A&M, ISU ousted; OU wins

By The Associated Press     Mar 20, 2007

Texas A&M's Takia Starks (3) crashes into the George Washington bench after turning the ball over during the Aggies' 59-47 loss. The Aggies were ousted from the NCAA Tournament on Monday in Los Angeles.

? With star post player Jessica Adair on the bench for much of the game and a step slow when she was in it, George Washington won with smallball.

Kimberly Beck scored 18 points and made a three-pointer that put the game away with 1:40 to play, and fellow guard Sarah-Jo Lawrence added 12 points as fifth-seeded George Washington beat fourth-seeded Texas A&M, 59-47, Monday in the second round of the Dallas Regional.

“Beck took over the game in the second half,” said Texas A&M coach Gary Blair, who lost to his best friend, GW coach Joe McEown.

“She’s one of the top guards in the country. I wouldn’t trade her for anybody,” McEown said. “She’s a special player and a great leader.”

It is the first time in five straight trips to the tournament that the Colonials (28-3) have made it to the round of 16.

George Washington will face either No. 1 seed North Carolina or ninth-seeded Notre Dame, who play tonight, next weekend.

It will be the Colonials’ first trip to the round of 16 since 1997.

“It’s been a long 10 years,” McEown said. “We’ve had a lot of great games in the second round. It just feels good to have a team that wants to keep playing.”

Takia Starks had 15 points for the Aggies (25-7), who had won their first tournament game since 1994 with a 58-50 win over Texas Arlington in Saturday’s first round.

Starks was the lone bright spot for the Aggies, who shot 32.8 percent.

“We missed wide-open, wide-open, wide-open shots,” Blair said.

The 6-foot-4 Adair picked up her fourth foul with 15:02 to play and sat out nearly nine minutes. She had 10 points and five rebounds after getting 15 points and a career-high 21 rebounds in George Washington’s first-round win over Boise State.

Dayton Regional

Oklahoma 78, Marquette 47

Austin, Texas – Courtney Paris got her 60th consecutive double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds despite spending almost 12 minutes of the first half on the bench, and sister Ashley Paris chipped in eight points and 10 boards for the Sooners. Oklahoma (28-4), the No. 3 seed in the Dayton Regional, moves on to the round of 16 for the second consecutive year.

Dallas Regional

Georgia 76, Iowa State 56

Minneapolis – Cori Chambers scored all 18 of her points in a perfect first-half performance, and Georgia advanced to the school’s 17th regional semifinal and fifth in a row.

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