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WBB: Gophers Advance to NCAA Second Round
3/19/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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No. 12/12 Minnesota held St. Francis (Pa.) without a field goal for the last 11 minutes of the game to record a 64-33 victory in the first round of the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship in front of 11,312 fans in Williams Arena on Saturday. The Golden Gophers, the Tournament's No. 3 seed, improved to 25-7 overall, and will meet No. 6 seed Virginia on Monday at approximately 8:30 p.m. in a second-round game of the Tempe Regional.
Jamie Broback battled foul trouble and played only 20 minutes but still led the Gophers with 17 points. Broback was 7-of-10 from the field. Janel McCarville added a double-double with 12 points and 15 rebounds. McCarville collected a season-high five blocks to set a new school record with 195.
“This was a great first win for us in the NCAA Tournament,” said Golden Gopher head coach Pam Borton. “We’re happy to move on to the next round. We felt we were a little sloppy in the first half, maybe a little rusty from the 11 or 12 days off. I think we got back into sync in the second half.”
Shannon Schonrock hit a three-pointer in the Gophers’ first possession as Minnesota led the entire game. The Gophers shot 45.8 percent in the first half and took a 10-point lead on a fast-break lay-up by April Calhoun with 5:39 left in the half.
St. Francis (21-10) scored five straight points, including a triple by Christin Black, to chip the Gophers’ lead to five points at 22-17 with 4:12 before intermission. It would turn out to be the last basket of the first half for the Red Flash and the first to two long droughts without a field goal.
A McCarville basket gave Minnesota a 24-17 lead at halftime with the 17 points matching last year’s first half versus Kansas State for an NCAA Tournament low for points allowed by the Gopher defense.
The Gophers’ potent one-two punch of McCarville and Broback in the low post took over the game in the beginning of the second half. The duo scored the first 12 points of the half for the Gophers. Three minutes into the half the Gophers led by 17 points after a Broback lay-up.
Field goals were few and far between for the Red Flash in the second half. The team made just four in 20 attempts with St. Francis’ last basket coming off a Black jumper with 11:38 remaining. The Red Flash scored their final eight points on free throws.
Minnesota shot much better in the second half, hitting on 55.6 percent of its field goal attempts to finish at 51.0 percent for the game. All 13 Gophers in uniform played with 11 of them adding to the scoring column. Kelly Roysland came off the bench to contribute seven points. Calhoun’s lucky number was six, collecting six points, six rebounds and six assists.
The 33 points scored by St. Francis is the lowest point total allowed by the Gophers during the NCAA era, bettering the 34 points scored by Detroit earlier this season.
Minnesota advances to the second round for the fourth consecutive season and will face Virginia on Monday. The Cavaliers (21-10) defeated in-state rival Old Dominion by a score of 79-57. No. 1 seed Michigan State will face Southern California at 6:30 p.m. in the second round game at Minneapolis in the Kansas City Regional.
2005 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball -- Minneapolis First Round
Saturday, March 19, 2005
No. 3 Minnesota 64, No. 14 St. Francis (Pa.) 33 -- Postgame Notes
This is Minnesota’s fifth appearance in the NCAA tournament and fourth in a row. No. 3 seed Minnesota (its highest seed in school history) is now 9-4 all-time in NCAA play and 5-0 in its NCAA first-round games.
With Saturday’s victory, Minnesota has won 25 games for the third consecutive season, giving head coach Pam Borton 75 wins in her three seasons at Minnesota (75-22) and 144 in her career (144-68).
St. Francis made its fourth straight NCAA tournament appearance. St Francis has made the tournament field nine of the last 10 years. However, St. Francis is now 0-9 in NCAA play.
St. Francis is the 14th seed in the Tempe regional. That ties the highest seed ever for SFU in NCAA play.
Saturday’s evening session attendance was 11,312, the third-highest attendance for an NCAA game at Minnesota’s Williams Arena (record is 13,425 for Minnesota vs. Kansas State in 2004). The total attendance for Saturday’s four first-round games at Williams Arena (two sessions) was 18,722.
Minnesota led 24-17 at halftime. It’s the seventh time that Minnesota has held an opponent under 20 points in the first half (the last was Purdue’s 18 on Feb. 13). The 17 points also matches Minnesota’s NCAA tournament opponent low for first-half scoring (Kansas State in the second round last season).
