Post by elp525 on Mar 6, 2011 10:37:13 GMT -5
Sunday, March 06, 2011
By Paul Zeise
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
HARTFORD, Conn. -- St. John's and West Virginia met in a regular-season finale Monday night at WVU Coliseum and the Mountaineers blew the Red Storm out of the building.
But Saturday night when the two teams met in a Big East women's second-round game at the XL Center, it was a different story as the Red Storm pulled a reversal and beat the Mountaineers, 59-51, to advance.
The Red Storm (21-9), who is the No. 7 seed, will play No. 2 seed DePaul (26-5) at 6 p.m. today in a quarterfinal matchup.
West Virginia coach Mike Carey and his players said it was easy to understand why the two games against St. John's were so dramatically different -- effort, or more specifically, the Mountaineers' lack of effort.
"I think it is very simple -- you look at points off turnovers [St. John's had 21 to West Virginia's 14] and second-chance points [St. John's had 12 to West Virginia's four] and it is clear we got outhustled by them," Carey said. "They simply wanted it more than we did and if you look at those two stats, it is the difference in the game. We lacked effort in warmups and then it happened in the game, the stats don't lie."
Point guard Sarah Miles added, "The difference is they were more aggressive than we were tonight, they wanted it more than we did tonight."
The Mountaineers and Red Storm were tied at 51-51 but St. John's Centhya Hart broke the tie with a layup with 2:27 to play and, after West Virginia's Taylor Palmer missed a 3-point attempt, the Red Storm went up by four on a back-door layup by Keylantra Langley.
By Paul Zeise
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
HARTFORD, Conn. -- St. John's and West Virginia met in a regular-season finale Monday night at WVU Coliseum and the Mountaineers blew the Red Storm out of the building.
But Saturday night when the two teams met in a Big East women's second-round game at the XL Center, it was a different story as the Red Storm pulled a reversal and beat the Mountaineers, 59-51, to advance.
The Red Storm (21-9), who is the No. 7 seed, will play No. 2 seed DePaul (26-5) at 6 p.m. today in a quarterfinal matchup.
West Virginia coach Mike Carey and his players said it was easy to understand why the two games against St. John's were so dramatically different -- effort, or more specifically, the Mountaineers' lack of effort.
"I think it is very simple -- you look at points off turnovers [St. John's had 21 to West Virginia's 14] and second-chance points [St. John's had 12 to West Virginia's four] and it is clear we got outhustled by them," Carey said. "They simply wanted it more than we did and if you look at those two stats, it is the difference in the game. We lacked effort in warmups and then it happened in the game, the stats don't lie."
Point guard Sarah Miles added, "The difference is they were more aggressive than we were tonight, they wanted it more than we did tonight."
The Mountaineers and Red Storm were tied at 51-51 but St. John's Centhya Hart broke the tie with a layup with 2:27 to play and, after West Virginia's Taylor Palmer missed a 3-point attempt, the Red Storm went up by four on a back-door layup by Keylantra Langley.
