University of St. Thomas Athletics
Thursday, February 23
St. Paul, Minn.
7:00 p.m. Central
11-16,6-11Summit League
44
vs
64
North Dakota State
17-10,11-6Summit League
1
2
3
4
F
North Dakota St.
6
11
24
23
64
St. Thomas (MN)
8
10
9
17
44
Team Stats
NDSU
UST
FG%
.456
.367
3FG%
.333
.154
FT%
.625
.500
RB
41
27
TO
16
17
STL
7
4
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
14
FGM
5
3FGM
2
FTM
2
Pts
9
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
1
Pts
4
FGM
2
3FGM
0
FTM
0
Players Mentioned
C
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/ Women's Basketball
Photo by: Kylie Macziewski
Women’s Basketball falls to Bison 64-44 despite strong defensive start
2/23/2023 10:54:00 PM | Women's Basketball
St. Paul, Minn. – The Tommie Women's Basketball team held the Summit League's no. 3 ranked North Dakota State University to a low scoring game but fell just short of victory in a 64-44 loss at Schoenecker Arena on Thursday evening.
Senior Maggie Negaard led the Tommies with 14 points on the night, sinking the team's only 3-pointers for the Purple, converted five layups and two free throws, as well as tallying three blocks.
The Purple (11-16, 6-11 Summit) faced an early deficit, remaining without a score until Jo Langbehn converted a layup. With four field goals by the end of the first quarter, St. Thomas led North Dakota State 8-6. NDSU answered back in the second quarter, scoring 11 but still couldn't stop the Tommies, who led 18-17 going into halftime.
After the half, North Dakota State came out hot, shooting 47.4 percent from the floor (9-19), 100 percent from long range (1-1) and 100 percent from the free throw line (5-5), pushing the lead to double digits at the end of the third, 41-27.
Langbehn once again started the scoring for the Purple, this time in the fourth quarter, assisted by Jade Hill. Just 30 seconds later, Langbehn immediately answered a Bison layup, closing the lead to just 10 points, 41-31. The sophomore center finished the game with nine points and three rebounds.
The Tommies shot 36.7 percent from field goal range (18-49), 15.4 percent for from long range (2-13), and 50.0 percent from the free throw line (6-12) on the evening. The Bison won the rebound margin 42-25, including 13 offensive rebounds that led to 16 second-chan
Quoting Coach Ruth Sinn
"I think defensively the one thing that we did well is that we stuck to our principles, especially with the post-game. In the second half, we were overhelping off those posts, and every single time we over-helped, we got exposed. The first half we didn't do that as much, so I thought we did a nice job of it. I told the girls we held them from 2-6 from 3-point range. We should be able to be excited about that. If they're playing two-by-two, we should be good but unfortunately, we really got exposed in the interior."
Quoting Maggie Negaard
"We knew they were going to be a denial team, so we practiced a lot on that and credit to them, they got us down to the shot clock. I felt like when we did score, we were the aggressors and sometimes we start to get a little bit more casual and feel their pressure, way more than we should. Just staying, being the aggressor. Our defense is something we pride ourselves on and we were able to keep it a low-scoring game because we know they [North Dakota State] like to put points on the board, and we just didn't really take advantage of those stops. Credit to them but I think we could have capitalized a little bit more on those. We love to play in transition, so we could have capitalized a little bit more on that."
Senior Maggie Negaard led the Tommies with 14 points on the night, sinking the team's only 3-pointers for the Purple, converted five layups and two free throws, as well as tallying three blocks.
The Purple (11-16, 6-11 Summit) faced an early deficit, remaining without a score until Jo Langbehn converted a layup. With four field goals by the end of the first quarter, St. Thomas led North Dakota State 8-6. NDSU answered back in the second quarter, scoring 11 but still couldn't stop the Tommies, who led 18-17 going into halftime.
After the half, North Dakota State came out hot, shooting 47.4 percent from the floor (9-19), 100 percent from long range (1-1) and 100 percent from the free throw line (5-5), pushing the lead to double digits at the end of the third, 41-27.
Langbehn once again started the scoring for the Purple, this time in the fourth quarter, assisted by Jade Hill. Just 30 seconds later, Langbehn immediately answered a Bison layup, closing the lead to just 10 points, 41-31. The sophomore center finished the game with nine points and three rebounds.
The Tommies shot 36.7 percent from field goal range (18-49), 15.4 percent for from long range (2-13), and 50.0 percent from the free throw line (6-12) on the evening. The Bison won the rebound margin 42-25, including 13 offensive rebounds that led to 16 second-chan
Quoting Coach Ruth Sinn
"I think defensively the one thing that we did well is that we stuck to our principles, especially with the post-game. In the second half, we were overhelping off those posts, and every single time we over-helped, we got exposed. The first half we didn't do that as much, so I thought we did a nice job of it. I told the girls we held them from 2-6 from 3-point range. We should be able to be excited about that. If they're playing two-by-two, we should be good but unfortunately, we really got exposed in the interior."
Quoting Maggie Negaard
"We knew they were going to be a denial team, so we practiced a lot on that and credit to them, they got us down to the shot clock. I felt like when we did score, we were the aggressors and sometimes we start to get a little bit more casual and feel their pressure, way more than we should. Just staying, being the aggressor. Our defense is something we pride ourselves on and we were able to keep it a low-scoring game because we know they [North Dakota State] like to put points on the board, and we just didn't really take advantage of those stops. Credit to them but I think we could have capitalized a little bit more on those. We love to play in transition, so we could have capitalized a little bit more on that."
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