UNC Basketball Teams Struggle in Openers Smith’S 13 Points Against Colorado University Was a Team Men’S Basketball High
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TheMirror | November 14, 2016 | ! UNC Basketball teams struggle in openers Smith’s 13 points against Colorado University was a team Men’s Basketball high. She also led the team in scoring in both exhibition games Staf Report he University of Northern Colorado Men’s and Women’s bas- earlier this month. ketball teams kicked of the 2016 season this week. he Women’s “Sav’s a great leader on the floor,” lone senior Katie Longwell Northern Colorado opened up the season on the road at Butler team started at home against the University of Colorado, falling said. “If she can score points, if she can give assists, any way University on Saturday night. he Bears hung with the Bulldogs 83-62, while the men’s team fell to Butler University 89-52. that she’s distributing the ball I think is a plus sign for us.” throughout the irst half, but were outscored 48-21 in the second Junior guard Kianna Williams also said she believes Smith half en route to an 89-52 loss. Butler, which earned the No. 9 seed will be an asset this season by setting the pace and leading the in the 2015 NCAA Tournament, is just one of three 2015 tourna- Women’s Basketball younger team members on the court. She said she thinks the ment teams UNC will see in the month of November. By Brittany Riley team can learn from Friday’s game. he Bears hung toe-to-toe with the Bulldogs in the irst half, as “We’re definitely going to improve upon our offense,” Wil- the Butler lead never eclipsed more than 13 points. Northern Colorado women’s basketball fell in their season liamssaid, who shot 3-4 against the Buffs. “We have good pace; he Bears leaned heavily on sophomore guard, Jordan Davis opener against the Colorado Buffaloes on Friday night in we just need to tighten up a few things because we are inexpe- for production in the irst act and he didn’t disappoint, scoring 20 Greeley 83-62. rienced still.” of his game-high 25 points. Davis was the only player for North- The Bears went down early after Colorado started things Northern Colorado finished their 2015-2016 season with a ern Colorado to inish in double igures on the night. off with a three-pointer in the first 15 seconds. The Buffs record of 13-16 and lost in the first round of the Big Sky tour- he largest lead of the half came during a UNC dry spell. From finished the first quarter shooting 60 percent, on top of the nament to Idaho State. The team hopes to improve that record 6:22 to 3:07, the Bears had trouble inding the hoop. Meanwhile, Bears’ 30-14. this season. Butler used a 10-0 run to go up 40-27. UNC started a comeback in the second quarter to cut the “I definitely think we’ll be better,” Longwell said. “We’ve got Northern Colorado got the Bulldog lead back down to 10 be- Buffs’ lead to just 10 points, but Colorado didn’t take that for more talent, more speed, we’re running more of an up-tempo fore haltime, taking a 41-31 deicit into the locker room.he sec- long. The Bears shot just 35 percent through the first half scor- style and hopefully those will translate to a lot more wins.” ond half was a diferent tale all together. ing only 28 points to Colorado’s 49. Attendance Friday night reached 1,071 fans. The team was Shots began to fall for the perennial NCAA Tournament team. Redshirt sophomore point guard Savannah Smith scored grateful for the turnout, and hopeful that it continues through- Just like that, the Bulldogs were up by 20 (58-38) only six minutes nine of her 13 points in the third quarter to help UNC cut their out the season. into the inal 20 minutes of action. deficit to just 12 points going into the final quarter of play. Northern Colorado women’s basketball continues their sea- he men’s hoops team will return to Greeley for its regular sea- The court was Colorado’s in the fourth quarter and they son on Monday at 7 p.m. against the Denver Pioneers at the son home opener next week when they face Colorado Christian sealed the 83-62 win over Northern Colorado. Bank of Colorado Arena in Greeley. on Nov. 16. Tipof is slated for 7:00 p.m..