6B - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, February 9, 1998 WOMEN's BASKETBALL Big Ten standings Team Conf. Overall Illinois 9-2 15-6 Purdue 7-3 14-6 Iowa 7-3 10-9 .Penn State 7-4 13-8 Wisconsin 6-5 17-6 Michigan 6-5 14-7 Ohio State 6-5 13-7 Indiana 6-5 15-9 Michigan State 3-7 14-7 Northwestern 1-10 6-17 Minnesota 1-10 4-17 Yesterday's scores (home team in CAPS) Michigan 62, PURDUE 60 Michigan State 74, OHIO STATE 72 INDIANA 58, Penn State 55 Illinois 75, MINNESOTA 67 Iowa 79, NORTHWESTERN 72 IN Rlii n4. 1UiaF~rr By Andy Latack Daily Sports Writer WEST LAFAYETTE - It does not take a great coaching mind to figure out how to stop the Purdue women's basketball team. One glance at any Boilermaker box score and it becomes obvious - contain Stephanie White and Ukari Figgs. Noticing this is the easy part. Actually doing it is something completely different. Just ask one of the many Big Ten teams the backcourt duo has burned. ----------------- Averaging 20.7 and 14.4 points per Basketball game, respectively, White and Figgs are among the conference's leading scorers. rommentaly White is second in Big Ten scoring. ----------------- Like her peers, Michigan coach Sue Guevara realizes the importance of shutting down the two - and just how unrealistic that ideal is will be. "You know those two are going to get their points," Guevara said. "We just try to make it hard for them to get the ball, and, once they get it, we just had to make sure we contested their shots" And Guevara is right - White and Figgs will get their points. But against Michigan yesterday, they had to take a lot of shots to get them. Using pesky defense and switching on every screen, Michigan ensured that Purdue's potent backcourt didn't get too many open looks at the basket. Figgs did reach her average of 14 points per game, and White's 15 weren't far from her usual 21. But, with White shooting an icy 5-of-20 from the floor, and Figgs barely better at 6-of-16, Michigan's stingy defense evoked memories of the Wolverines' Jan. 9 victory over the Boilermakers at Crisler, when the Wolverines limited the duo to 14-of-40 from the floor. "I think we were getting pretty good looks," Figgs said of the V V 11ILL;) X. Igga duo's shooting performance. "They switched defenses on us the second half, but for the most part our shots just weren't, falling." White gave the Wolverines' defense credit for containing them, and also noted the importance of a balanced offense. *- "When the other team is playing a triangle-and-two, there are a lot of open shots for other people," White said of the, Wolverines' defense, which played White and Figgs man-to man and the rest of the team in a zone. "If they knock there: down, you can't stop us. If they don't, well, you saw what hap. pened today." Despite constant hassling by Michigan's defensive schemer White and Figgs had moments yesterday when it was clear why the two are always on the tip of opposing coaches' tongues. Michigan was enjoying its biggest lead of the game, 53-45, with 6:24 left. Figgs picked up two quick fouls, silencing the home crowd. Just as quick, she single-handedly spurred a furi- ous Boilermaker comeback with two layups. When the dust settled, the Wolverines were frantically cling- ing to a one-point lead. White also led a comeback of her own earlier in the second half. After Michigan jumped out to an early 33-29 lead in th second frame, White put on a dazzling move, spinning arou Michigan's Molly Murray, drawing the foul and sinking the layup. White hit the free throw and dished out an assist in each of the Boilermakers' next possessions to put Purdue up 38-37. It would be the Boilermakers' last lead. When it counted in the final three minutes of the game, Figgs was held scoreless and White was held to just a pair of free throws. "We knew that the key to stopping Purdue is to put as much pressure as you can on White and Figgs, and make everyone else shoot the basketball," Guevara said. It worked in the first meeting, and it worked again yesterd S Michiganheld Purdue's two leaing S scorers. Stephanie White and Figgs, e 1B in check. The two combined for 29 7-5, 14-8) for the points, several below their combined ason. average of 35. Although the 8-0 very quickly Boilermakers pulled down 16 offen- vhittled away at it, sive rebounds, they managed to shoot a time," Guevara only 37 percent from the floor, far to get out of here. below their 47-percent season aver= ig, long time since age. Michigan guard Ann Lemire and the Wolverines used stifling defense against Purdue in yesterday's two-point victory. 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"We knew that Purdue had to have the basketball so they were going to do everything they could to get it," Guevara said. "We had to grab it, we had to pivot, and we had to come make the pass and we knew that they had to foul." On the defensive end of the floor, The Wolverines had much m success from the field, making The Wolverines had much mc success from the field, making percent of their shots. Michigan relied heavily on peneti tion and the inside game, two aspe< that had been lacking in recent loss But Michigan again struggled to hc onto the ball, giving up 23 turnove including 13 in the first half. "I thought we guarded them" better than we did" in Ann Ar Figgs said. "They were just hittii some tough shots. Stacey Thom was hitting some tough shots goi into the lane and you just can't gua that." Michigan center Pollyanna Joh contributed 13 points and rebounds, but it was Michigar guards that shouldered the bulk of t scoring responsibilities. 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