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Senior guard Kaylee Brown looks to pass around Missouri's senior guard LaYoya Bond on Feb. 25. Last Thursday's basketball game against Kansas State marked the first time in 63 games that the Jayhawks failed to make at the three-point basket.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL North Carolina wins ACC tournament title
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Topranked North Carolina avenged its only loss and won another Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship Sunday.
Erlana Larkins scored a career-high 26 points and had 12
rebounds to lead the Tar Heels past fourth-ranked Maryland 91-80, giving the program its second straight ACC tournament title and likely locking up a No. 1 seed for the NCAA tournament.
Ivory Latta also scored 26 to earn MVP honors for North Carolina (29-1), which has won seven straight games since a 98-95 overtime home loss to
theTerrapins last month. It was North Carolina's seventh tournament title overall and marked the second straight year that Latta was named MVP.
Jade Perry scored 18 points to lead five players in double figures for the Terrapins (28-4), who were seeking an unprecedented ninth title but first since 1989.
The Associated Press
Three-point shots haunt Jayhawks
BY RVAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSAN SENIOR SPORTSWITTER
The Kansas women's basketball team made history with its loss Thursday night against Kansas State in Allen Fieldhouse. But it wasn't the kind it hoped to make.
The game marked the first time in the Kansas coach Bonnie Hendrickson era and in 63 games that the Jayhawks failed to make a three-point basket.
Three-point shooting has been a key in Kansas' victories and losses this season. The team shot nearly 40 percent from behind the arc in its 16 victories, but shot only 32 percent in its 11 Big 12 Conference losses. If Kansas hopes to make a run in this week's Big 12 Tournament in Dallas, it will be done behind the three-point line.
In Tuesday night's tournament game against Kansas State, the key will be to use its three-point shooting to take the pressure off senior forward Crystal Kemp in the paint.
Earlier in the season, Kansas was able to make three-pointers early, causing defenders to come out of double teams in the paint. Kemp saw easier looks at the basket because opponents had to back off the double team. She has had 50 more shots in the team's victories because of hot three-point shooting.
"It opens up the inside more for Crystal to score, because they're
THREE POINT PERCENTAGES
Victories (16)
Kaylee Brown — 36 percent
Ivana Caltal — 43 percent
Erica Haliman — 39 percent
Losses (11)
Kaylee Brown — 41 percent
Ivana Catic — 5 percent
Erica Hallman — 33 percent
Source: Kansas Athletics Department
worried about us shooting it outside," said senior guard Kaylee Brown.
Henrickson said her team's three-point shooting woes against Kansas State on Thursday was because of bad looks.
Both Brown and senior guard Eric Hallman finished the season ranked in the top 10 in the conference in three-pointers made. Both averaged nearly three per game. A number of those three-pointers have come off crisp passes and high screens near the three-point line.
"We weren't able to get much separation, and the shots we did get were all contested," Henrickson said.
If Kansas hopes to improve its postseason resume with a Big 12 Tournament run in Dallas, it will be up to its guards to free up the paint for Kemp, with shots behind the arc.
— Edited by Lindsey St. Clair
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Terrapins dispatch No.2 Blue Devils 78-70
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Laura Harper had 17 points to help Maryland end a 14-game losing streak to Duke with a win in the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference women's tournament Saturday.
Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver each scored 16 points for the Terrapins (28-3), whose win set up the match with No. 1 North Carolina in Sunday's final. Monique Currie finished with 18 points but couldn't stop the Blue Devils (26-3) from failing to advance to the final for the first time in seven years.
The Associated Press