Dartmouth women\u2019s basketball fell to the Columbia Lions this past Saturday, losing 81-42 in a game that brought their record in the Ivy League Conference to 1-10.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the first quarter, the Big Green struggled to break through Columbia\u2019s defense and hit their shots. Columbia came out aggressively with a full-court press, which they continued until the end of the game despite their lead. Head coach Linda Cimino said Dartmouth could not \u201cconvert on [their] layups,\u201d a problem which continued for the rest of the first half. The Big Green ended this first part of the game down 14-40.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t start the game off well offensively,\u201d Cimino said.<\/p>\n
With the Lions maintaining a double-digit lead into the third quarter, the Big Green began to put up more of a fight. Dartmouth began to assert itself on the court, scoring more layups and battling against Columbia\u2019s press. Zeynep Ozel \u201928 sank the team\u2019s only three-pointer of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really proud of our effort in the third quarter,\u201d Cimino said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dartmouth kept fighting into the fourth quarter, driving to the net and putting some points on the board despite Columbia entering the quarter up 56-29. Cimino described how, considering the large point gap, it could have been easy for the Big Green to \u201cpack it in,\u201d but the team fought until that very last buzzer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI am really proud of the fact that our players didn\u2019t give up,\u201d Cimino said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tahira Muhammad \u201928, who was on the starting lineup for the first time in her Dartmouth career, hit a last-second shot right at the buzzer. Both Ozel and Cimino praised Muhammad\u2019s effort on the court and positive energy on the team this season, and how ready she was for this important moment in her basketball career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is one of our hype-women on the team,\u201d Ozel said. \u201cWhenever she gets on the court, she delivers whatever we ask from her, and for me, it\u2019s great to see my teammates come on the court and \u2026 help us achieve what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notably, Cimino highlighted how the team achieved \u201csmall goals\u2026within [their] program\u201d on Saturday that did not appear on the scoreboard. For example, the Big Green only fouled the Lions nine times. Dartmouth found the charity stripe 19 times compared to Columbia\u2019s six.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt we did a good job staying disciplined and not fouling,\u201d Cimino said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Big Green prepared this week for the Lions\u2019 intense, full-court press. Although they struggled initially, Muhammad highlighted how the team was able to \u201cget it over half court\u201d and create some shooting opportunities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe [our shots] didn\u2019t fall, but we were able to break that press and get shots that we wanted,\u201d Muhammad said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Looking forward, the Big Green has just three games left in the season, including a home game against Princeton University this Friday and another against University of Pennsylvania on Saturday. The Saturday game is also Senior Day, which will celebrate the seniors on the team as their final season winds down. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to get that win at home, and for the next three games we want to end on a good note,\u201d Ozel said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dartmouth women\u2019s basketball fell to the Columbia Lions this past Saturday, losing 81-42 in a game that brought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-498277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}