Sarah Green had five points in the run, while Jeanette Franken and Sarah Fouts each had four. Last year, in a similar situation, we would have said it was over. But the core has been playing together for a year now, and we have the maturity now to pull ourselves back up and hold it together. The first-half total of seven fouls was quickly eclipsed in the second. After taking only two shots from the charity stripe in the first half, Centre hit 14 of its 17 free-throw attempts in the second half, with Jeanette Franken making nine of 10.
Free throws are all mental.
They should be given points. The first half, they let some things go, but in the second half it was hard to get into any kind of a flow. Those are things you have to adjust to, and for the first 10 minutes, I don't think we did a good job of that. Centre was able to atone for that, and continued to hit shots from all over the floor. Centre has not shot worse than 45 percent in any of those wins.