TicketsFeb. 8, 2006
- Allie Quigley scored 18 points and All-American Khara Smith added 17 to lead No. 17/15 DePaul to a 68-53 win against the University of Cincinnati in women's basketball action on Wednesday night at the DePaul Athletic Center.
The Bearcats (14-7, 4-6 BIG EAST), dropped their second straight conference game while the Blue Demons (19-5, 6-5 BIG EAST) snapped a three-game losing streak.
Treasure Humphries led the UC attack with 16 points, while Michelle Jones posted her first career double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds.
The sloppy game saw 33 total fouls called and each team commit 16 turnovers. The Bearcats shot only .321 (18-56) for the game and were outrebounded for just the sixth time this season, 40-36, despite grabbing 21 offensive boards.
After a fast-paced start by both teams, DePaul used a 17-4 run over a nine minute span, capped by an Allie Quigley jumper that gave the Blue Demons a 26-16 lead at the 6:05 mark in the first half. Emy Ogide got the Bearcats within eight with her first basket, but back-to-back threes by Erin Cattell and Holly Medley pushed the DPU lead to 14 with 2:55 left.
Ogide scored all six in a quick 6-2 Bearcat run to close the half and send UC to the locker room trailing, 34-24.
UC shot just .323 (10-31) in the half and turned the ball over eight times, while DePaul shot .412 (14-34) from the floor and committed just three turnovers.
Emy Ogide matched a season best with eight points in the first half, scoring all eight in the final 4:48 of the stanza. Humpries scored eight points in the half while Jones pulled down seven rebounds, six on the offensive end.
Cattell led the Blue Demons with eight points and six rebounds at intermission, while Quigley added six points and four assists.
The Bearcats clawed their way back in the early stages of the second half, cutting the lead to seven on three different occasions. But DePaul answered every UC charge. Smith scored 13 points and had nine rebounds in the second half, taking over down the stretch. She finished 8-of-10 from the field and also recorded two blocked shots.
cut the DePaul lead to nine with six minutes remaining on a pair of Jones free throws, but a subsequent 7-0 run fueled by two Smith layups and a three from Quigley sealed UC's fate.
UC is next in action on Saturday afternoon when it travels to Villanova. The Bearcats and Wildcats will tip off at 1 p.m.