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Women's Basketball Tops Temple, 73-66 in OT
01/30/2003 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 30, 2003
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Three Richmond players recorded double-doubles to help lead Richmond to a 73-66 overtime victory over Temple University tonight at the Robins Center. The Spiders, winning their second consecutive Atlantic 10 contest, improve to 14-5, 5-3 in conference play, while Temple falls to 6-13, 2-6 in the A-10.
Spider Ebony Tanner (Garner, N.C) led all scorers with 29 points and grabbed 13 rebounds while reaching the 1,000-point milestone. The senior center is eleventh Richmond player to accomplish this feat and is just the fourth in Richmond women's basketball history to score 1,000 points and grab 500 rebounds.
Sophomore Kate Flavin (Englewood, Colo.) scored ten points and pulled down 12 rebounds while teammate Amber Goppert (Malone, N.Y.) added 15 points and ten boards.
Tanner scored her 1,000th-point just two minutes into the game with a lay-up to give the Spiders a three-point advantage. Richmond built a seven-point lead (10-3) before the Temple outscored the Spiders 11-3 over the following five minutes and twenty seconds to take their first lead of the contest (14-13). Temple stayed in control of the game for the remainder of the half before the Tanner hit a turnaround jumper in the paint with under a minute on the clock to give the Spiders a 26-25 advantage and set the halftime margin.
Richmond opened the half hitting their first six of seven shots to extend their lead to seven with just over three minutes gone by. The Spiders took their first double-digit lead (10) off a free throw from Tanner with 15:54 on the clock. Richmond led by as many as 14 but Temple went on a 13-3 scoring run to cut the deficit to four. The Spiders held onto the lead until the 1:54 mark when Stacey Smalls hit a three-point basket to tie the game at 57-57. Tanner hit a lay-up with 1:19 on the clock to give the Spiders a two-point advantage but Temple answered with four seconds remaining to tie the game back up. Richmond had one last opportunity to win the game, but was unable to get off a last-second shot.
The Spiders opened the extra period hitting two three-point field goals before building a nine-point advantage after free throws from Elise Ryder (Dayton, Ohio) with :52 remaining. The Spiders hit 4-of-6 from the charity stripe in the game's final :30 seconds to take the 73-66 win.
Temple was led by Cynthia Jordan's 17 points and four assists.
Richmond hosts Saint Joseph's University on Sunday, February 2, at 2:00 p.m.
