Post by rainman on Nov 19, 2007 7:46:32 GMT -5
WVU women crush Cornell 93-52
MORGANTOWN — The 19th-ranked West Virginia University women’s basketball team made its record 3-0 on Sunday with a 93-52 victory over Cornell.
Coach Mike Carey cleared his bench of all 14 players, just as he had in last Friday night’s 81-29 rout of St. Francis (Pa.).
But the visiting Big Red (12) surprisingly jumped out to an early eight-point lead at 124 and remained in front until the Mountaineers forged ties at 14 and 16.
Then WVU staged a 120 spurt to open up a 28-16 advantage with 7:43 left in the first half, which ended at 48-30.
The score was 74-40 midway of the second half, despite the fact Carey substituted freely.
“I liked the way we fought back,” Carey said. “I liked the way players came off the bench and played well.
“Defensively, we were able to get up and down the floor. Cornell is probably the best team we’ve played so far.”
Cornell coach Dayna Smith said, “Obviously, we’re disappointed. But West Virginia has a great team. We enjoyed coming here.
“Hopefully, we can learn something from this. At times we were playing good defense.”
West Virginia shot 50 percent from the field (33-66) while limiting the Big Red to 32.7 percent (17-52).
The Mountaineers also outrebounded Cornell by 46-26 and had 13 turnovers to 21.
Chakhia Cole, 5-10 senior, scored the 1,000th point of her career in her 100th consecutive start. She finished the game with 17 points on 8-for-10 shooting and also had a gamehigh eight rebounds.
Her three-point basket at 17:37 put her total over 1,000.
Meg Bulger came off the bench to score 21 points in 20 minutes. It was her 26th career 20-point game. Olayinka Sanni, 6-2 senior, tallied a game-high 22 points to go with six rebounds.
Sanni now has hit 20 points or more in 13 games.
Kayleen Fitzsimmons led Cornell with 15 points, while Moina Snyder had 12 and Lauren Benson 11.
The WVU women now are looking forward to playing No. 7-ranked Tennessee on Wednesday night at Charleston. It will be one of the biggest games in the program’s history. “We’re going to compete and play hard,” Carey said.
MORGANTOWN — The 19th-ranked West Virginia University women’s basketball team made its record 3-0 on Sunday with a 93-52 victory over Cornell.
Coach Mike Carey cleared his bench of all 14 players, just as he had in last Friday night’s 81-29 rout of St. Francis (Pa.).
But the visiting Big Red (12) surprisingly jumped out to an early eight-point lead at 124 and remained in front until the Mountaineers forged ties at 14 and 16.
Then WVU staged a 120 spurt to open up a 28-16 advantage with 7:43 left in the first half, which ended at 48-30.
The score was 74-40 midway of the second half, despite the fact Carey substituted freely.
“I liked the way we fought back,” Carey said. “I liked the way players came off the bench and played well.
“Defensively, we were able to get up and down the floor. Cornell is probably the best team we’ve played so far.”
Cornell coach Dayna Smith said, “Obviously, we’re disappointed. But West Virginia has a great team. We enjoyed coming here.
“Hopefully, we can learn something from this. At times we were playing good defense.”
West Virginia shot 50 percent from the field (33-66) while limiting the Big Red to 32.7 percent (17-52).
The Mountaineers also outrebounded Cornell by 46-26 and had 13 turnovers to 21.
Chakhia Cole, 5-10 senior, scored the 1,000th point of her career in her 100th consecutive start. She finished the game with 17 points on 8-for-10 shooting and also had a gamehigh eight rebounds.
Her three-point basket at 17:37 put her total over 1,000.
Meg Bulger came off the bench to score 21 points in 20 minutes. It was her 26th career 20-point game. Olayinka Sanni, 6-2 senior, tallied a game-high 22 points to go with six rebounds.
Sanni now has hit 20 points or more in 13 games.
Kayleen Fitzsimmons led Cornell with 15 points, while Moina Snyder had 12 and Lauren Benson 11.
The WVU women now are looking forward to playing No. 7-ranked Tennessee on Wednesday night at Charleston. It will be one of the biggest games in the program’s history. “We’re going to compete and play hard,” Carey said.
