While most students at Boston University went back to work today, the women’s basketball team has been working hard right through the holidays. The Terriers (8-7, 1-3 America East) played seven games over the break, including a game yesterday against the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The stretch included the beginning of the America East conference schedule, along with two tough non-conference games at Case Gymnasium.
After starting the season 6-2 — its best start in seven years — BU welcomed the highly touted Hawks of Saint Joseph’s University to the Roof on Dec. 21. After a two-week layoff, the Terriers came out strong in the first half and trailed 29-23 at the break. But Hawks senior forward Susan Moran helped her team pull away in the second half, finishing with 34 points in a 59-47 victory.
Terrier senior guard Dia Dufault scored two quick three-pointers five minutes into the second half to pull BU to within one, but the Hawks outscored the Terriers 24-11 in the final 15 minutes, including a 14-0 run with eight minutes to go. Dufault was the only Terrier in double figures, with 13 points, while sophomore forward Marisa Moseley pounded the boards for 11 rebounds.
The Terriers closed out their non-conference schedule with two games in two different years, traveling to Central Connecticut University on Dec. 29, and hosting the Green Wave of Tulane University on Jan. 2. The two games could not have been any more different.
In the first game, BU destroyed the Blue Devils of Central Connecticut, 82-48, as sophomore Katie Terhune led five players in double figures with 19 points. The team shot the lights out at 45.5 percent, including a 50 percent performance from the three-point line. The Terriers worked hard on the other end of the floor as well, forcing 34 turnovers and snagging 19 steals, both season highs.
In their first game of 2002, the Terriers played their second Top 25 opponent of the season. After losing a tough game at then No. 11 Baylor University earlier in the year, BU hosted No. 23 Tulane on Jan. 2. Playing without Dufault, their third-leading scorer, the Terriers were in for a tough night.
Green Wave junior center Teana McKiver helped Tulane jump to a 47-26 lead at the half. The 6-feet 3-inch McKiver dominated inside, shooting seven for eight from the field in the first half. The Green Wave won the battle in the paint all night long, scoring 38 points from the lane, and outrebounding the Terriers 48-31. Terhune led all scorers with 26, while sophomore guard Courtney Jones added 13 points and five assists.
The Terriers traveled to the University of Vermont on Jan. 5 to open their America East season. Entering with a 7-4 record, the Terriers lost to the Catamounts, 69-54. Vermont, which was the consensus preseason favorite in the America East, led by 12 at the half, and by as much as 16 early in the second.
But BU answered in the second and went on a furious 16-6 run to lead by one with 11:26 left in the game. Terhune led the Terriers with 12 of her game-high 18 during the six-minute run, but the team could not stop the Catamounts, who put together a strong six-minute stretch with a 17-2 run of their own.
After being outrebounded 40-23 by the Catamounts, the team grabbed 45 boards in an impressive 66-58 win over the Hawks of Hartford on Jan. 7 at Case Gym. Even though the Hawks were picked to finish behind only Vermont in the conference, the Terriers came out fighting, led by freshman Adrienne Norris, who scored a career- and game-high 18 points off the bench to go along with a game-high 11 boards for her first career double-double.
The Hawks, down by as much as 19 in the second half, gave the Terriers a scare near the end, but BU answered from the free throw line. After only 15 attempts against Vermont, including just two in the first half, the Terriers became more aggressive, sealing the game with an 18-for-26 performance from the stripe in the second half. Adding to the scoring for BU was Terhune with 13points, and Moseley with 11.
With a 1-1 conference record, the Terriers ventured to New York over the weekend for their first ever meetings with two new conference foes. BU traveled to central New York on Friday for a meeting with the Bearcats of the State University of New York at Binghamton. Both teams came in with 1-1 records in the conference, but it was the Bearcat defense that was the story, holding the Terriers to just over 25 percent from the field in the game, on its way to a 64-40 victory.
Binghamton, an impressive 10-3 in their first Division 1 season, held BU to only one field goal in the final 17 minutes of the first half. The Terriers were unable to climb out of a deep hole after shooting 3-for-24 in the first half for 12.5 percent. Terhune led the team with 15, followed by freshman Larissa Parr with eight. No other Terrier had more than five points.
After the tough loss, the Terriers traveled to Long Island to face another newcomer, the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Despite their 1-2 conference mark, BU was armed with the fact they entered the game with a 5-0 record following a loss this season.
Make that 5-1.
Yesterday, BU fell to the Seawolves, 67-60. The Terriers put up a fight at the end, when Norris and junior Alison Argentieri each hit three pointers to cut the defecit to two. Argentieri and Terhune each had 15 to lead the Terriers, while Jones added five assists. Now 1-3 in the conference, the Terriers look to rebound Sunday when they host cross-town rival Northeastern University.
After earning the America East Player of the Week honor for the week of Nov. 19, sophomore sensation Katie Terhune won the award again for the week from Dec. 3-10. After scoring 21 against No. 12 Baylor University on Dec. 2, Terhune busted out for a career-high 33 in the Terriers’ 76-67 win at Yale University. In that win, Terhune was three-for-four from three-point land, and 14-for-16 from the charity stripe. She single-handedly squelched a 19-5 Yale run in the second half, scoring 14 of her 33 in the final eight minutes. Terhune leads the conference with about 20 points a game.
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