Earlier this month the GW basketball blogosphere gained a new member: Buff and Blog, featuring posts from members of the GW women’s basketball team.
Updates have been sparse thus far (hey, they’re busy), but sophomore Tiana Myers and redshirt junior Ivy Abiona have each written posts, with Myers adding a second yesterday. The blog also mentions that freshman Megan Nipe will be participating.
It should be interesting to read more from them as the year progresses.
The GW women’s basketball team’s redshirt junior forward Ivy Abiona had surgery Friday to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament, Assistant Sports Information Director Jesse Hooker confirmed yesterday.
The injury is yet another setback for Abiona, who sat out the 2007-08 season with a separate knee injury. The 6-foot-2 New Jersey native averaged 5.3 points and 5.8 rebounds in 20.7 minutes per game this past season. She played in all 31 of the Colonials’ contests, starting 16 of them. Her 27 blocks were second on the team.
According to Hooker, no plans have been made to apply for a medical hardship redshirt as Abiona remains eligible through the 2010-11 season. Any such decisions would be made then, he said.
As of now, the presumed loss of Abiona for this upcoming season looks as though it would leave GW without any upperclassmen on the roster. Stefani Munro, a member of the team for the past three seasons, “will no longer be a participating member of the team next season or the following season,” Hooker explained in an e-mail. She is remaining at the University, however, and will have her scholarship honored by the program.
There is still the possibility that Antelia Parrish, second on the team in scoring and rebounding last season, could return for the fall semester. Parrish was a senior last year and would clearly be the Colonials’ most experienced player. Hooker said that there was “no new news” regarding Parrish and that he is not aware of any timetable for a decision to be made.
This post was written by Hatchet staff writer Louis Nelson
After a disappointing end to the regular season and the Atlantic 10 conference tournament, the GW women’s basketball team left an arena disappointed once again Thursday, this time falling 97-94 in double overtime to Florida Gulf Coast University in the first round of the postseason Women’s National Invitational Tournament.
GW managed to force the first overtime after trailing by four with 11 seconds to play. Following a pair of Eagle free throws, senior Yolanda Lavender drove the length of the court for a lay up to bring the Colonials to within two with 3.3 seconds to play. GW got the ball back on an end line violation by FGCU, and senior Antelia Parrish made the Eagles pay, tying the game as time expired to force the first extra period.
Lavender again came through for GW at the end of the first overtime. With her team down two with nine seconds to play, Lavender went coast-to-coast for a lay up, tying the game at 84 to send it into a second overtime.
The second overtime proved to be too much for the Colonials. Lavender again tried to keep her team in it, bringing GW twithin one on a three-pointer with three seconds to play. GW fouled on the Eagles’s inbound pass, and FCGU converted the ensuing free throws, finally putting an end to GW’s season.
The Colonials were led by Lavender, who rebounded from her poor performance against Rhode Island in the A-10 tournament by scoring 27 points while grabbing nine rebounds and dishing out eight assists. Jessica Adair also played well in her final performance in a GW uniform, contributing 20 points in only 21 minutes. Redshirt sophomore Ivy Abiona scored a career high 14 and freshman Tara Booker had 12 to round out the Colonial players in double figures.
Even with four players in double figures, GW’s foul troubles kept the Eagles in the game. By the final buzzer, the Colonials had lost Booker, Parrish, Tiana Myers, and Jazmine Adair to fouls. Three other Colonials finished with four fouls. FGCU shot just under 60 percent from the line, making 24 of their 41 attempts.
The was the 10th straight year GW played in the postseason, and the 18th time in the past 19 seasons.
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GW’s athletic programs have once again earned high NCAA marks, with 13 of 19 teams earning perfect Graduation Success Rate Report scores, up two from a year ago.
As Coppin State closed what had been a nine-point gap against the GW women’s basketball team in the second half of Thursday’s game, there was one and only one collective memory GW head coach Mike Bozeman could cite as a rallying point for his young team: Tuesday’s season-opening win at North Texas.
8:56 p.m. Booker intercepts the inbound pass and that’s all, folks. The Colonials hang on to win 68-64 to move to 2-0 on the season. Check back at www.gwhatchet.com later for more.
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Head coach Mike Bozeman's young GW women's basketball team had held the lead for only 57 seconds all game in Tuesday's match-up at North Texas before 5-foot-3 freshman guard Danni Jackson hit two free throws to give the team a one-point lead with 1:25 to play.
BOSTON - Senior Damian Hollis began last season slowly, a fact that head coach Karl Hobbs said last week put the team "behind the eight ball" and in an early hole from which it was difficult to escape once Hollis got on track later in the season.
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