That did the trick. Stiles, the nation's leading scorer and closing in on the NCAA career record, finished with 39 points, but had only 11 in the second half. Our defensive execution was almost perfect. Tara Mitchem scored 13 for Southwest Missouri. Stiles now has 3,079 points in her career and needs 44 to break the NCAA record of 3,122 by Mississippi Valley State's Patricia Hoskins.
Stiles can just light it up.
We wanted to make the other people step up and make shots for their team. It proved to be effective. The Lady Bears finished at 47.5 percent after shooting 68 percent in the first half. We were talking about it and said other people would have to have the confidence to shoot for them to get rid of the double team. It never happened.