2012 NCAA Tournament: Georgetown, Georgia Tech advance to second round
The first round of play in the 2012 NCAA Women’s Basketball
Championship Tournament took place at Carmichael Arena in Chapel Hill,
N.C. on Sunday as the #5 Georgetown Hoyas met the #12 Fresno State
Bulldogs and the...
In-Game Notes:
In the second game of the day during first-round play at the 2012 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Tournament in Chapel Hill, N.C., ACC tournament finalist and #4 seed, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will face the #14 Sacred Heart Pioneers.
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| Sacred Heart warms up - Peter Koutroumpis, PKS Consulting |
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| ACC Finalist Georgia Tech getting reps in before tip-off - Peter Koutroumpis, PKS Consulting |
Tip-off in 30 minutes.
1st half:
- Georgia Tech wins the tip as Sasha Goodlett gets up there first
- After first 90 seconds of play, the Yellow Jackets lead 3-2
- The Pioneers add another basket and lead 4-3 before Goodlett scores a layup and gets the foul - leading 5-4 with 16:14 left
- Yellow Jackets applying their zone defense early to test the Pioneers' perimeter shooting - it's working so far until Ericka Norman drops one to tie the score 7-7
- Pioneers score an uncontested layup to take their first lead of the game - 9-7 with 13:55 to play
- Both teams continue to miss easy shots battling in the paint and trying to get a fell for each others' game
- Sacred Heart moving the ball at mid-court as theYellow Jackets try to trap - the Pioneers can't hit from three while Georgia Tech working to get its early baskets inside as Chelsea Regins tries to score a layup and gets a FT - she misses it
- Pioneers drive the hoop but take the offensive charge and the Yellow Jackets come the other way and score twice - Georgia Tech now lead 13-9 with 11:14 to play
- After the TO, the Yellow Jackets' Sydney Wallace hits a big three-pointer and extends the lead to 16-9
- Goodlett gets a pass inside and an easy layup over everyone
- Sacred Heart still scrapping but the GT defense is starting to show its effectiveness - Yellow Jackets lead 18-10 with 9:15 remaining
- Wallace hits another two-pointer and the Pioneers are trying to get the ball inside against a long GT squad - Callan Taylor hits a three to break the Pioneers' recent drought - Yellow Jackets lead 22-12 with 7:21 to play
- Yellow Jackets defense continues to stymie Sacred Heart but it is still within reach as GT lead is 24-12
- Georgia Tech forcing the Pioneers to pick up the offensive pace of ball movement and creating turnovers from it - GT moving the ball well in transition and Metra Walthour hits her first FG and three-pointer of the game - extends lead to 29-12 with 5:44 to go
- Pioneers offense stuck at 12 since around the 10 minute mark - long drought as Wallace hits another three-pointer for GT - lead now is twenty - 32-12
- GT causes a Pioneers turnover and inbounding with little opposition from Sacred Heart who is showing some fatigue already
- However Gabrielle Washington drops a three-pointer for the Pioneers - ending the drought
- Wallace drops another three-pointer from the right side - Goodlett sitting for GT with Regins and D. Hamilton-Carter are getting PT - depth in the post that the Pioneers are still struggling with
- Georgia Tech with a double-up score - 36-18 as the first half is coming to a close
- Sacred Heart manages to get a FT with 37 seconds left - 36-19 in GT's favor
- GT turns it over on their possession and the Pioneers score to reduce their deficit to 15 points at the half
Interesting notes at the half:
Georgia Tech: shooting 13-26 (50%) - leading scorer - Sydney Wallace - 13 points
Sacred Heart: shooting 8-24 (33.3 %) - leading scorer - Gabrielle Washington - 8 points
2nd half:
- Sacred Heart puts the first points of the half on the board - a long two-pointer by Taylor - Yellow Jackets up by 16 points after the first 90 seconds of play
- The Yellow Jackets not laying off on the mid-court trap and playing like its a one-point game - extending the lead to 20
- Pioneers have missed on five straight possession since Taylor scored
- The Yellow Jackets starting to experience some shooting problems turning the ball over and putting the Pioneers on offense
- Yellow Jackets get a good set offense and score with Goodlett on the inside and then create SHU turnover as Dawm Maye gets an easy layup - Yellow Jackets lead 47-25 with 14:15 left in the half
- Big press by Georgia Tech which the Pioneers break to get up the court but can't finish on three different shot attempts and rebounds before the Yellow Jackets bring it down
- Wallacee comes off he wing and with two defenders in front of her drops a jumper - GT now leads 49-27
- Sacred Heart scores a layup and then Wallace drops a three-point shot which is then matched by Sacred Heart's Kiley Evans three-pointer - Yellow Jackets lead 52-31 with 11:49 to play
- Pioneers working hard but Yellow Jackets force another turnover at half-court and Wallace nails another three-pointer - lead extends to 62-33 with 9:20 to go
- Sacred Heart is staring to make some shots on their last two possession but the Yellow Jackets score some as well - 66-39 Yellow Jackets with 7:53 to play
- Sacred Heart's Blair Koniszewski drops a two-pointer and worked hard for it
- GT's Bennett matches it with two FT's
- Georgia Tech eating up time on the shot clock working the ball around and then inside to Tjasa Gortnar who is fouled - she hits them both - Yellow Jackets now lead 71-41 with 5:41 to go
- Koniszewski hits a great three-pointer form the far wing and then SHU steals the ball and Ericka Norman scores na uncontested layup - 5-0 run for SHU there
- Morgan Merriman drops a hook shot inside and the Pioneers' 7-0 has them trailing 71-48 with 4:18 to play
- Sacred Heart turns it over on their possession after the media timeout but GT doesn't capitalize on it - SHU ball again
- Tight single-coverage D applied by by the Yellow Jackets to keep them moving and eating up more game time
- Yellow Jackets working the ball around on offense but not rushing the shot and then Wallace hits another three-pointer - GT leads 74-48 with 1:43 to play
- The Yellow Jackets makes substitutions to work in the rest of the bench on the floor - still applying tight single-coverage and then score a layup which the Pioneers match - 76-50 with 30 seconds to play
- As time is running down, final substitutions for the Pioneers
- As the clock winds down the Pioneers take one last shot, but miss
