Women’s basketball wins thriller in overtime over UAB

Skipper · January 6, 2017

For a brief moment in Birmingham, Alabama, the scoreboard showed UAB 60, UNT 59 at the end of overtime. After a conceding a 15-point fourth quarter lead, tension was high.

That is, until the referees reviewed the last-second basket by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and deemed it was no good.

The result? a 59-58 victory for North Texas, giving the Mean Green (5-9, 2-1) their second consecutive win.

“We know how to buckle down and get a win,” junior forward Tosin Mabodu said. [Heading into overtime we said]’ The game’s not over, we just need stops and rebounds.’”

On a night where North Texas was without starting point guard Kelsey Criner — and a game where no one on the team really took control — eight women played significant minutes and only one scored over eight points. Part of this was due to constant foul trouble, and part was because they did not need anyone to take over because their defense held the Blazers (7-6, 0-2) in check, only allowing 31 points through the first three quarters.

But unlike their previous game against Old Dominion, North Texas was on the receiving end of a huge fourth quarter run, as UAB erased a double-digit deficit with under six minutes to play.

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