MINNESOTA GOPHER WOMEN ARE HOSTING THE PURDUE BOILERMAKERS

The University of Minnesota Women’s basketball is hosting the Purdue Boilermakers. Both of these teams started out playing very aggressively. They were really going after each other on both ends of the court.

Purdue passed the ball around on the offensive end and they really let the clock wind down before they looked to shoot.

Both teams were matching baskets in the middle of the first half. Neither team was able to go on a run in the first half of the first half of the game.

The Gophers used a tough full court press to try to get Purdue out of their game plan. Purdue was able to keep fighting in the first half. Neither team was going to give up their chance in this one here.

Purdue looked to push the ball up the court after they got the rebound they really tried to get the ball out of the basket and got into their offensive set off of the break. Minnesota was able to figure out what Prude was going to run and they did a good job of stopping them from making shots in the first half. If a player was open for Purdue she would usually shoot it. FahKara Malone was like Purdue’s leader on the court. She would shout out plays and use hand singles to single where she wanted her players to go on the court.

At half time the score was Minnesota 24 and Purdue 27.

In the first half Minnesota shot 47.8% from the field and Purdue shot 41.4 % from the field. Purdue was led in scoring by Jodi Howell with 8 points. The Gophers were lead in scoring in the first half by Emily Fox and Brittney McCoy with 7 points each.

There were a lot of fouls called on both sides of the ball early in the second half that had both teams frustrated at times. They kept playing hard and through the calls.

Purdue was able to kind of get a lead in the early goings of the second half. They had a 35-30 lead with 13:45 left to go in the second half.

Lakisha Freeman had a few nice moves in the second half to help propel the Boilermakers. She had a couple of nice spin moves.

It was a good battle the whole game both teams fought hard but the Gophers were not able to overcome the pesky Purdue Boilermakers. Both teams fought extremely hard the whole game.

The final of the game was Purdue 55 and Minnesota 40.

The leading scorers for Purdue were Lakisha Freeman and Fahkara Malone who each had 12 points. Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton had 11 points for the Boliermakers.

In a hard fought effort the Gophers were lead in scoring by Ashley Ellis-Milan and Brittney McCoy each had 10 points and Emily Fox had 9 points.

Purdue shot 42.6% from the field and the Gophers shot 32.7% from the field.