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UAB Cannot Complete Comeback, Falls to Marshall
1/30/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Brittany Winborne's third-straight double-double was not enough to push the UAB women's basketball team past Marshall, as it fell 64-61, in a tightly contested matchups at Bartow Arena Saturday.
Winborne earned her 11th career double-double as she shot 7-of-11 from the floor and 10-of-12 from the charity stripe as she paced the Blazers with a career-high 24 points. Kara Rawls and Deanna Kuzmanic netted eight points a piece for the Blazers.
"Brittany Winborne was just outstanding and I am really proud of her," head coach Randy Norton said of Winborne. "If you don't know her history, she's kind of come out of nowhere. It's exciting for her to have a senior year like this, because I think she is an all-conference player. She's in the top of the conference in rebounding, both defensive and offensive, and she's scoring for us. So, we're so excited for her.
UAB (10-10, 3-6) outscored Marshall (14-6, 4-5), 37-32 in the second half, but they could not erase the eight-point halftime deficit.
After trailing 32-24 at the midway point, the Blazers came out in the third quarter on fire as it outscored the Herd, 20-13. UAB closed the gap to one as it trail 39-38 with 3:54 to go in the third. Back-to-back triples by Marshall gave it breathing room as it led UAB, 45-38,just two possession later.
Dy'mann Webb, Kara Rawls and T'erra Lewis refused to give up as the trio closed out the third quarter scoring six straight points to cut the lead back to one at 45-44.
To open the fourth, the Herd scored a jumper, but at the 9:05 mark, Winborne knotted the game up at 47-all on a free throw. UAB and Marshall were neck-in-neck as the clock winded down. Winborne and the Herd's leading scorer Leah Scott, went back and forth, but Scott's six straight points at the charity stripe kept the Blazers at bay.
With 58.1 seconds to play, a layup by Winborne gave UAB its first lead since the nine- minute mark in the first half, as she made the Herd pay for a turnover with a layup.
Marshall responded on the other end as Talequia Hamilton sealed the Herd's victory with a layup of her own. The Herd's Scott put the game just out of reach for the Blazers as she hit a pair of free throws.
With time winding down, Chelsee Black was able to get off a 3-pointer, but it bounced off the backside of the rim.
UAB dominated the paint as it outscored Marshall, nearly doubling the Herd's close-range efforts, 30-16.
"The last two games we haven't shot it well and as we told them those are nights or days that you have to recognize that," Norton added.
The Blazers struggled from long range as they shot a combined 4-of-20 from beyond the arc, while the Herd went 8-of-19 (42.1 percent) from deep. On the night, UAB shot 38.5 percent (20-of-52), while Marshall made 20-of-51 shot attempts (39.2 percent).
The Blazers hit the road for a Florida swing as it first travel to Miami to play FIU, before heading to Florida Atlantic on Saturday.
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