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Shades
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sigur3
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 Posted: 01/24/15 5:55 pm ::: |
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| BC led by 5 late in the fourth, but then Pitt went on a 15-0 run. Looks like the home team will pull this one out.
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mzonefan
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| Posted: 01/24/15 5:58 pm ::: |
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| Good game. Pitt won 78-70. Pink Day.
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Youth Coach
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| Posted: 01/24/15 7:31 pm ::: |
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I watched the game on TV...*BANGS HEAD ON KEYBOARD*
BC could've won this game but stupid decision making just killed them. And on a night when they get a career high 14 points from Karima Gabriel in the post.
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Fighting Artichoke
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| Posted: 01/24/15 8:58 pm ::: |
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| Youth Coach wrote: |
I watched the game on TV...*BANGS HEAD ON KEYBOARD*
BC could've won this game but stupid decision making just killed them. And on a night when they get a career high 14 points from Karima Gabriel in the post.
Maddening! |
Maddening because they were so close, but overall a very encouraging road loss for the Eagles. This Pitt team is better than recent Pitt teams. I guess that's not saying much, but Pitt really has improved incrementally the past two seasons under McConnell-Serio. The present incarnation isn't bad.
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Youth Coach
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| Posted: 01/25/15 10:33 am ::: |
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This is the majority of what I wrote about the game in my blog post this morning:
"Sadly for BC, the momentum from Thursday's upset didn't carry over to their Saturday afternoon game against Pitt. They sure had their chances but simply couldn't put away the Panthers or even pull away from them for too long on their way to a 78-70 loss.
In the first half, the Eagles built a 27-18 lead but saw Pitt close the half on a 21-7 run to leave Boston College down 39-34 at the break.
Karima Gabriel had a big game for the Eagles with a career high 14 points and 9 rebounds. She scored 8 of the first 10 points for BC in the second half.
The back and forth nature of the game saw BC take a 67-62 lead and then watch their offense go nearly non-existent as Pitt closed out the game on a 16-3 run. The loss leaves BC at 9-11 and 1-6 in the ACC.
Pitt's Briana Kiesel scored 29 points (1 off her career high) and dished out 8 assists. Yacine Diop had 18 points and 11 boards and Monica Wignot added another 18 points and 9 rebounds. If BC had been able to contain even one of the three players, they would've had a better chance to win the game.
Instead, I watched as the team reverted back to making a lot of the same mistakes they've been making all season. Poor decisions and turnovers (17 in the game) that included an inexplicable number of travelling violations are the two biggest things that stuck out to me. More than once, there was also a seeming inability to get out to defend perimeter shots or to slide over with some help defense when a Pitt player beat their individual defender.
The most galling thing about the way BC lost was they got another game where they had some rather unexpected low post support in their offense. Katie Quandt added 4 points, so for the Eagles that gave them 18 points down low. And how does that get offset? Late in the game, the guards (Ashley Kelsick in particular) try to drive the lane against Wignot, who blocks the shots so casually, you'd think she was back playing volleyball (as she did for four years)." |
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