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Tuesday, February 27, 2001
Scarlet Knights secure No. 3 seed in Big East
Associated Press
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WASHINGTON -- Only one part of the triple-double is
important to Tasha Pointer.
|  | | Rutgers' Tasha Pointer (43) passes the ball away on her way to a 18-point, 10-rebound, 10-assist night.
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Pointer had 18 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for her Big
East regular-season record fourth triple-double and Rutgers
pulled away from Georgetown for a 65-48 victory Tuesday night.
Rutgers had already secured the third seed in the upcoming Big
East tournament and will play the winner of Saturday's Seton
Hall-Providence game on Sunday. Georgetown will be the eighth seed
and play Syracuse on Saturday.
"There's only one stat that I'm judged by -- and that's assists,"
Pointer said. "I couldn't have a triple-double or anything if it
weren't for my teammates finishing layups and making themselves
available so I can take the open shots."
Pointer was the controlling force on offense for Rutgers (21-6,
13-3; No. 11 ESPN/USA Today; No. 9 Associated Press) which used a 24-8 run to break open a one-point game at
halftime. In the second half Rutgers went away from its outside
shooting and began to pound the ball inside to Tammy Sutton-Brown.
She scored the first 11 points of the decisive run that gave the
Scarlet Knights a 54-37 lead with 7:54 to play.
"(Going inside) was something we wanted to do in the first
half, but we didn't get to it," Sutton-Brown said. "It was
reinforced at halftime, and it worked pretty well in the second."
Pointer, who played all 40 minutes, got an assist on a fastbreak
layup by Mandakova Clark with 3:36 to play to complete the
triple-double.
Rebekkah Brown had 26 points and 12 rebounds for Georgetown
(15-13, 6-10). She scored 16 points in the first half, but was the
only Georgetown player to make a field goal during the first 11:30
of the second half.
"We knew the ball was going to go inside to Brown," Georgetown
coach Patrick Knapp said. "Tasha Pointer showed why she's a hell
of a point guard because she got in the lane consistently whether
we were playing man or zone. We obviously didn't play her right."
Rutgers held Georgetown to 32 percent shooting for the game, and
would not allow the Hoyas to get back into the game from 3-point
range as they went 0-for-7 from beyond the arc in the second half.
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