Word: man-to-man
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Switching out of a zone and into a man-to-man defense, Harvard pressed the SMU offense into numerous turnovers. The SMU outside shooting, so hot in the first half, fell to pieces in the second half as the blue and gold shooters spent most of their time watching their "airballs" fall into the arms of Harvard rebounders...
Coach Carole Kleinfelder put her charges in a man-to-man defense at the beginning of the game but the hustle that keys that kind of defense just was not there. Rather than admit failure and set up in a zone, Kleinfelder pulled the starters and banked on her bench to provide the spark...
Coming out in the second half, something happened. The Crimson shook the cobwebs loose, got its man-to-man defense together for the second half and put the Wheaton squad in its place...
Once assured that the squad had solved the man-to-man defense, Kleinfelder switched to a 1-3-1 trapping zone. Strong center play by Sue Hewitt and surging newcomer Leslie Greis kept Wheaton on the run and Radcliffe ahead...
...play symbolized a game of frustration for the Crimson--throughout the 40 minutes, Tom Sanders' crew had trouble penetrating Princeton's tough man-to-man defense and stopping the swirling Tiger offense. Only the hot shooting of Bob Hooft and Jonas Honick brought Harvard back into the game in the second half...