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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 10, 2001

Women's Basketball Falls
To Duluth in NCAA's

Bulldogs' Last Second Steal Dooms Lopers

Kearney, NE – The University of Nebraska at Kearney women’s basketball teams late rally fell short as the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs ended the Lopers season in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, 61-57, Saturday night in Grand Forks, ND.

UNK, the second seed in the North Central Region finishes the year with a 27-3 record. UMD, the 6^th seed in the regoin, improves to 21-10 and will play No. 1 seed North Dakota tomorrow night for the region championship. The Lopers are now 3-7 all-time in the NCAAs and have lost three straight in the tourney. Those losses have come by just a combined seven points.

Duluth had its biggest lead of the game, 59-50, with 2:54 left when UNK made its move. The Lopers made three straight shots, cutting the lead to 59-57 on a Beth Swift (13 points, 8 rebounds) jumper with 46 seconds remaining. In the late run, the Lopers forced two 25 second violations.

UNK had a chance to tie the game after Duluth’s Jamie Bell missed a three with 14 seconds left. After a timeout, Swift brought the ball up court and got by UMD’s Katie Anderson but she recovered and stole the ball from Swift. Laura Hanson made two free throws to secure the win for UMD.

A defensive struggle in the second half, UNK held UMD to just 30 percent shooting (6 of 20) after halftime and didn’t allow Kim Toewe (13 points) or Kate Madrinich (18 points) to make a single field goal in the final 20 minutes. The duo combined to score 63 points in a win over Southwest State Friday night.

But, the Lopers offense also struggled. UNK was held without a field goal for over 9 1/2 minutes in the second half (12:14 to 2:40) and the team tallied 10 points over the final 12 minutes of the game. In fact, both teams didn’t make a single shot from the floor in a five-minute span in the second half.

UNK started off the game with a bang, grabbing a 6-0 lead a forcing Duluth to call a timeout. The ‘Dawgs ran off the game’s next eight points and never trailed again.

Contact: Peter Yazvac yazvacpa@unk.edu
Media Relations Director  (308) 865-8334

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