OUTLOOK First round: Lost to Purdue, 70-66
Fresh off winning their 13th Ivy League title and posting their first 20-win season since 1989-90, the Big Green enter the Big Dance on a roll: In the 96-74 victory over Harvard in the regular-season finale March 7, senior guard Courtney Banghart scored a career-high 38 points on a school-record eight 3-pointers while breaking a 10-year-old Ivy record with 145 career 3-pointers. In the same game, freshman forward Katharine Hanks started off 8-for-8 from the field, and went on to hit 10 of 11 shots, tying a Dartmouth single-game record for field-goal percentage (.909). Still, in its fourth NCAA Tournament appearance, Dartmouth, a No. 14 seed a year ago which lost to Rutgers in the first round, also is seeking its first tourney win.
PROBABLE STARTERS |
F - Liz Martin (5-9 Sr., 11.3 ppg, 5.4 rpg)
F - Stephanie Kinnear (5-10, Jr., 5.0 ppg, 5.8 rpg)
C - Katherine Hanks (6-3, Fr., 15.4 ppg, 7.1 rpg)
G - Courtney Banghart (5-8, Sr., 17.3 ppg, 3.7 apg)
G - Sherryta Freeman (5-9, Jr., 6.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg)
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NOTABLE |
NCAA Tournament titles: None
Final Four appearances: None
Best finish: First Round
NCAA Tournament appearances: 4
NCAA Tournament Record: 0-3
Last NCAA appearance: 1999, lost to Rutgers, 84-70, in first round
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RANKINGS
Final Ratings Percentage Index ranking: No. 68.
NO. PLAYER POS HT CLASS
00 Heather Hanson C 6-3 FR
11 Courtney Banghart G 5-8 SR
13 Jackie Lippe F 6-0 JR
14 Samantha Berdinka G 5-10 JR
21 Katie Skelly F 6-1 FR
22 Sherryta Freeman G 5-9 JR
23 Jennifer Johnston F 6-1 FR
24 Jennifer Koch F 5-11 SO
30 Stephanie Kinnear F 5-10 JR
33 Keri Downs G 5-4 FR
34 Katharine Hanks F 6-1 FR
42 Liz Martin F-G 5-9 SR
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