beat the Panthers, 69-63<\/a>.<\/p>\nElizabeth Bennett \u201927, a 5-foot-11 center from Staten Island, New York, was Scranton\u2019s leading scorer with 15 points and five rebounds.<\/p>\n
Bennett reflected below, as told to University communications, on the rare experience of playing against a Division I ACC opponent \u2014 and the even more remarkable feat of beating that team.<\/p>\n
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One of the hallmarks of our team is that we are steady.<\/p>\n
If we are on a run, if the other team is on a run \u2014 and it\u2019s inevitable, basketball is a sport of runs \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter. We just want to stay as steady as possible, no matter the circumstances.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the circumstances were evident on the scoreboard. We were up 10 at halftime. We were down six after three quarters. And even though we were playing against a great opponent in an amazing arena, we just had to remind ourselves to stay steady.<\/p>\n
The opponent, of course, was Pitt. We were back on campus this fall for two or three weeks when we got the news that we\u2019d be playing Pitt. We were all really excited but a little nervous, too.<\/p>\n
And the arena was the Petersen Events Center. Last year, we had a winter tournament at Daytona Beach, Florida, and that was the biggest arena I\u2019d ever played in. It was more of a convention center, though, so getting to play at Pitt was going to be special.<\/p>\n
A couple days before the game, we went over film and stats. We knew we\u2019d be at a size disadvantage. However, even going back to travel basketball, you play against bigger girls all the time and just have to remind yourself that this is something you\u2019ve done before.<\/p>\n
When we got on the bus Saturday morning at 7 a.m., I definitely had some nerves bouncing around. We knew it would be a great opportunity to play against good competition, no matter if we won or lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Scranton Lady Royals on Sunday recorded one of the greatest wins in the rich history…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5956,23125,178,180,179,274,10095],"class_list":["post-37686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-basketball","tag-lady-royals","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}