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Kansas State is loaded with talent. Big 12 Player of the Year Nicole Ohlde only missed one shot (8-for-9 from the field). Kendra Wecker and Laurie Koehn, both All-Big 12 First-Teamers, combined for 38 points and six three-pointers. The Wildcats shot 48.2 percent from the field, while the Crimson connected on 38.7 percent of its shots. Combine that discrepancy with 10,732 screaming fans seemingly all wearing Kansas State purple, and it’s not surprising Harvard could not advance past the first round of the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season...
Bell, Harvard’s starting shooting guard, has a history of ankle problems and injured her left ankle in practice the day before the game. She played in spite of the injury, but suffered another sprain—this one to her right ankle—while guarding Wecker in the second half. Though she had to be helped off the floor, Bell still tallied 27 minutes of playing time while making major contributions on defense...
...Wecker led the Wildcats with 21 points, followed closely by Ohlde with 20. Wecker, who is also the Big 12 javelin champion and an Olympic hopeful in the event, further demonstrated her athleticism with nine rebounds and three steals...
Both the Wildcats and the Crimson return not only their entire starting lineups next year, but—with the exception of Ides—their entire rosters. However, Kansas State’s starters can already appreciate the benefits of experience, as Kansas natives Ohlde, Wecker and Koehn have been playing together since their AAU years...
...thinking they run a 3-2 and I think they are very talented from the corners,” Delaney-Smith said. “It also leaves more stuff on the weak side block to either rebound or defend. It has a weakness and Ohlde and Wecker scared me on the weak side block and a lot of the shooters scared me in the corners. So we did not use that in the first half...