Minnesota is now 8-1 in its NCAA tournament games when leading at the half.
This is the third time this season that St. Francis has been held to under 20 points in the first half (0-3 this season). It’s the second-fewest points SFU has scored in the first half this season. St. Francis is now 1-9 this season when trailing at halftime.
The win marks Minnesota’s largest margin of victory (31 points) ever in an NCAA tournament game. The previous largest margin of victory was 20 points in a 68-48 win over Tulane in the first round in 2003 -- also the previous opponent scoring low in an NCAA tournament game against the Gophers.
The 31-point victory ties the largest margin of victory this season, matching an 84-53 win over Wisconsin on Feb. 20. It’s the 13th time Minnesota has held an opponent under 50 points (13-0) and the third time the Gophers have held an opponent under 40 points this season (3-0).
The 33 points scored by St. Francis marks the fewest points ever scored by a Minnesota opponent in the “NCAA era” (post-1981-82). The new mark breaks the old record that was set earlier this year in an 86-34 Minnesota win over Detroit on Dec. 2.
The 33 points scored by St. Francis is its lowest point total since scoring 33 against Virginia in the 1996-97 season (71-33), and is only the seventh time since 1980-81 that St. Francis has been held under 40 points.
Thirty-one points is the biggest margin of defeat in an NCAA tournament game for St. Francis since an 86-37 (49 points) loss to Connecticut in the 2001-02 season.
Minnesota has now outrebounded its opponents in 11 of its 13 all-time NCAA games.
With 17 points, it’s the 12th time Jamie Broback has led Minnesota in scoring. The Gophers are 10-2 when she accomplishes the feat. Broback has scored in double figures in 25 of her 32 games this season and 30 times in her career. She has reached double- digits in her last six straight games and in 15 of the last 19 games.
Minnesota’s Shannon Schonrock has made 68 3-point field goals this season. She now needs five to match the single-season record of 73 by Lindsay Lieser in 2001-02. Schonrock made 72 3-pointers last year.
Schonrock now has 254 career assists, one shy of tying Laura Coenen (1981-85) for eighth place in Minnesota history with 255.
Janel McCarville had a season-high five blocked shots, setting a new Minnesota career record with 195, surpassing the old career record of 192 set by Molly Tadich (1984-87). McCarville has 62 blocks this season and needs three more to tie her single-season record of 65 set last season.
McCarville surpassed the 1,800-point mark in her career; she ranks fifth-best in school history with 1,808.
McCarville now has 47 career double-doubles, one behind Molly Tadich’s career record of 48. It is McCarville’s 14th double-double of the season.
All-time in NCAA tournament play, four Gophers have posted a total of nine double- doubles. McCarville has six double-doubles in NCAA play, while Carol Ann Shudlick (1994), Corrin Von Wald (2002) and Lindsay Whalen (2004) have also posted double- doubles.
McCarville now needs three offensive rebounds to tie the school-record of 359 set by Angie Iverson in 1994-98.
McCarville has pulled down 1,192 career rebounds.
McCarville needs six assists to move into a tie for third place with 314.
McCarville has scored in double figures in 24 of her 30 games this season, including 13 of her last 16. She has reached double-digits 89 times in her career.
April Calhoun has had at least one assist in every game this season and has tallied four or more in 16 games, including six in Saturday’s victory, one shy of her season high of seven (against Illinois on Jan. 23).
Minnesota Postgame Press Conference Coach Quotes
Head coach Pam Borton on the win: “A great first win for us in the NCAA tournament. We’re happy to move on to the next round. We felt we were a little sloppy in the first (half), maybe a little rusty from the 11 or 12 days off. I think we got back into sync in the second half.”
Head coach Pam Borton on the second half spark of Janel McCarville: “I told her at halftime she needed to get us going in the second half. I don’t think we could have played any worse offensively in the first half. I told her she needed to take this game over and we need to be up by 10, and she did.”
Head coach Pam Borton on Jaime Broback being “feisty”: “I think she’s gotten tougher since she’s been here, and she’s still growing into that role. Jaime plays hard, and being around Janel (McCarville) has helped her. I knew Jaime had it in her last year as a freshman; we just ha
