BALTIMORE — It is already the winningest season in the historical past of Johns Hopkins ladies’s basketball. The Blue Jays need to maintain issues rolling.
“This is loopy,” stated middle Jadyn Murray. “It is such a privilege to be a staff of 64 in the tournament. But then with the ability to be 16 left, that’s completely insane.”
No. 15 Hopkins performs in the Sweet 16 of the Division III NCAA Tournament on Friday, at top-seeded NYU, towards the No. 5 Scranton.
This season the Jays have received a program-record 26 video games. Their newest was a 77-75 victory final weekend at No. 4 Christopher Newport in the spherical of 32. It ended CNU’s 54-game house successful streak, which was the longest energetic streak in Division III.
“This previous weekend was one in all the most enjoyable basketball video games I’ve ever performed,” stated ahead Greta Miller. “I don’t suppose I ended smiling till I went to mattress after which I awoke smiling.”
“We know that we will beat actually nice groups and that we will cling with top-ten groups,” added guard Elisabeth Peebles, the Blue Jays’ main scorer.
Macie Feldman has been an enormous spark. The sophomore guard averaged 9.7 factors per recreation in the common season. She is averaging 17.5 in the tournament.
“I went out on the courtroom simply actually assured and when I’ve confidence in myself I do know I play my greatest basketball,” she stated.
Feldman and her teammates are enjoying their greatest basketball below the management of first-year head coach Rodney Rogan.
“To be in the Sweet 16 is one thing that hasn’t been performed right here in some time,” stated Rogan. “These type of alternatives don’t come all the time. To nonetheless be one in all 16 groups enjoying with a chance to compete for a nationwide championship, that is why you do it.”
Tip-off Friday towards Scranton is at 4:30 p.m.
The final time Hopkins was in the Sweet 16 was 1998. They have solely superior to the Elite Eight as soon as. That was in 1997 once they misplaced to Scranton. If you ask these women, 27 years is not too late for a bit of redemption.
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