March 08, 2009

Women's basketball returns to Sweet 16

We were at LeFrak last night for the Amherst women’s absolute demolition of Emmanuel to advance from the second round of the NCAA tournament to the “Sweet 16.” Emmanuel played a tough game, and it might have looked close as long as nobody looked at the scoreboard: Amherst held Emmanuel to only 37 points while racking up 76 of their own.

The College will now play host to another two rounds next weekend, with the schedule to be announced tomorrow. The Lady Jeffs will face another team in purple, NYU, and the winner of that game will advance to play the winner of the Brandeis/Muhlenburg game.

Muhlenberg’s presence is a good news/bad news situation for the Amherst squad which went 27-2 this season. The Mules advanced by beating Bowdoin by a single point in Brunswick, thus removing from the tournament the only team which has defeated Amherst so far this year (twice, by a total of five points), but also denying the team a third shot at toppling the NESCAC champions.

Parker Morse '96 | March 8, 2009 08:55 PM | Athletics

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