University of North Texas Athletics
Mean Green Rally To Defeat Jaguars 59-56
2/24/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
The Mean Green (13-13, 8-6), who trailed by as many as 13 points, have secured no worse than the second seed in the Sun Belt Conference West Division.
“This was a huge game for us especially for us to win one like this on the road,” said
Trailing by six points at 56-50 with
South Alabama had a chance to take the lead with eight seconds left but Donyel Wheeler missed a runner in the lane and Talicia Sanders came down with the rebound for North Texas. Sanders made both free throws with 2.7 seconds left, leaving South Alabama one final chance trailing 59-56.
The Jaguars had fired the ball to mid-court where Mian Williams nearly came away with a steal, but fell out of bounds with just eight-tenths of a second left.
Genevieve Delk’s 3-pointer at the buzzer rimmed out and the Mean Green escaped with its second double-digit come from behind victory over
“Even when we were down the girls just kept fighting and we were able to climb our way back into the game. We really needed a game like this and it feels really good to win this one” said Slinker.
Bobo led the way for
