Women's Basketball
Recent News Updates
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March 7, 2008Women's Basketball: Big Red Falls to DePauw in NCAA First-Round Playing in their fourth straight NCAA Division III Tournament the Big Red have a history of upsetting first-round opponents. Defending national champ DePauw came out of the gates strong and saw to it that they would not be another bullet-point on the Denison resume, eventually stopping the Big Red 70-53 on Friday night. |
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March 5, 2008Women's Basketball: Four Named to All-NCAC Squads Denison juniors Carolyn Simpson and Ellen O'Brien were named to the North Coast Athletic Conference women's basketball first-team on Wednesday. Junior Sarah Perrine earned second-team honors and first-year Haley Dahlgard was the Co-Newcomer of the Year. |
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March 3, 2008Women's Basketball: NCAA Tournament Pairings Announced Denison clinched a berth in this weekend's NCAA Tournament by defeating Wittenberg University in the championship game of the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament on Saturday, March 1. The win marked Denison's fourth consecutive NCAC Tournament title and ran their winning streak in conference tournament play to 12 games. |
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March 1, 2008Women's Basketball: Denison Captures Fourth Consecutive NCAC Tournament Championship Led by Ellen O'Brien's 18 points and a 21-for-27 showing as a team at the free throw line, the Denison Big Red managed to pull away from #3 seed Wittenberg University, capturing their fourth consecutive North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament Championship by a final score of 66-55 on Saturday night at Kenyon College. |
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February 29, 2008Women's Basketball: Denison edges Kenyon to return to NCAC Finals Thanks to some stingy defense by the Big Red that was a throwback to performances of year's past, Denison pulled off the 43-41 victory over the top-seeded Kenyon Ladies and will face #3 seed, Wittenberg on Saturday (March 1) in the 2008 NCAC Championship game at 7 p.m. in Gambier. |
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February 26, 2008Women's Basketball: Denison advances to NCAC Semifinals Denison University got a career-high 16 points from Shaina Kaiser and Ellen O'Brien scored all 10 of her points in the final six minutes of play as the Big Red rallied for a 75-66 victory over Allegheny College in the 2008 North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament. |
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February 25, 2008 Women's Basketball: Denison to host Allegheny in NCAC Quarterfinals The 2008 North Coast Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament will kick off this Tuesday (Feb. 26) and the Big Red will begin their quest for their fourth consecutive conference tournament title against #5 seed, Allegheny College. Tip-off is schedule for 7:30 p.m. at Livingston Gymnasium. |
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February 23, 2008 Women's Basketball: Turnovers costly in loss to Allegheny Stephanie Wolf scored 17 points and Brittany Bell added 16 points as Allegheny College earned a 67-59 win over Denison on Saturday at Livingston Gymnasium. |
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February 20, 2008Women's Basketball: Big Red routs Quakers Haley Dahlgard scored 15 points and led six DU players who reached double figures as the Big Red rolled to a North Coast Athletic Conference win over visiting Earlham College. |
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February 13, 2008 Women's Basketball: Kenyon clinches NCAC title with win over Big Red Kenyon College got 20 points from Alisha Moreno and senior Ann Dugan chipped in 11 points and went over the 1,000 career point plateau as the Ladies handed the Denison Big Red a 69-48 loss on Wednesday at Tomsich Arena. |
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February 9, 2008Women's Basketball: DU wins for the third time this week Junior Katie St. Clair followed up Friday night's career-high 17 point performance with a new career-high, 22 point effort which helped her Denison Big Red to a clear-cut 74-47 victory over Oberlin College on Saturday night at Phillips Gymnasium. |
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February 8, 2008Women's Basketball: Denison completes season sweep versus OWU Katie St. Clair scored a career-high 17 points and the Denison defense clamped down on Ohio Wesleyan, holding the Bishops to a season-low 41 points which resulted in a 61-41 victory by the Denison Big Red on "Think Pink Night" |
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February 6, 2008Women's Basketball: Denison to host "Think Pink" night on Feb. 8 The Denison University women's basketball team is hosting "Think Pink Night" on Friday (Feb. 8) to promote breast cancer awareness. The first 100 students through the door will receive a free "Think Pink" t-shirt. All other fans are encouraged to wear pink to the game. |
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February 5, 2008 Women's Basketball: "Trey chic" 15 3-pointers send Big Red past Quakers The Denison Big Red knocked down a school-record 15 3-pointers and got 19 and 17 points respectively from Sarah Perrine and Haley Dahlgard as DU rolled to a 79-60 road win over Earlham College on Tuesday night. |
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February 2, 2008Women's Basketball: Second Half Defense Sinks Hiram Leading by only four points at the half the Big Red returned to the court with a renewed defensive intensity and ended up holding Hiram to just 15 points in the second half, en route to a 62-40 victory on Saturday at Livingston Gymnasium. |
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January 30, 2008 Women's Basketball: Tigers Trip Up Big Red In the final meeting between two of the North Coast Athletic Conference's title contenders, host Wittenberg utilized a strong rebounding effort while forcing the visiting Big Red into 23 turnovers, resulting in a 65-55 win for the Tigers at the HPER Center in Springfield. |
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January 26, 2008 Women's Basketball: Big Red Picks Up Sixth Conference Win In a rematch of last season's North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament championship game, the Denison defense took a bite of Allegheny, holding the Gators to just five second half field goals en route to the 60-50 victory at the David Wise Center. |
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January 23, 2008Women's Basketball: Kenyon Squeaks By Big Red Kenyon remained perfect in North Coast Athletic Conference play and Denison's five-game winning streak came to an end on Wednesday night following a tightly contested 72-65 win the Kenyon College Ladies on Wednesday night at Livingston Gymnasium. |
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January 23, 2008 Women's Basketball: Listen to Tonight's Webcast Tonight's North Coast Athletic Conference women's basketball clash between first-place Kenyon College and second-place Denison University will be broadcast live by the Denison campus radio station WDUB 91.1 FM and it will be streamed live via their website at www.wdub.org. |
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January 19, 2008 Women's Basketball: Strong first half too much for Oberlin Ellen O'Brien drained a half-court heave at the buzzer to give the Big Red a 38-19 lead at the half - a strong start that propelled Denison to a 82-59 victory Saturday over Oberlin. |
The Big Red women's basketball suffered a first-round defeat to defending champ, DePauw University on Friday night in Greencastle, Ind. It was a magical run for the Big Red who captured their fourth consecutive North Coast Athletic Conference tournament championship despite entering the tournament as the #4 seed. Read all about Denison's run to the tournament at the links below
NCAC Quarterfinal (vs. Allegheny)
