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Lockwood Leads Princeton with 18 Points in 79-61 Women's Basketball Win over Colgate
December 03, 2005 | Women's Basketball
Dec. 3, 2005
Box Score
PRINCETON, N.J. - A seven-point halftime deficit became an 18-point win for the Princeton women's basketball (4-2) team over Colgate (1-5), 79-61, on Saturday night at Jadwin Gym. Junior forward Casey Lockwood tied for a game-high with 18 points as the Tigers continued their best start in four seasons.
Senior center Becky Brown had another double-double with 14 points and 12 boards, the 10th of her career, second straight and third of the season. Sophomore forward Meagan Cowher was also in double-figures for the fifth straight game with 12 points, and fellow sophomore forward Ariel Rogers had a career-high 16 points. Lockwood came within two points of her own career-best night, just short of the 20 points she logged at Nebraska in her first collegiate game in 2003. She tied a career-high tonight with a game-high five steals.
The turn of events was represented in the statistics as each team went in opposite directions in the second half. Colgate, which shot 45.5 percent in the first 20 minutes, hit on 37 percent of its attempts after the break. Meanwhile, Princeton improved from a first-half percentage of 40.6 to 48.4 in the last frame. After entering the second half down 38-31, Princeton outscored Colgate 48-23 in the last 20 minutes.
Colgate's largest lead was nine at 40-31 with a bucket just after the halftime break. But Princeton went on a 10-2 run to cut it to one within four minutes and passed the Raiders at 45-44 with two Lockwood free throws with 14:25 left in the half. Just inside of 10 minutes left in the game, Princeton began an 8-0 run to take a 10-point lead at 61-51 with 7:38 left, capped off by another Lockwood basket. From there, Colgate never got closer than six at 61-55 as a 16-3 run gave the Tigers their largest lead of the game at 77-58 with just over a minute left, locking up the win. Rebounding and free throws played a large role in turning the game from what looked like a potential disappointment in the first half to a runaway late in the second. Princeton held a 20-18 rebounding edge at the break and outrebounded Colgate 27-8 after the break for an overall 47-26 lead on the glass. The Tigers also made four times as many trips to the line as the Raiders and converted almost every one of them, hitting on 21 of 24 attempts. Colgate was accurate as well, but took only six shots, making five. Princeton also survived a 20-turnover game thanks to Colgate's own difficulties with the basketball, committing 24 turnovers.
Melanie Cargile led Colgate with 18 points while Gretchen Polinski and Megan Ballard had 13 each.
The Tigers look for the program's first 5-2 start since the 1995-96 season on a trip to West Point, N.Y., to play Army on Thursday evening at 7:30.