Word: basketeer
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...Markley’s the best forward in the league at running the floor, but she can also hit the little 10-foot jumper and post up near the basket,” Delaney-Smith said. “She’s pretty unstoppable, in my opinion...
Though only eight seconds had passed—and Crimson freshman guard Christian Webster would respond with a three of his own—the Crimson’s inability to defend the seven-foot Foote and prevent Cornell’s sharpshooters from getting open looks at the basket would haunt the road team until the final buzzer...
...night when the long-distance shots weren’t falling—the squad shot 33 percent from three—and Foote was bullying his way around inside, only Lin was able to successfully get into the lane and finish at the basket...
...effort capped off a late-half rally. Cornell hadn’t made any spectacular offensive plays, but the Crimson couldn’t seem to find the basket against its high pressure defense. For much of the first 10 minutes, Harvard seemed out of rhythm as it endured a scoreless streak of more than six minutes, allowing the Big Red to pick up an eight-point lead...
...Crimson co-captains started to turn things around. Junior Claire Wheeler hit a jumper to reduce the deficit to six. Harvard wouldn’t find the basket again for nearly two minutes, but it played lockdown defense and didn’t allow Cornell a tally in that period. Then junior co-captain Christine Matera scored her second of four three-pointers to bring the deficit down to two. By then, it seemed only a matter a time before Harvard took control, which it did following a three-pointer by freshman Victoria Lippert and the back-to-back three...