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Guard Tyler Scaife drives down the RAC floor, where she finished with 22 points.
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Fast start propels RU blowout
(02/12/14 12:00am)
Back on Jan. 4, the Rutgers women’s basketball team needed more than 20 minutes of game time to pull away from Houston at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. Last night in Texas, it took the Scarlet Knights hardly five minutes.Rutgers quickly imposed its will on the AAC’s bottom feeder, turning an early 18-3 run into a 19-point halftime lead and eventual 74-42 rout.
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(02/12/14 12:00am)
Sophomore wing Kahleah Copper scored 10 points in the first seven minutes of Rutgers’ 74-42 win at Houston last night. She also shot a perfect 8-for-8 on foul shots as RU missed only one as a team.
Knights approach NCAA status
(02/11/14 12:00am)
As the wins continue to pile up, the Rutgers women’s basketball team continues to solidify its NCAA Tournament resume. Though they lack many marquee victories, the Scarlet Knights (18-5, 9-3) have fended off the majority of unranked opponents and avoided bad losses. Rutgers extended its winning streak to three games Saturday at Southern Methodist after rallying from 9 points down in the final two minutes.
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(02/11/14 12:00am)
Freshman guard Tyler Scaife earned AAC Rookie of the Week on Monday for the fourth time in the past five weeks.
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(02/11/14 12:00am)
Junior wing Betnijah Laney’s versatility has been instrumental in RU establishing a more balanced attack on offense this season. The Knights have scored at least 60 points in 21 games entering tonight’s contest at Houston.
RU survives upset scare with tip-in
(02/10/14 12:00am)
With only 110 seconds to go Saturday at Southern Methodist, the Rutgers women’s basketball team stared at its largest deficit of the afternoon.The Mustangs led, 59-50. The upset was all but complete. SMU just needed to make its free throws.
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(02/10/14 12:00am)
Sophomore forward Rachel Hollivay provided the game-winning tip-in shot as time expired for RU on Saturday at Southern Methodist.
Copper comes off bench in victory
(02/05/14 12:00am)
For the first time this season, sophomore guard Kahleah Copper was on the bench for tipoff. She was favoring her ankle in the Rutgers women’s basketball team’s 66-48 victory over Memphis last Saturday, a game in which she only played 16 minutes. Copper, who leads the team in scoring, averaged just less than 30 minutes per game in 21 starts entering last night’s matchup.
Knights thwart ’Cats comeback
(02/05/14 12:00am)
Another 2-3 zone defense arrived at the Louis Brown Athletic Center last night, and the Rutgers women’s basketball team again struggled to play consistently in the half court. Cincinnati employed the blueprint that has stymied the Scarlet Knights’ up-tempo offense for much of conference play. It produced immediate results.
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(02/05/14 12:00am)
Freshman point guard Tyler Scaife looks for an open teammate as she finished with a game-high 18 points on 8-for-13 shooting. Scaife made a 3-pointer with five minutes left in the game to give Rutgers a 52-44 lead.
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Sophomore guard Kahleah Copper scored 12 of her 14 points in the second half. She played 30 minutes despite an ankle injury.
Knights rout Tigers in rematch at RAC
(02/03/14 12:00am)
Betnijah Laney often stresses in postgame interviews how quickly the Rutgers women’s basketball team moves on from one game and looks forward to the next. Yet the junior wing never forgot how the Scarlet Knights felt Jan. 14 when Memphis erased Rutgers’ 11-point second-half lead en route to a 74-73 overtime upset win in Tennessee.
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(02/03/14 12:00am)
Junior wing Betnijah Laney collected 11 points and 10 rebounds in Rutgers’ blowout win Saturday at the Rutgers Athletic Center.
Rutgers gets shot to redeem loss to Tigers
(01/31/14 12:00am)
As demoralized as the Rutgers women’s basketball team felt after its 80-71 loss Tuesday night to No. 5 Louisville, to some degree the late collapse was expected. The Scarlet Knights are still a young team just beginning to reestablish national prominence, while the Cardinals are a veteran program building on a 2013 national title game appearance.
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Guard Briyona Canty has recently come alive off of Rutgers’ bench.
Stringer laments RU’s focus against Louisville
(01/30/14 12:00am)
All things considered, it is plausible for fans of the Rutgers women’s basketball team to be pleased with the direction the program is headed.The Scarlet Knights came into the season missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2002. They also lost four of last year’s top-six scorers and several seniors.
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(01/30/14 12:00am)
Head coach C. Vivian Stringer insisted after Rutgers’ 81-70 loss Tuesday night to No. 5 Louisville that the majority of its errors down the stretch were unforced.
Freshman leads scorers after poor performance
(01/29/14 12:00am)
Freshman Tyler Scaife only shot 1-for-9, scoring 2 points, in the Rutgers women’s basketball team’s game at Temple last Saturday. She earned a vote of confidence from head coach C. Vivian Stringer and it paid off, albeit it in a 80-71 loss to No. 5 Louisville. “One, I knew she had a migraine [against Temple] and, two, when a player demonstrates on a consistent basis, which she did, then you’re more likely to go back to them,” Stringer said.
Early foul trouble costs Rutgers
(01/29/14 12:00am)
Not long into the Rutgers women’s basketball team’s pursuit of a second win against a ranked team last night, arguably the two most important variables were forced to sit and watch. With 14:04 left in the first half, junior wing Betnijah Laney picked up her second foul. Sophomore wing Kahleah Copper collected her third at the 13:18 mark, and the Scarlet Knights’ season-leading scorers went to the bench with foul trouble for the remainder of the period.