TicketsKing Scores 2,000th Career Point
Cincinnati Defeats Southern Miss 77-64
Contact: Geoff Wiswell
2/13/2004
HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- University of Cincinnati women?s basketball senior Valerie King scored 22 points on Friday, leading the Bearcats to a 77-64 victory over conference foe Southern Miss. King also posted her 2,000th career point during the game to become only the second women?s basketball player in UC history to achieve the milestone.
Cincinnati dominated the first half, jumping out to a 24-4 lead, allowing Southern Miss to score only two baskets in the first 12 minutes of the game. Four Bearcats contributed during the run, with seven points and an assist coming from King. Cincinnati went on a second run 32 seconds later, scoring 11 points to the Eagles? four. By the end of the half, all but two of the nine Cincinnati players that participated had at least two points.
Southern Miss scored only five baskets in the first half, three of which come from Deondra Carter. Carter also made six free throws for 13 of the Eagles 17 first half points.
The second half started the same as the first, with UC posting a 5-2 run in the first four minutes. Lana Lewis scored the Eagles? second basket of the half at the 16:04 remaining, and Denise Wilson made a foul shot, making the score 51-24. Cincinnati answered with a 7-3 run ending with a jumper by Toni Slaughter at 12:53, a basket that would prove to be the final Cincinnati bucket of the game.
The Bearcats went to the charity line 30 times in the second half, scoring 19 of its 22 free throw points in the last 12 minutes. The Eagles scored 10 baskets in the same amount of time, including one from outside the arc. Southern Miss also stepped to the charity line numerous times in the second half, going 19-28, and posting 17 of those points in the last 12 minutes. Both teams were in foul trouble by the end of the game, with six total players fouling out.
Cincinnati is back in action on Sunday when the Bearcats take on the Green Wave of Tulane at 2 p.m. CT in New Orleans. Cincinnati returns home on Friday, Feb. 20 to host East Carolina at 7 p.m.