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Welle
scores 29 as No. 6 Cyclones drop Mississippi St. AMES, IOWA (11/23/01) - Burned once by an opposing player, Iowa State made sure it did not happen again.
Angie Welle scored 29 points and No. 6 Iowa State controlled Mississippi State All-America LaToya Thomas with a collapsing 2-3 zone in beating the Lady Bulldogs 87-74 Friday to win the Coaches vs. Cancer Challenge. Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly was miffed after DePaul's Lenae Williams scored 41 points in the Cyclones' first-round victory on Wednesday night. His team came back with much better defense on Thomas, who was averaging 29 points but scored only 10 on 5-for-15 shooting. "We didn't want to let her beat us," Fennelly said. "We ran people at her from every angle. We changed where the double-team was coming from at every timeout. We wanted to make her take tough shots, keep the ball out of her hands, and I thought we did that." That strategy
backfired at times because Mississippi State got numerous open shots
from the perimeter and went 14-for-22 from 3-point range. But the
Lady Bulldogs could not keep Iowa State off the boards and had no
answer for Welle, who had a 4-inch height advantage on her tallest
defender and made 13-of-17 shots. "I think we broke all the rules we ever learned and that's never throw a lob," Welle said. "That's just what we did. They were going to work to get in front of us and I think this was the one opportunity we had to practice our lobs." Tracy Gahan added 22 points and Lindsey Wilson 16 for Iowa State (3-0), which outrebounded Mississippi State 45-33 and outscored the Lady Bulldogs 16-0 at the free throw line. Mississippi State did not shoot a free throw until just 3:18 remained, and finished 0-for-2. Gahan also had nine rebounds, five assists and four steals, and was selected the tournament's most valuable player. "We tried hard to get to the free throw line," said freshman Tan White, who led Mississippi State (3-1) with 28 points. "We played hard. We just couldn't get the calls." Jessica Carter added 12 points for the Lady Bulldogs. Both Carter and White both were 4-for-5 on 3-pointers, but their hot shooting could not tempt Fennelly to abandon his plan of concentrating on Thomas. "We never
for one second thought about changing," he said. "She's
too good." Down by eight
early in the second half, Mississippi State got two 3-pointers each
from Carter and White and took a 52-50 lead when White stole the
ball and made a layup. Iowa State tied
it when Melanie Bremer scored off an offensive rebound and Gahan
followed with a 3-pointer off a pass from Wilson, who had eight
assists. That put the Cyclones up 55-52 and they led the rest of
the way. Iowa State got
its transition game going, and Gahan's layup finished a 20-5 run
that made it 72-57 with 4:23 to play. "When we play well, we defensive-rebound and run," Fennelly said. "That's our game." |
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