They did it the hard way, too, coming from 13 points down on the road against the defending conference champion. We needed something like this big time. Things didn't look good early. After reserve guard Mollie Owings' baseline jumper beat the horn to cut the deficit to 28-17, the Hokies went to the locker room looking for some answers. Henrickson found one in Williams.
Great players tend to rise to challenges.
Williams rose, all right. As the Hawks' 1-2 scoring tandem of Susan Moran and Jana Lichnerova cooled off, Williams sizzled. Escaping double teams by cutting to the hoop and pounding the glass, she scored 15 of the Hokies' first 26 second-half points. Virginia Tech wasn't about to give it back, either. The stunned Hawks, paced by Moran's 24 points, never got closer than five the rest of the way.