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Wolfpack pulls one out for coach
Associated Press
Published March 1, 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. - Marquetta Dickens scored all her 11 in the second half, and No.19 North Carolina State welcomed Hall of Fame coach Kay Yow back to the bench with a ragged 69-45 victory over Clemson on Monday night.
Billie McDowell had 17 points and Khadija Whittington 15 for the Wolfpack.
Yow missed the previous game with the flu, the third one she has sat out this season. In January, she began treatment for a recurrence of breast cancer that forced her to skip two games, her first absences in 30 years of coaching.
Considering how the Wolfpack played in the first half, Yow might have wished she could have avoided this one, too.
It shot 27 percent and trailed most of the half before a late run gave it a 22-19 lead. The Tigers, who have lost 13 of 14, matched N.C. State's 8-for-30 shooting.
Tasha Taylor led Clemson with 12 points and Reggie Maddox added 10.
Dickens and McDowell got the Wolfpack offense going in the second half. Dickens made a 3-pointer midway through to give N.C. State a 40-29 lead, its first double-figure margin of the game. Later, after Clemson closed within nine, McDowell added her second straight 3 to make it 50-38.
NO.25 MARYLAND 87, N.COLO. 79: Crystal Langhorne had 33 points and 11 rebounds to lead the host Terrapins. Langhorne's three-point play put Maryland up for good 80-77 with 2:32 left.
USF: Jessica Dickson was named Conference USA co-player of the week with DePaul's Jenni Dant. Dickson, a sophomore, scored a C-USA game-high 34 Saturday in a 70-43 win over UAB and topped 1,000 points for her career.
AP POLL: North Carolina jumped four spots to No.4 after beating Duke for the second time. The Blue Devils fell from second to sixth, the week's sharpest drop. LSU was a unanimous No.1 for the fourth straight week.
OBITUARY: Maureen Mooney, co-captain of Immaculata College when it won the first national women's title in 1972 and repeated in 1973, died Wednesday in Philadelphia. She was 53.
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