Jennifer Bushby hit a buzzer beater at the end of the game, but the Bobcats weren't celebrating.
Bushby made it with Ohio down four, giving the Bobcats a 58-57 loss to Akron yesterday at James A. Rhodes Arena.
A loss is a loss
Semeka Randall said. Whether you lose by 20 or lose by one you didn't win the basketball game.
At the end of the day, all you know is that it takes one point to win a game, and we just didn't get it done.
After missing last Saturday's game against Buffalo Bushby returned to the starting lineup yesterday. She scored a team-high 17 points
but her return wasn't enough.
Bushby and Kamille Buckner led the Bobcats on a 24-12 run during the last seven minutes of the game. Buckner scored seven points
and Bushby scored three 3-pointers in the last 23 seconds.
Those three-pointers were the only ones that the Bobcats hit the entire game.
The Bobcats were anemic offensively
shooting 40 percent from the field.
Jenny Poff
Ohio's deep threat
was just one for seven from the field. Her one field goal came with 10.7 seconds remaining in the game. She finished with five points.
Ohio also struggled from the free throw line. The Bobcats shot 12-of-25 from the charity stripe.
The team had troubles making free throws down the stretch
making just four of their nine attempts.
You've got to step up on the free throw line and knock a shot down, she said. This game, we didn't get it done from the free throw line, and it cost us.
The Bobcats weren't helped by an eight-minute drought in the middle of the first half.
After jumping out to a 10-4 lead in the first four minutes
Ohio didn't score until the 8:11 mark on a layup by Da'Keisha Mann.
Ohio went on to score only four points for the rest of the half.
Randall challenged her players following the loss.
That was just a lack of (maturity) and the leaders not taking ownership of their team, she said. They didn't put the pressure on themselves to win this basketball game.
Akron's Kara Murphy
the leading scorer in the Mid-American Conference
