Women's Basketball Downed By Rutgers, 71-47
2/28/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - The Seton Hall women's basketball team closed its regular season with a 71-47 loss to Rutgers on Tuesday night at Walsh Gymnasium. The Pirates (8-21, 1-15) honored Kashmere Joseph (London, England) before the game in Senior Night ceremonies.
April Sykes led the Scarlet Knights (18-11, 11-5) with 25 points, while Chelsey Lee poured in 16. Junior Jasmine Crew (Camden, N.J.) paced the Pirates with 18 points.
With both offenses struggling, Khadijah Rushdan gave Rutgers a 4-2 lead six minutes into the game with a jumper in the lane. Crew was fouled on a three-point attempt at the 13:10 mark, and she sank all three attempts from the stripe to make it 5-4. Chelsey Lee answered with an old-fashioned three-point play on the other end to give the Scarlet Knights a two-point edge.
Crew went coast-to-coast following a steal for a bucket and a foul, and her free throw put the Hall back ahead, 10-9, with 11:35 remaining. The teams traded buckets for several minutes before Erica Wheeler gave Rutgers a 19-15 lead with a three-pointer as the clock approached six minutes. Rushdan followed with a three-point play at the 4:31 mark to stretch the advantage to seven, but freshman Jazzmine Johnson (Glen Dale, Md.) countered from beyond the arc as the Pirates stayed within striking distance.
The Scarlet Knights scored eight unanswered to move ahead by 12 before taking a 30-20 lead into halftime.
Monique Oliver's layup with 15:44 left gave the Scarlet Knights a 37-23 cushion as the visitors found some breathing room, and Sykes dropped in back-to-back three-pointers to make it 47-26 with 12 minutes to go. Rutgers held off any threat by the Pirates the remainder of the way.
The Scarlet Knights hit 52.1 percent from the floor, while the Pirates checked in at 34.0 percent. Rutgers scored 21 points off turnovers and outrebounded the Hall, 35-23.
