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Coverage of the women's Final Four |
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First-round
game stories Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2001 Nebraska
Wesleyan 73, Carleton 51 The NCAA tournament win was the first in team history. The Prairie Wolves improved to 15-9 and will face Wartburg College (24-4) in a second-round game at Waverly, Iowa on Saturday. Carleton, ranked No. 11 nationally in the latest D3hoops.com Top 25 poll after winning the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the tournament, finished its season 22-5. Nebraska Wesleyan never trailed in the game against Carleton and held a 47-33 advantage on the boards. NWU claimed 18 offensive rebounds in the game, and like a pack of prairie wolves enduring a long, cold winter on the plains, they appeared hungry from the opening tip. "Nebraska Wesleyan played an exceptional game," Carleton Head Coach Tammy Metcalf-Filzen said. "They attacked from the get-go, and we played tentative." "We wanted to press and be physical which helped us get off to a great start," Nebraska Wesleyan Head Coach Brad White said. "It was pretty physical," Metcalf-Filzen said. "More so than we're used to, especially inside." Sparked by five early points from senior forward Summer Allen, NWU sprinted to an 11-4 lead. Allen finished with 14 points and seven rebounds. The Prairie Wolves stretched the lead to nine points twice, but a pair of buckets by Karissa Kramer pulled Carleton to within 25-20. After a timeout with 4:27 remaining in the first half, Nebraska Wesleyan outscored the Knights 13-4, capped by Mindy Seefeld's putback at the buzzer, pushing the lead to 38-24 at halftime. All the news was not good for the Prairie Wolves, however. Junior starting guard Ronda Hofmann, who scored eight first half points, injured her knee with five seconds left before halftime and will miss the remainder of the year. Hofmann, who was leading the team in steals, is the fourth player on the varsity team to suffer a torn ACL this year. Missed layups in
the first half had people wondering what the lead would "Some of it was jitters, and I was expecting to get fouled, but I wasn't," Oldehoeft said. "The teams we play tend to be more physical inside and put more ball pressure on the perimeter, but the guards were able to get me the all night." Oldehoeft heated up as the second half progressed, however, missing only twice after halftime, and the Prairie Wolves made 15 of 18 free throw attempts in the second half to win going away. "Winning this game means a lot, and not just to the players here now, but to the hundreds of players who have been in this program over the years," White said. "We kind of overwhelmed them," Oldehoeft said. "Maybe our record can be deceiving, but if we stay focussed, it¹s going to be tough to stop us now." Angie Grabowski and Kramer each scored 11 points to lead Carleton. Senior center Bridget Seegers added 10 points and nine rebounds. |
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