THE UNIVERSITY. DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
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Sutherland breaks records in final matchup
ASHLEIGH LEE/KANSAN
Senior forward Aishah Sutherland puts the ball up to the basket during Sunday afternoon's game against Missouri at the Mizzou Arena where Kansas won 72-63 and Sutherland had a total of 24 points.
KATHLEEN GIER
kgier@kansan.com
Senior forward Aishah Sutherland has been working this season on consistency. In a slow first half for the rest of the Jayhawks, Sutherland stepped out and hit a series of jump shots to lead the Jayhawks with 12 points. She continued in the second half, scoring another 12 to match her career-high with 24 points.
"How good was she?" coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "She's gonna want to send that one to an agent, I can tell you that right now."
Sutherland led the Jayhawks out of Columbia, Mo. with a 72-63 win, the last before the Tigers leave for the SEC.
In regards to consistency, she cc.aldn't have been much better, hitting nine of 11 shots from the field and all six free throws. The defense collapsed on junior forward Carolyn Davis, which provided Sutherland with clean looks outside.
"I have always been working on those and since they doubled in on Carolyn, that gave me an opportunity to knock them down," Sutherland said.
Sutherland passed her season-high 21 points in the second half.
and recorded her second best shooting percentage of the year. She rounded out her afternoon with nine rebounds, two blocks, one assist and one steal. Her two blocks put her second in program history with 127 blocks.
"From an effort standpoint, her numbers her senior year are off the chart." Henrickson said.
Sutherland has scored in double figures in 14 of the team's 16 games so far.
"She was awesome today and that's what we like to see from her," junior guard Angel Goodrich said. "She has so much potential and when she breaks out like that, we need her. That's what we need from her every game."
Goodrich dished six assists in the game and became the fifth player in franchise history to have 400 assists. She was also the fastest to do so with 405 in 58 games.
In the first half, Missouri built up a seven point lead, but Kansas caught up with a 9-0 run before the break. Junior guard Monica Engelman hit a jump shot at the top of the key to give Kansas a two point lead.
"Bonnie told us we needed to make our offense from our defense, so that's where we started getting on
our run, when we started getting stops and then that generated our offense," Engelman said.
In the second half, Kansas built the lead to 13 points as it pulled away behind Sutherland and Davis, who combined for 48 of the team's 72 points.
"Those are two nice athletes and players," Missouri coach Robin Pingeton said. "They have a nice touch and they almost make it look effortless at times."
The Jayhawks capitalized off Missouri mistakes, scoring 17 points off the Tigers' 18 turnovers.
They held Missouri forward Christine Flores to only six points off three of seven shooting from outside the 3-point line. Flores has been averaging 20 points this season so far. The Kansas forwards focused on taking her off her traditional ball-screen game.
With the focus on Flores, BreAnna Brock took the lead for Missouri and finished with 26 points.
Kansas will travel to Stillwater, Okla. to take on Oklahoma State on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Edited by Gabrielle Schock
Player PPG FG% FT% RPG MINS
C. Davis 18.1 .627 .702 6.3 28.2
A. Sutherland 13.6 .524 .677 8.8 30.6
A. Goodrich 12.0 .463 .614 3.9 35.7
M. Engelman 9.9 .415 .886 3.3 28.5
T. Jackson 5.5 .471 .650 3.3 13.8
N. Knight 5.1 .409 .708 2.9 28.7
C. Gardner 3.0 .640 .200 1.6 5.2
A. Boyd 2.6 .350 .750 1.3 8.4
B. Williams 2.5 .450 .625 2.5 11.4
C. Harper 2.3 .286 .750 1.9 12.4
D. Breaux 0.7 .231 .500 1.0 5.7
Team 75.9 .489 .696 38.8
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