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Wednesday, March 20, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NCAA TOURNAMENT
Colorado women plan to learn from early exit
Coach looks forward to promising recruits leadership by seniors
The Associated Press
BOLDER, Colo. — For the first time in four years, Colorado is not headed to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA women's tournament, and coach Ceal Barry knows why.
Her team did not shoot well enough against Auburn in a 68-61 overtime loss in the second round Sunday night. The Buffaloes also are not as athletic as the two Southeastern Conference teams that ousted them from the tournament the last two years
Georgeth and Auburn
— Georgia and Auburn.
"We need some quickness on the wing, at the two and three spots," Barry said Monday. "We got beat last season and this by two SEC teams that had athletic ability, size, speed. There were matchups that put us at a disadvantage."
Colorado, which finished 26-9, loses three seniors — guards DeCelle Thomas and Amy Palmer and forward Aleksandra Slokar.
Barry immediately returned to recruiting on Monday and plans to be at the National Junior College Tournament in Texas.
Colorado signed 5-foot-7 shooting guard Rasheedla Clark of Ontario, Calif., during the fall signing period and to land two more 6-3 post players.
Erin Scholz and Raegan Scott will be seniors next season.
"I can look back now and say we had a pretty good year," Barry said. "I thought this
"When your expectations get to a certain level, it takes more to satisfy you."
team showed a lot of character many, many times. We won the preseason NIT, won the Big Eight Tournament, got into the NCAA's. Maybe we could have gone a little further.
"When your expectations get to a certain level, it takes more to satisfy you. But we've got a good core to add onto here."
Against Auburn, the Buffaloes suffered their third-worst shooting performance of
Colorado women's basketball coach
noting just 29 percent (19 of 66). The most glaring misses were from the perimeter. The Bucks made only two of a season-high 20 shots from 3-point range.
"Shooting is a momentum thing," Barry said. "If one or two players start hitting, others will. But nobody did."
Although Colorado didn't lack for open perimeter shots, many inside chances were
contested by Auburn's stifting matchup zone. Starting front-lineiners Scholz, Scott and Lauri Weathers combined to shoot 9-for-29 from the field.
"They never gave Erin an easy shot," Barry said. "She earned all of her free throws."
Scholz, who finished with 22 points and 13 rebounds, hit 12 of 17 free throws.
As a team, the Buffalooes hit 21 of 31 from the line — which Barry concedes isn't good enough to advance in NCAA play.
"If you're not as athletic and quick as the other team, you have to do a lot right all the time," she said.
Barry said Scholz was the most pleasant surprise of the season.
Freshman guard Michelle Hasheider will undergo surgery Friday on her lower left leg to correct a muscle problem.
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