2001–02 Women's Basketball
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Wisconsin Sports Information 1440 Monroe Street Madison, WI 53711 Phone: (608) 263-5502 W I S C O N S I N Fax: (608) 265-8051 UWBADGERS.COM Contact: Tam Flarup 2001–02 Women’s Basketball [email protected] Release Date: March 13, 2002 Next Event: at NCAA Tourney UPCOMING EVENTS SITE: Memorial Coliseum (15,000) Wisconsin (19-11) received a No. 8 seed and will meet No. 9-seeded Arizona State (24- DATE: Sat..-Mon. March 16 & 18, 2002 8) in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship Saturday at the BRACKET: Sat. March 16 subregional in Nashville, Tenn. No. 1 seed Vanderbilt (27-6) will meet No. 16 Oakland •UW vs. Arizona State, Time TBD (17-13) in the other game. The winners meet Monday at 7:36 p.m. CST in a game •Vanderbilt vs. Oakland, Time TBD nationally broadcast on ESPN2. Saturday’s UW game will be televised in Madison on Monday, March 18, 2002 local cable WB14. It is Wisconsin’s second straight NCAAappearance and sixth in Winners of Games 1 & 2, 7:36 p.m. CST school history. It is the fifth appearance under current coach Jane Albright. UW has ESPN2 never met Arizona State or Oakland, and owns a 0-1 record vs. Vanderbilt with the 82- BROADCASTS: Games on WIBA1310 AM 96 loss ironically taking place in the 1996 subregional also held at Nashville. Radio with Sports Director Brian Posick; UW is coming off its first appearance in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament Saturday’s UW Game broadcast in Madison on with wins over Northwestern, 60-54, and over No. 17 Minnesota, 74-64, in the quarter- cable channel WB14 with local announcers finals. That win moved UW past last year’s record of 18-10. Wisconsin is 6-3 vs. top-25 from CSS Broadcasting who is picking up the teams this season. UW lost to Penn State in the semifinals, 76-62. game; Monday’s game live on ESPN2 with The Badgers completed the Big Ten Conference regular season tied for fith place Chris Marlowe and Heather Cox in the Big Ten with an 8-8 record. The Badgers lost nine of their last 10 regular season games (six of them on the road) after opening the season with a school-best 16-1 WEB BROADCAST/LIVE STATS: record including a record 15-straight wins. Minnesota stopped the streaking Badgers, Game-day audio for all games and live stats for 92-85, on Jan. 20 in front of a Big Ten record crowd of 17,142 in a sellout at the Kohl UW home games and are available at Center in Madison. It was UW’s first conference loss after a tying a school-best 7-0 UWBADGERS.COM start. STOMSKI & MOORE DISTRICT ALL-AMERICANS Wisconsin women’s basketball seniors Jessie Stomski (0akdale, MN) and Tamara Moore QUICK FACTS (Minneapolis, MN) were named Kodak/WBCADistrict VI honorable mention all-Americans by a vote of the six-state Wom e n ’ s Basektball Coaches Association district VI coaches. Th e y ABOUT THE BADGERS now become part of the national 48-member ballot to determine the 10-person Kodak all- Overall Record: . .19-11 America team decided March 28 at the Wom e n ’ s Final Four in San Antonio, March 28-30. Big Ten Record: . .8-8 , T5th The pair are just the fourth and fifth Badgers ever recognized for the prestigious honor. Associated Press Media Poll . .NR Stomski, who earned Kodak all-district recognition last season, has led the Badgers the past USA Today Coaches Poll . .NR two years in scoring and rebounding averaging 18.3 points and 8.9 rebounds as a senior. BADGER STAFF Moore became UW’s all-time steals and assists leader this season and ranked second in the Head Coach . .Jane Albright Big Ten with 6.1 assists and 3.0 steals/game. Both also earned all-Big Ten first team honors Alma Mater . .Appalachian State ‘76 this year and Stomski earned AP all-America Honorable Mention by a vote of the AP vo t e r s . Record at Wisconsin . .154-85 (8 years) Big Ten Record . .77-51 (8 years) Overall Record . .342-195 (18 years) ON THE SIDELINES All-Time UW Record: Badger Coach Jane Albright