Purdue Fort Wayne
6-4
Hampton
6-4
Zuppe Gets Milestone as Mastodons Fall in Double Overtime
12/19/2010 6:01:26 PM | Women's Basketball
BOX SCORE | POSTGAME NOTES (.pdf)
Hampton, VA – IPFW senior Jordan Zuppe scored 17 points, including the 1,000th of her career, as the Mastodons dropped a hotly contest match-up with the Lady Pirates of Hampton University in double overtime on Sunday afternoon by a 78-77 final score.
Stephanie Rosado hit a jumper with 12 seconds left, putting IPFW ahead by two at 77-76, before Hampton's Melanie Warner missed a contested lay-up with under a second left, and Lady Pirate forward Quanneisha Perry picked up the rebound and released the ball as the buzzer went off, giving the Lady Pirates the narrow victory.
IPFW fell to 6-4 on the year, the program's best start to a season in its 10 seasons as a NCAA Division I member.
Rosado scored a team-high 22 points on 10-of-17 shooting from the field, while making both of her three-point attempts, while Zuppe scored 17, Kayla Drake 16, and Anne Boese 14.
Zuppe pulled down a career-high-tying eight rebounds, while Rosado and Drake each snared seven, Drake's marking a new career-high. Drake also dished out five assists to lead the team, as Rosado had a trio of steals.
Hampton, now 6-4 on the year and who returned four starters from its NCAA Tournament team a season ago, opened up the game strong, and jumped ahead to a nine-point, 25-16 lead near the halfway point of the first half. IPFW answered back with a 16-2 run to turn the nine-point deficit into an eight-point lead at 35-27, with the Mastodons taking a seven-point, 37-30 lead into the locker room at halftime.
IPFW hit back-to-back three-point baskets, the first from Boese and the second from Zuppe, pushed IPFW's lead to double-digits at 43-32. The lead grew to as many as 12 after a Rosado lay-in with 12:19 on the clock before the Lady Pirates melted the deficit to just a pair with a 10-0 run with five and a half minutes on the clock.
The teams traded baskets from that point on, with Zuppe hitting a clutch top of the key three-point basket with 45.5 seconds left. IPFW forced a five-second call with 2.4 seconds left under its own basket, and had an open look at the basket to end the game in regulation, but the shot rimmed out, sending the contest into an extra period.
Sydney Weinert put IPFW on the board with a lay-in 19 seconds into overtime. Hampton answered back with four straight points, before Rosado hit a jumper to re-tie the game at 61. A Lady Pirate basket was answered each time by IPFW, with the Mastodons taking a one-point lead when Drake answered a Hampton basket with a three-pointer, and a pair of Zuppe free throws put IPFW ahead by three with 11 seconds left.
Hampton's Jericka Jenkins, who scored a game-high 30 points, was purposefully fouled with 4.4 seconds left, and made 1-of-2 free throws to cut the deficit to two. A missed free throw on the front end of a 1-and-1 gave the Lady Pirates a chance, and with 1.4 seconds left Choicetta McMillian was fouled while shooting a three-point basket, and made 2-of-3 charity stripe attempts to send the game into a second overtime period.
The Mastodons found themselves down by four with 2:21 left in the second extra stanza, before a Rosado three-pointer, followed by a Boese mid-lane jumper put IPFW ahead once again at 75-74. Jenkins made a lay-up with 31 seconds left, setting the table for the end-of-game action.
IPFW made a season-high 13 three-point baskets, making 13-of-32 shots from long range, and hit 28 of its 62 shots from the field for a 43.1 field goal percentage. Hampton out-rebounded IPFW by one, 38-37, and made 47.8 percent of its shots.
Jenkins scored 30 points on 12-of-21 shootings, while Perry scored 20, and Warner had a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
The Mastodons stay in Virginia, traveling 150 miles west to Farmville, Virginia, to take on the Longwood Lancers with a 4:00 tip-off on Tuesday, December 21.
~Dons~
