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Dartmouth Turns Back Women's Hoops, 82-64
February 11, 2006 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 11, 2006
Box Score
PRINCETON, N.J. - Dartmouth, the defending Ivy League champions, turned back a challenge from as talented a Princeton women's basketball team (14-6, 5-2 Ivy) as has been seen in several years on Saturday night at Jadwin Gym, 82-64. The Big Green (16-4, 7-0) were more accurate from the field, benefitted from Princeton fouls and outrebounded the Tigers, who were never able to put together the kind of second-half surge that had been seen in several games this year.
Sophomore Meagan Cowher led Princeton with 22 points and nine rebounds while senior center Becky Brown, who entered the night as the most accurate shooter in Division I, went 4 for 10 from the field with 12 points. Jeannie Cullen led four Big Green players in double-figures with 22.
Both teams were rusty at the start, combining to open the game 0 for 15 with the first field goal not coming until almost four minutes into the contest. Princeton's first basket came from Cowher with 15:38 left in the first period, but Dartmouth then started a 9-0 run from which Princeton was never really able to recover. Up 15-2 with 9:46 left in the half, Dartmouth saw its lead cut to eight on a Cowher free throw with 4:49 to go before the break. But a 12-0 run over the next four minutes gave the visitors their first 20-point lead of the night inside of a minute to go before halftime. Princeton entered the locker room with an 18-point deficit to overcome.
Princeton shot 30.8 percent for the half despite missing 14 of its first 15 shots, closing the period by making 7 of 11 from the field. Dartmouth shot 42.3 percent in the first 20 minutes and benefitted from 10 Tiger turnovers while giving away just five. In the second half, Princeton had a 7-0 run starting at the 6:35 mark that buckets by Brown, Cowher and senior Katy O'Brien that cut Dartmouth's edge to 15. But an Angie Soriaga three-pointer, one of nine on the night for the visitors, ended that string and the Tigers got no closer.
For the game, Dartmouth outshot Princeton 48.2 percent to 40 percent and benefitted from hitting 19 of 21 free throws. Despite committing only two more fouls than Dartmouth, the Tigers took only 11 shots from the line, making seven. The Big Green had a 40-31 rebounding edge, though 16 of Princeton's boards were on the offensive end.
Even with the loss, Princeton is 5-2 at the Ivy League turn for the first time since 1999, when it was 6-1 at this point in the schedule. The league's second half begins on Friday with the Tigers hosting Cornell for a 7 p.m. start.