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Dartmouth Wins OT Battle in Women's Basketball, 71-67
January 30, 2009 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON, N.J. (1/30/09) ? Dartmouth shot 100 percent from the field in overtime record a 71-67 win over Princeton in women's basketball on Friday, Jan. 30 at Jadwin Gym.
The teams entered the extra session tied at 52. Dartmouth's Margaret Smith drained a three-pointer at 4:42 and the Big Green wouldn't relinquish its lead for the remainder. Princeton worked its way to a two-point deficit on three occasions, the last time with 1:56 remaining. Dartmouth scored the next five points to take the 65-58 lead with 53 seconds left. A jumper by Laura Johnson and two free throws from Addie Micir in next 10 seconds brought the score to 65-61. Dartmouth would score on six of its last seven free throws, while Princeton could only get one basket from Krystal Hill and Lauren Edwards at the buzzer.
"When it's a close game that goes into OT, it comes down to making plays," Coach Banghart said. "We shut down their top players but their role players made plays. We missed a lot of open shots and it's hard to win when you don't make open shots. That said, there is a lot of confidence in our locker room especially when we played badly on offense, but we know we can play well on defense and that was evident by the score at halftime."The Tigers began the game working their way up to a 10-point lead, 16-6 at 10:47. The Big Green started to cut into the lead as it held Princeton scoreless for the next five minutes and scored eight points to make it a 16-14 game. In the closing minutes, Princeton would score nine points to Dartmouth's six to take a 25-20 lead into the locker room.
Koren Schram hit a three-point basket to begin the second half and Brittney Smith added a layup to tie the score at 25 apiece at 18:10. Dartmouth took the lead at 12:29 off a three-point basket from Meghan McFee. The Big Green got ahead by as much as seven points, 46-39, at 6:41, before the Tigers staged a comeback of their own.
Senior Julia Berger led the charge scoring the next five points before Lauren Edwards put in a lay-up to tie the game at 46-46 at 2:35.
Dartmouth went on a 5-0 run and Princeton responded with a 4-0 run to make it 51-50 with 38 seconds remaining in regulation. Schram missed her first free throw but sank her second, to give possession to Princeton. Sophomore Addie Micir dropped in a jumper with 15 seconds left to tie the game at 52-52 and send Princeton into its first overtime game of the season.
Edwards led the Tigers in scoring with 18 points, six rebounds, three steals and three assists. Micir contributed 16 points and also grabbed nine rebounds, while senior Whitney Downs made three steals. Freshman Devona Allgood collected 10 points and was one rebound shy of her second career double-double as she grabbed nine boards and had two blocks.
McFee scored a game-high 21 points, while Darcy Rose recorded a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds. Margaret Smith contributed 12 points, and Schram added 10 and had four steals. Britney Smith pulled down eight rebounds and had three steals.
Princeton shot 39.7 percent from the field, 69.2 percent from the free-throw line and 16.7 percent from behind the arc. Dartmouth shot 43.1 percent from the field, 63.6 percent from the charity stripe and 60 percent from the outside.
Dartmouth now maintains sole possession of first place in the Ivy League standings with a 2-0 record, and are 7-9 overall. Princeton is at .500 in the league and 6-10 overall.
Princeton hosts Harvard tomorrow, Jan. 31, at 6 p.m. The Crimson recorded their 500th program win with a 72-63 victory over Penn during tonight's contest.