George Washington University
Arizona
No. 25 Women's Basketball Rallies to Beat Arizona
11/17/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Nov. 17, 2006
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COLLEGE PARK, MD - George Washington sophomore Jessica Adair, playing in her first game of the season, headlined three players in double-digits with a career-high 22 points to lead the Colonials' women's basketball team to a 69-65 come-from-behind victory over Arizona in the BTI Classic at the Comcast Center on Friday.
Junior Sarah-Jo Lawrence contributed 17 points and senior Kenan Cole recorded her first career double-double with 16 points and a career-high 11 rebounds as 25th-ranked GW (3-0) overcame a six-point deficit with less than three minutes to play to keep its undefeated record intact.
The lead changed hands 10 times in the see-saw battle, including nine times in the second half. The Wildcats led 60-54 with 2:36 remaining when the Colonials, behind their three leading scorers, began their furious rally.
Adair dropped in one of her six field goals to slice Arizona's lead to two points with 2:36 to play, then Cole converted a three-point play 38 seconds later to bring GW to within one, 60-59. UA reestablished a three-point cushion, but Lawrence scored four straight points, including the go-ahead baseline jumper with 53 seconds left, to lift GW to a 63-62 advantage. The Colonials then iced the game by hitting 6-of-8 free throws in the waning seconds.
GW scored the game's first six points, but Arizona (1-1) responded with a 15-0 run and led by as many as nine points in the first half. However, the Colonials fought back, trimming the deficit to a single point, 25-24, at halftime.
GW will face TCU for the first time in program history on the second day of the three-day BTI Classic tomorrow at 2:00 pm.
NOTES: GW is off to its best start since winning its first six games of the 1994-95 season ... Junior Kimberly Beck moved into 10th place on GW's career assists list, passing Kristeena Alexander, and now has 358 career helpers ... Beck also tentatively moved into third place on GW's career free-throw percentage list with a career 81.3 percent clip (122-of-150) ... Sophomores Jessica Adair and Jamila Bates made their first career starts ... Adair tied a career-high with three blocked shots and set new career marks in free throws made (eight) and free throw attempts (10) ... GW out-rebounded Arizona, 22-11, in the second half.
