Women's Basketball Roundup - Dec. 19
The Wittenberg women's basketball team is 0-for-3 against nationally ranked teams so far in the 2005-06 season after Saturday's 85-70 loss at DePauw. The road doesn't get much easier, however, although the Tigers do have a 12-day break to prepare for a strong field in the Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic on Dec. 29-30.
The Wittenberg women's basketball team is 0-for-3 against nationally ranked teams so far in the 2005-06 season after Saturday's 85-70 loss at DePauw. The road doesn't get much easier, however, although the Tigers do have a 12-day break to prepare for a strong field in the Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic on Dec. 29-30.
If the prospect of playing Manchester, which is 8-1 in the early going, and defending Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association champion Albion in a two-day span weren't daunting enough, the Tigers then head into North Coast Athletic Conference action right after the calendar flips to 2006. The NCAC appears to be very strong this year, led by nationally ranked defending regular season champion Kenyon and defending conference tournament titlist Denison, which beat Wittenberg three times a year ago and is off to an 8-2 start to this season.
Wittenberg checks in with a 4-4 overall record, although the Tigers have a 2-0 mark in the early going of the NCAC schedule. The Tigers were one of the preseason favorites after tying for second place a year ago. That broke a string of three straight NCAC regular season titles.
In the loss at DePauw, the Tigers picked up a career-high 18 points from sophomore post Ali Rohlfs (Cincinnati, Ohio/Mount Notre Dame), to go along with seven rebounds. Rohlfs is third on the team in scoring with 7.9 points per game and second in reboundings at 5.1 boards per outing.
Junior wing Megan Miller (Lancaster, Ohio/Lancaster) had a solid game as well, but Wittenberg fell behind by 13 by halftime and never managed to get the lead under eight points in the final 20 minutes. Miller, who leads the NCAC with a three-point percentage of 51.2, hit four three-pointers and finished with 14 points.
Miller leads Wittenberg with 11.5 points per game, percentage points better than junior post Kathy Hittle (Noblesville, Ind./Noblesville), who has put together four double-doubles this season and checks in with 11.3 points and a team-best 9.9 rebounds per outing.