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Cowher Scores 23 as Women's Hoops Tops Brown, 55-49
March 02, 2007 | Women's Basketball
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Meagan Cowher reached the 20-point mark for the 10th time this season as the junior led the Princeton women's basketball team with 23 points in a 55-49 win at Brown Friday night.
The win lifts Princeton's overall record to 12-14 and evens the Ivy record at 6-6 with two games to play. The Tigers will visit Yale Saturday for a 7 p.m. tipoff in the team's final road game of the season.
With the outburst of offense, Cowher lifted her season total to 470, just 10 points shy of matching the season record set by Sandi Bittler '90 in 1989. Her career total moved to 1,113, good for a tie for 12th place with Jacqueline Jackson '78. Cowher passed Maureen Lane '03 (1,098) and Laura Leacy '94 (1,106) in the process.
The game was tied 13 times before Princeton went on a run of free throws in the last three minutes that sealed the contest. After a 46-46 tie with 2:39 left Cowher scored her last field goal of the game to put Princeton ahead by two. From that point, Princeton, which had missed 8 of 20 from the line, hit 7 of 8 to close the game while Brown missed 4 of 5 during the same span as the game slipped away.
Princeton more than made up for a 19-16 turnover deficit by out-rebounding Brown, 34-31, and outshooting the Bears 46.3% to 37.3% despite Brown taking 10 more attempts from the field than did the Tigers. Princeton, however, had 28 free throw attempts to Brown's 16, though the Tigers missing nearly half of their attempts kept the game close.
Casey Lockwood also had 10 points for Princeton to mark her sixth straight double-digit scoring game. Freshman Elizabeth Pietrzak had a game-high 11 rebounds, nearly three times her previous best of four.
Brown's Ashley King-Bischof led the Bears with 16 points while Christina Johnson also scored 11 points.
The game was just as tight in the first half as Princeton went on a 6-0 run just after the half's midway point to take an 18-12 lead, but Brown quickly pulled back to within one by the 6:31 mark of the opening period.
The win was Richard Barron's 73rd at Princeton, moving him into sole possession of second place in the Princeton all-time list. Joan Kowalik is the all-time leader with 163 wins from 1984-95. Barron had been tied with Pat Walsh (1974-79) at 72 wins.