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Brown, O'Brien Each Score 19 to Lead Women's Hoops in 76-63 Win over Cornell
February 17, 2006 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 17, 2006
Box Score
PRINCETON, N.J. - The Princeton women's basketball team started the Ivy League's second half in fortuitous fashion on Friday night at Jadwin Gym, defeating Cornell 76-63. The Tigers moved to 15-6 overall and 6-2 in league play. Katy O'Brien dropped in a season-high 19 points while Becky Brown enjoyed her 12th-straight double-digit scoring game with 19 and Casey Lockwood had a double-double with 12 points and a game-high 10 boards. It was the first Tiger season sweep of Cornell since 1999.
Princeton started the game on a 14-2 run that lasted almost eight minutes and set the tone for the rest of the night. Cornell (7-15, 4-5) was never able to cut the lead to less than five in the first half and seven in the second half. O'Brien had eight points in that game-opening run and hit another three-pointer to give the Tigers a 17-5 lead with 10:19 left in the half. It was the second of five occasions in which Princeton led by a dozen in the game's first 20 minutes.
In the first half, the Orange and Black outshot Cornell 41.4 percent to 30 percent and held any one Big Red player to no more than five points, which was what guard Kaylee Fitzsimmons took into the halftime break. Center Jeomi Maduka, a six-time Ivy Rookie of the Week, had just two points and two fouls in the first half. O'Brien, meanwhile, had 11 points on 3 for 5 shooting from distance to carry the Tigers.
Little changed in the second half as the teams played about even until the 11:13 mark when Princeton closed a 5-0 run to take a 13-point edge, its largest of the game. Five minutes later, the Tiger lead was cut to nine on a Lindsay Krasna bucket and then seven on a pair of Krasna free throws. But another 5-0 run, with all five points coming from O'Brien, restored a 12-point lead with just under five minutes left. From that point, Cornell got no closer than nine and trailed by as much as 15 in the final minute. Princeton won the shooting percentage, rebounding and turnover battles, leading to the win. The Tigers outshot Cornell 48.2 percent to 43.2 percent for the game, outrebounded the visitors 35-28 and had 15 second-chance boards. The Tigers also had 17 giveaways and 10 steals to 20 turnovers for the Big Red. In addition to her 12 points and 10 boards, the tenacious Lockwood recorded four of those takeaways.
Cornell was led by Maduka, who had 14 points and eight boards, and Krasna, who scored 12.
Brown, who entered the week No. 3 in Division I in shooting percentage, went 7 for 12 from the field on Friday and moved closer to becoming just the third player in Princeton women's basketball history to score 1,500 points. She currently has 1,495.
The Tigers stayed in third place in the Ivy League behind Brown (8-1) and Dartmouth (8-0), both of whom won on Friday. Princeton hosts Columbia, who fell at Penn on Friday night, at 7 p.m. Saturday.