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Thursday, March 15
Heading East with a plan
Associated Press
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- At first there was bitterness at the
thought of traveling over 2,000 miles to the NCAA tournament's East
Regional in Connecticut.
Now the Colorado State women's basketball team sees it as a
challenge.
"Sure, we felt slighted, but now we look at it as an
opportunity of becoming the best by beating the best," said junior
guard Angie Gorton. "We are going to a place we've seen on TV all
the time. Now we'll be playing there."
The ninth-seeded Rams (24-6) face eighth-seeded Maryland (17-11)
at the University of Connecticut. With a victory, Colorado State
would face host Connecticut, the region's top seed and the No.
2-ranked team in the country.
"It is difficult not to think about Connecticut," Colorado
State coach Tom Collen said. "Our goal is certainly to get to that
game, but we have a tremendous challenge ahead of us first in
Maryland."
Collen sees some similarity between his team and Maryland. Like
the Rams, Maryland likes to push the ball up the court and play an
up-tempo game.
"They have a good inside game and they like to pound the ball
inside," Collen said. "Their rebounding is strong and they use it
to run out in transition and get easy baskets."
Collen the game could go to the team with the more effective
running game. The Rams also need to keep up their 3-point shooting,
after going 216 of 619 this year.
"These two teams look to accomplish things different ways,"
Collen said. "They want to get lay-ups. We want to get
3-pointers."
The teams did not have a common opponent this year. But Collen
said he was encouraged by two Duke victories over Maryland.
"We have the same type of athleticism, the same type of good
outside shooters who pass the ball around and like Duke we are
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