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Missouri Downs Kansas in Overtime Thriller
2/10/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 10, 2001
Columbia, Mo.-Rivalries prove the best catalyst for exhilarating competition. Today the Tiger women's basketball team showed its competitive edge against the Kansas Jayhawks pulling out an 89-84 overtime thriller. The win culminates a game in which Mizzou topped four highs, including a new all-time attendance record with 10,126 fans.
Missouri started the game with a rough first half shooting just 44 percent from the field. Kansas shot 68 percent scoring its first 16 points netting 8-for-8 attempts. Despite the low field goal percentage, the Tigers knocked down 6-for-11 3-pointers to stay in the game. Senior Tracy Franklin led Mizzou in the half reaching double digits sinking a 3-pointer with 39 seconds to go. She ended the period with 11 points and closed the Jayhawks' lead, 44-35.
The Tigers jumped into the second half with their characteristic fire. Mizzou started the period with six unanswered points. The teams battled through a back-and-forth struggle. Despite being down by as much as six points, the Tigers continued their fight. With 36 seconds left in the game, senior Marlena Williams nailed a jumper to tie the game 78-78 and send the contest into overtime.
Missouri dominated the extended game-its first this season. Williams scored six of MU's final points to seal the Tigers' 89-84 victory.
Missouri shot 49 percent from the field and 50 percent from 3-point range in the game. The Tigers also set a Missouri season record netting 11 3-point field goals. The mark tops their previous record of 10 set against Iowa State (1/17). The win brings Mizzou to 15-7 with a 6-5 Big 12 Conference mark on the year. Kansas is 9-13 and 6-6 in league play.
Missouri had four players score in double figures. Franklin led the Tigers with 24 points setting a new career-high. The feat tops her previous career-high of 18 points against Eastern Illinois earlier in the season. Franklin shot 58 percent from the field netting 7-of-12 shots. She also downed 5-for-8 from 3-point range.
Senior Amanda Lassiter was second on the team scoring 22 points. It marks the 13th 20-point game for the forward and her 22nd in double figures. Lassiter was 4-for-7 from the 3-point arc.
Williams and Kerensa Barr each scored 13 points in the game. The mark is a career-high for Barr. She tied her previous career mark with 12 points against Arkansas. She was 5-for-8 from the field and 1-for-2 from 3-point range. MU's starting point guard also played 41 minutes without a single turnover.
Freshman Evan Unrau led the Tigers with seven rebounds. She also scored nine points hitting 100 percent from the floor with 4-for-4.
Head Coach Cindy Stein
"Every game is extremely important for us to reach the goals we have set in front of ourselves. Every time we play KU, we are always excited and want to come out on top. This gets us a step closer to where we want to be. It is a tremendous feeling. As a coach watching our team execute the things we've been working on, those situations toward regulation to get back into the game and into overtime, I was just extremely pleased."
"It is a memorable win in the fact that we were able to do it in front of 10,000 people. This was a very special crowd and I think they helped us. They were into the game and we're appreciative of their efforts. I also think it is extremely special any time we can beat KU. "
"Tracy's been stepping it up. We see this kind of Tracy every day in practice. That is why it has been a frustration as a coach when we're not seeing it in a game. But we know she is very capable of this kind of performance."
"Kerensa really held us together in the first half. She had some great drives to the basket. We were struggling a little bit offensively and Kerensa really came through on that."
