--m-" 10 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Blue's Gandy ices victory at the line By Megan Kolodgy Daily Sports Writer The Michigan women's basketball team spent last night's matchup with Cincinnati in a battle of wills. But after three ties and eight lead changes, the Wolverines edged out the Bearcats, 73- 69, but not without a little help from their new coach. With her team down by as many as seven points in the second half, first- year Michigan coach Cheryl Burnett invoked the much referred to "sixth man," bringing the Crisler Arena crowd to life by raising her arms in the air and stomping her feet. Her Wolverines finally caught up with the Bearcats when sophomore Rachael Carney nailed one of her three 3-pointers, tying the game at 51 with 12:57 remaining. Michigan's work to penetrate Cincinnati's zone defense paid off, as it shot a remark- able 60 percent from the field. After losing the opening jump ball, junior Tabitha Pool initiated the scor- ing with a smooth jumpshot from the edge of the key. Cincinnati responded with a basket of its own, but Michigan junior Sierra Hauser-Price put her team back out in front, where it remained for a much of the half. Michigan had four fouls in the first 3:15. Burnett pulled senior co-captain and leading scorer Jennifer Smith after she committed two fouls in four minutes. Senior co-captain Stephanie Gandy made up for Smith's absence, scoring six of the Wolverines' 12 points. Michigan spent the next several min- utes with a comfortable six-point lead. "When our players got in some foul trouble in the first half, and we had players on the floor who didn't have as much experience, I think that was the key to the ballgame," Burnett said. "Those contributions from those kids off the bench to maintain and give us the lead ... helped us play a very intelligent basketball game." Then, Cincinnati's shooting spree began. The Bearcats scored nine unanswered points and took the lead for the first time, 33-32. Propelled by Gandy's on-target shooting, the Wolverines went score- for-score with the Bearcats for the rest of the half and trailed Cincinnati by a score of 37-36. Returning from the lockerroom rar- ing to go, the Wolverines took the court ready to redeem themselves after an inconsistent first half This proved to be no easy task. The second half was almost a mirror image of the first, with Michigan trying desperately to catch up to the Bearcats, who held a similarly comfortable six-point lead at 59-53 halfway through the second half. Michigan took the lead on a Gandy three with 7:08 left, which put it ahead 60-59. Fittingly, it was Gandy who sealed the deal for Michigan. With seven seconds remaining, she went to the line and sank two free throws to clinch the victory for the Wolverines. "No sweat," said Gandy, who fin- ished the night with 23 points. "We're under pressure situations like that all the time in practice." Cincinnati (69) FG FT REB MIN M-A M-A 0-T A F PTS Harvey 23 0 1 020 0-2 4 1 0 Young 38 1-4 0-0 1-10 1 1 2 Stephens 19 3-5 0-1 3-6 0 3 6 Merrill 35 7-16 4-4 0-0 0 5 18 King 39 10-21 2-3 0-1 3 1 26 Knoch 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 00 0 Slaughter 27 3-6 2-3 4-8 0 2 8 Humphries 18 4-7 0-0 1-1 2 2 9 Totals 200 2860 8-11 11.31 ±015 69 FG%: .467. FT%: .727. 3-point FG: 5-14,_357 (King 4- 11, Humphries 1-2, Slaughter 01). Blocks: 4 (Merrill 3, Humphries). Steals: 6 (Merrill 3, Young 2, Humphries). Turnovers: 14 (Stephens 5, Harvey 3, Slaughter 2, Humphnes 2, Merrill). Technical Fouls: none. MICHIGAN (73) FG FT REB MIN M-A M-A 0-T A F PTS Pool 33 4-13 2-3 2-11 3 4 10 Helvey 18 0-2 0.0 0-0 0 2 0 Gandy 37 9-16 2-4 1-8 4 1 23 Hauser-Price 6 2-2 0-0 0-0 0 2 4 Smith 23 3-3 0-0 1-2 0 3 11 Andrews 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Carney 34 3-6 1-2 0-2 3 1 10 Reams 26 3.5 5-5 2-5 1 2 11 Burlin 13 0-2 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 McPhilamy 9 2-3 0-0 1-1 0 0 4 Totals 200 26-52 1418 9.33 12 ±6 73 FG%: .500. FT%: .778. 3-polnt FG: 7-14_ 500 (Carmey 3.5, Pool 2-3, Gandy 2-4, Burin 0.2). Blocks: I (Gandy). Steals: 4 (Gandy 2, Pool, Reams). Turnovers: 17 (Gandy 4, Helvey 3, Reams 3, Carney 2, Pool, Hauser- Price, Burdin). Technical fouls: none. Cincinnati.........................37 32 -69 Michigan...........................36 37 - 73 SHUBRA OHRI/Daily Michigan's Tabitha Pool dives on a defender. The Woivelnes beat CincInnati, 73.69, last night. II t COUPON PAGE ! 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