University of Missouri
Green Bay
Tigers Rally To Down UW-Green Bay
12/30/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Dec. 30, 2001
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COLUMBIA, Mo. - With the game tied at 72 and less than one minute remaining, Kerensa Barr was open at the top of the key. Barr, a junior guard on the University of Missouri women's basketball team, drained the 3-point field goal to give the Tigers a 75-72 lead with 53 seconds remaining.
Barr would score four more points, all via the free-throw line, to give Missouri a 79-72 victory over Wisconsin-Green Bay Sunday at the Hearnes Center. Barr finished the game with 15 points, a career-high tying nine assists and a team-high seven rebounds. The win gives Missouri a 9-2 record and 18 straight non-conference home wins.
"I thought it was a pretty big '3' I hit to put us in the lead but I thought we had a pretty balanced attack all night," said Barr, who hails from West Plains, Mo. Barr has scored 10 or more points in each of the Tigers' 11 games this season and in 14 consecutive games overall. "Angie Carter came in in the first half and gave us a huge lift defensively. Tracy (Lozier) came in got some steals and hit a big shot and I know 'Nat' (Natalie Bright) hit a clutch shot. I thought Melanie (Fisher) did a great job in the second half developing a presence inside. I scored at the end but we had a number of people step up to keep us in the game."
After Missouri took a 12-11 lead on a Barr layup, UW-Green Bay took control of the first half. The Phoenix, aided by 9-of-13 field goal shooting, went on a 10-3 run to take a 21-15 lead. UW-Green Bay eventually took a 33-26 lead with four minutes and 37 seconds remaining in the first half after two free throws by Amanda Leonhard. The Tigers battled back, scoring 12 of the game's next 14 points to take a 38-35 lead when Barr converted after a missed free throw by Evan Unrau. Carter, who scored six points - all in the first half, and Wannette Smith each scored two points to give MU a 42-39 halftime lead.
UW-Green Bay opened the second half with a 10-2 run to take a 49-44 lead. Leonhard and Kristy Loiselle each scored four points in that run. The Phoenix eventually pushed the lead to nine points, 63-54, on a basket by Chandra Johnson with 9:28 left. Tracy Lozier (So., Leawood, Kan.) then went to work for the Tigers, scoring seven of MU's next 14 points. Lozier sank her second 3-point field goal of the game to give the Tigers a 68-65 lead.
The Phoenix tied the game, 70-70, and 72-72, with baskets by Mandy Stowe and Leonhard before Barr's 3-point field goal broke the tie.
Missouri opens Big 12 Conference play Sunday (Jan. 6) against Oklahoma State with a 2 p.m. game in Stillwater, Okla.
