We were helped a lot when their bigs both fouled out (although it should have happened much sooner).

The three by Amanda was about as clutch a shot as I've seen in fif- uh, a lot of years of watching basketball. 

AP's injury looked very bad. It didn't look like contact at the time. She came up with a loose ball, looked like she was trying to make a move, and crumpled in agony. I was a little miffed the home team didn't provide a cart or stretcher to help the kid.

Got to meet Paige's folks -- really nice people. Coach Burt took the time after the game to talk to the DU faithful. 

Tell you what, I like the freshmen. This is a young team but a really great future.
 

I'm going to guess you were in the Schmidt football jersey. If so I was right behind you with the shy daughters. Luckily they weren't shy during the game, giving their support to the Dukes. I would have loved to stick around to show the team our appreciation, but we had to leave pretty quickly. It was a good showing for the Dukes 300 miles from home though.

Loved the character shown by the team. With Halle, Annie-Pier, Caroline and Nina all out with injuries and the two freshmen redshirting, we are down to nine available players. That said, when the time came, these young ladies locked it down with a formidable zone and clutch shooting in winning time after struggling for most of the game. It is a fun team to watch. Go Dukes!

HookShot wrote:

Loved the character shown by the team. With Halle, Annie-Pier, Caroline and Nina all out with injuries and the two freshmen redshirting, we are down to nine available players. That said, when the time came, these young ladies locked it down with a formidable zone and clutch shooting in winning time after struggling for most of the game. It is a fun team to watch. Go Dukes!

Yeah, that zone was like a magic switch, Lafayette stopped getting good looks inside and out. I thought, despite the numbers, our kids were better. Offensively shots and FTs just weren’t dropping for a while.

ElDuque wrote:

You are raising them right! We had your cuties behind us and a really nice alum and family in front of us. I apologize for being loud. My wife kept telling me I was scaring children. 😳

No apology necessary. I think the only ones you scared were the Lafayette fans who clearly aren't used to such a vocal fan at the women's game. Of course they also were calling Coach a whiner when he was pretty tame with the refs. I heard multiple calls for a technical, but if that behavior warranted a T no coach would ever make it through a game. This was the first women's game I'd been to in 15 years and the first road game in 8 years, so I wasn't sure what we were heading into. I thought it was a good showing for the Dukes though. We might have only been 10% of the fans, but we were just as loud as the other 90% for the home team.