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Women’s Basketball Splits Doubleheader Weekend
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The Red earns its third win against an Ivy opponent with its win against Dartmouth on Friday Feb. 17.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/womens-basketball/page/2/)
The Red earns its third win against an Ivy opponent with its win against Dartmouth on Friday Feb. 17.
The Red could not find an answer for Brown’s offense, losing the game 76-48.
After winning its first Ivy game, women’s basketball lost to Princeton and Penn.
Women’s basketball picked up its second Ivy win against Brown.
After beating Dartmouth in its first Ivy game, the Red has lost five in a row.
“I think our team as a whole is really good at knowing their role,” Parker-Hall said. “So, when we prepare for games, we do scout and our scout team is really good in practices to help mimic who we will play.”
On a dreary Wednesday night in February, Newman Arena unexpectedly came to life in the fourth quarter of a razor thin, back-and-forth contest between Women’s Basketball and the Quakers of Pennsylvania. In a game where each team performed almost identically on paper in field goal attempts (23-22), rebounds (38-36), turnovers (13-16) and assists (13-15), there is one glaring difference on the statsheet: UPenn (12-13, 7-6) attempted 20 free throws compared to the Red’s (9-15, 4-9) eight attempts at the charity stripe.
To make matters worse, the gulf between free throw attempts was nonexistent heading into the fourth quarter of a one-point game. In fact, trailing 51-50 at the end of the third quarter, the Red had visited the line six times compared to the Quakers’ four free throw attempts. In a final period defined by controversial calls, 12 of the Quakers’ 19 points came at the line, while the Red posted a meager seven points with only two free throw attempts in the quarter. With this fourth quarter advantage, UPenn ultimately went home with a conference win, defeating the Red 70-57.
Women’s basketball got back into the win column with a win against Brown, completing a series sweep.
As part of the University’s announcement that campus would move to alert level red, Cornell announced Tuesday morning that the men’s and women’s basketball games scheduled for Sunday at Newman Arena were canceled.
“I was so excited to finally have a real season and settle into a routine here at Cornell,” said junior guard Olivia Snyder. “Even though we are a new group, I have full confidence in my teammates and our ability to win as a team.”