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They scored 54 points in the paint, 25 off turnovers, 20 off the bench, 16 on the break. From then until halftime, Iowa doubled-up Michigan 34-17, then the Hawkeyes outscored Michigan 44-26 in the second half.
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Michigan hit its first six three-pointers while taking a 25-17 lead late in the first quarter. It's so much fun when we play like that and everybody is getting involved." "Man, I just thought we had some beautiful passing in the second half," Bluder said. Sydney Affolter had 12 points, eight assists and seven rebounds. Three other players were in double figures - Hannah Stuelke was 7-for-7 while scoring 16 she appeared to turn an ankle on her final field goal, but Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said everything would be done to ensure she could play Sunday. The Hawkeyes had a tournament-record 30 assists on 38 made field goals. If Clark had - by her standards - an off night in Friday's victory over Penn State, she was on Saturday.īut what made Iowa so good Saturday - and lethal - is that Clark was part of an ensemble. By the time she sat in the fourth quarter, she had either scored or assisted on 60 of Iowa's first 81 points, and she emerged from the game the all-time leading scorer in tournament history. She scored 28 points with 15 assists, four rebounds and two steals. I feel like we always play great basketball when we're coming here."Ĭlark didn't wait long before giving the raucous Iowa fans in the sellout crowd a reason to cheer. I pack for three days, pack for four days. "I don't know how to do this tournament any other way. I was walking back to the locker room with Gabbie and Jada," Clark said of teammates Gabbie Marshall and Jada Gyamfi. Iowa will be playing in its fourth straight title game, looking to become the third team in tournament history to win three in a row. That put the second-seeded Hawkeyes (28-4) into Sunday's championship game against surprising fifth-seeded Nebraska. In the opposite semifinals, Northfield eliminated top-seeded Air Academy.That's what Caitlin Clark was saying Saturday after she and her Iowa Hawkeyes teammates had dismantled Michigan 95-68 in a Big Ten women's basketball tournament semifinal at Target Center, breaking open the game in the second quarter and turning it into a rout in the second half. To reach the championship game, Roosevelt won 47-40 over No. Nashara Ellerbee had a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds. Bahnsen-Price scored 15 points in her milestone performance and Maddie Moyers finished with 10 points.įor Northfield, leading scorer Madison Bethel (13.08 ppg) led her team with 16 points. Hollier (14.9 ppg) led all scorers with 26 points, going 9 for 17 from the field and also collecting 11 rebounds. “We have five seniors and they get to go out with a state championship and a two-peat, so I’m so excited.” Also in Saturday’s contest, Roosevelt junior Ryanne Bahnsen-Price collected her 1,000th point in the game. Hollier was named Sportswomen of Colorado Player of the Game. They were fast just like us, they were aggressive, they were boxing out, so it was awesome.”
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“We didn’t want to lose our heads or anything like that. “We just needed to slow down,” Roosevelt sophomore Kyla Hollier said. The Nighthawks cut the lead to two with 1 minute, 54 second left in the game but the Roughriders were able to regain control and hold on for the win.
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Northfield pulled within seven points in the third quarter and trailed by only eight to start the fourth. Northfield, however, ended the second quarter on a 10-2 run to cut the lead to 39-29 at halftime. 4 Northfield scored and the Roughriders led by as many as 19 points in the first half. 2-seeded Roosevelt led 11-0 to open the game before No. I’ve never been in that position before and it was really difficult.” They’d just never been in that position before. I know I felt it as a coach and I know they felt it. Like, the entire time, every game this season, every game they stepped out there they were expected to win. “These kids have the weight of the world on them. “It was a grind,” Roosevelt head coach Enoch Miller said. Riding a hot start and a huge first quarter, the Roosevelt Roughriders won 69-63 to go back-to-back for the first time in their program’s history. DENVER – In Saturday’s Class 5A girls basketball state championship game, the Northfield Nighthawks entered the game in the same position their opponent Roosevelt found itself last season – trying to claim that elusive first-ever title for its program.Īfter an exciting game and a late comeback from Northfield, defending champion Roosevelt proved it wasn’t yet ready to relinquish its crown.