earned her 150th victory at Wisconsin Jan. 13, and is having 388-381 (.504) 27 years one of her finest years in her eighth season as the winningest women’s basketball coach in Al l - T ime Big Ten Record: Wisconsin history with a 154-85 (.644 percent) record. She has led UW to a school record 152-192 (.442) 20 years eight consecutive winning seasons, six post-season tournament bids and four 20-win sea- Al l - T ime Home Records: sons. Wisconsin has attended five NCAAtournaments and was the 2000 WNIT Champion 220-126 (.636) 27 years and 1999 WNIT runnerup champion. Kohl Center (since Jan. 98) .52-14 (.787) Al b r i g h t ’ s Home Record: WISCONSIN’S PROBABLE LINEUP 89-20 (.816 since 1994-95) UW Probable Starters (2001–02 pts/rebs) 41–Jessie Stomski 6-3 Sr. F Oakdale, MN 18.3 8.9 NOTABLE QUOTES 30–Tamara Moore 5-11 Sr. G/F Minneapolis, MN 16.7 5.1 6.1a/3.0 st “We ’ ve been through a lot this season 32–Kyle Black 5-11 Sr. G Indianapolis, IN 12.1 2.2 .379 % 3-pt as far as trials and tribulations any- 44–Emily Ashbaugh 6-5 So. C Woodinville, WA 6.8 4.9 1.3 blk way. We’ ve lost pretty much ever y 43–Kristi Seeger 6-0 F Jr. Stoughton, WI 3.8 3.9 Off The Bench (2001–02 pts/rebs) way you can lose, and won a lot of 25–Ebba Gebisa 6-3 Fr. F West Lafayette, IN 4.9 3.4 different ways you can win. I don’t 11–Stephanie Rich 5-11 Fr. G Crawfordsville, IA 3.2 2.4 see a game coming up that we haven ’ t 22–Leah Hefte 5-11 Jr. G McFarland, WI 3.2 1.0 .333 % 3pt seen before in a certain aspect." 1–Candas Smith 5-6 Jr. G Madison, WI 1.7 1.1 1.7 asst 52–Sarah Jirovec 6-4 Sr. C Stevens Point, WI 1.1 0.6 Sophomore Emily As h b a u g h 42–Leslie Jauch 6-3 Fr. C Baraboo, WI 0.9 0.6 Un i versity of Wis c o n s i n 40–Shawna Nicols 5-10 Fr. G Milwaukee, WI 0.6 0.5 BADGERS IN THE POLLS UW IN THE POLLS • The Badgers dropped out of the AP poll Jan. 28 after being ranked for 13 weeks including an all- time high of fifth place held for two weeks, Jan. 7-21. Fifth place was the highest ranking in any 2001 is the ninth year overall, and eighth - national poll in school history. UW, which was not ranked in either of the two national polls to begin straight year, UW had been ranked among the the season, moved from 12th to 5th Jan. 7. The previous highest APranking was 8th for one week nation’s top 25. Wisconsin’s highest poll rank - in 1997, and for one week in 1996. ing is fifth in the AP poll, Jan. 7, 2002, and • Wisconsin achieved its highest ranking ever in the ESPN/USA Today poll at seventh on Jan. 14, seventh in the ESPN/USA Today poll on Jan. and dropped to 19th Feb. 11. UW entered the coaches poll at 22nd on Dec. 3. The previous high in the coaches poll was eighth in 1997. This week UW is 25th.Wis c o n s i n ’ s Jessie Stomski and 14, 2002. Tamara Moore earned their second consecutive first team all-Big Ten honors this season. The senior duo was one of only two Big Ten schools to have two athletes named first team. Date AP Record USA Nov. 5 NR 0-0 NR Nov. 12 NR 0-0 NR 2001–02 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RESULTS Nov. 20 23rd 1-0 NR Day Date Opponent Results Rec. High Score Nov. 26 20th 2-1 NR NOVEMBER SUN. 18 WASHINGTON W 87-67 1-0 Stomski-22 Dec. 3 19th 5-1 22nd Sat-Sun. 24-25 at Virgin Islands Paradise Jam Tourney Dec. 10 15th 7-1 19th Sat. 24 vs. Texas L 70-75 1-1 Moore-17 Dec. 17 15th 9-1 19th Sun. 25 vs. Florida W 61-49 2-1 Stomski-17 Dec. 24 14th 9-1 14th TUES. 27 CLEVELAND STATE W 97-55 3-1 Stomski-27 Dec. 31 12th 11-1 13th DECEMBER Jan. 7 5th 13-1 9th Fri. N30 at AZ Wisconsin vs. Pittsburgh W 92-75 4-1 Moore-21 Jan. 14 5th 15-1 7th Sun. 2 at AZ UW vs. Holy Cross W 80-71 5-1 Black-26 Jan. 21 9th 16-2 8th Wed. 5 at Marquette W 56-55 6-1 Black 19 Jan. 28 15th 16-4 13th SAT. 8 NORTH CAROLINA STATE W 65-48 7-1 Moore-24 Feb. 4 21st 16-6 16th TUES. 11 UW-MILWAUKEE (WPT, WB14)W 80-61 8-1 Stomski-27 Feb.11 25th 16-7 19th THUR. 13 DRAKE (WPT) W 74-61 9-1 Stomski-20 Feb. 18 NR 17-8 25th FRI. 28 PURDUE (FOX SC) W 71-59 10-1 Black-19 Feb.