George Washington University Athletics
GW Hosts Richmond in Friday Matinee, Final Home Game
2/25/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 25, 2010
GW vs. Richmond Notes 
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WASHINGTON - The George Washington women's basketball team plays its final home game of the season at Charles E. Smith Center Friday at 12:00 pm against Richmond. The game is a make-up of the teams' previously scheduled Feb. 10 contest, which was postponed due to massive snowfall in the DC Metro area.
The first 100 faculty or staff members to attend Friday's Noon tip-off will receive a free hot dog and soda upon entry.
At 3-9 and currently 11th in league play, GW (6-19) has not yet clinched one of the 12 spots in next weekend's A-10 Championship. Any Colonials' victory over their last two games would secure a spot, as well as any two losses by Fordham, La Salle or Rhode Island in their regular-season finales on Saturday. GW has qualified for all 27 previous A-10 Championships since the tournament began in 1983 and has never been seeded lower than ninth for the event.
A furious late-game rally turned a 15-point deficit with less than five minutes left into a 62-60 hole with 25 seconds to play, but Saint Louis blocked a three-point attempt and converted free throws to defeat GW, 65-60, at Smith Center Tuesday. Tiana Myers led four double-digit scorers with 19 points for the Colonials. Myers is sixth in the A-10 with 14.8 points per game through 12 league contests.
The Colonials will look to avoid their second straight season-sweep against the Spiders after a 76-47 loss at the Robins Center Jan. 19. Playing with just seven players, GW gave up 24 fast-break points and 23 points off 18 turnovers in dropping its third consecutive game to Richmond.
Richmond (16-11, 5-7 A-10) enters Friday's tilt having lost its last three games and seven of its last nine after starting the season 14-4. UR fell to Temple, 77-67, at home Wednesday, a game in which the Spiders trailed by just three points, 65-62, with 2:50 remaining. A-10 leading scorer Brittani Shells scored a game-high 21 points against the Owls. The junior guard averages 16.7 points and also paces the league with 2.7 steals per game.
The Spiders lead the A-10 with 11.1 steals per game, but struggle to defend the shot, allowing opponents to shoot 42.7 percent from the field, including a league-worst 36.1 percent from beyond the three-point arc.
After winning its first three league games of the season, Richmond has gone 2-7 against A-10 foes and dropped into eighth in the conference standings a half-game ahead of Saint Louis with two regular-season contests remaining. UR plays its regular-season finale Sunday at SLU in a game that will air on CBS College Sports.
