Final
for this game
Purdue pulls away late to sink Utah
Mar 24, 2008 - 3:51 AM WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana (Ticker) -- FahKara Malone and Kalika France scored 17 points apiece to help ninth-seeded Purdue topple No. 8 Utah, 66-59, on Sunday in a first-round game of the NCAA Tournament's Oklahoma City Regional.Danielle Campbell added 14 points and Natasha Bogdanova had 12 for the Boilermakers (19-14), who advance to play top-seeded Tennessee on Tuesday night.
With the scored tied at 52-52, Malone hit a jumper with 6:43 to play to put Purdue ahead for good.
Bogdanova buried a 3-pointer to cap an 11-3 run that extended the lead to 63-55 with just 1:03 remaining. She hit 4-of-6 shots from the arc.
Morgan Warburton scored 18 points and Kalee Whipple and Leilani Mitchell added 14 apiece for Utah (27-5), which lost despite a 35-27 edge on the boards.
- OKLAHOMA CITY REGIONAL
AT WEST LAFAYETTE IN
NCAA WOMENS BB OKLAHOMA CITY REGIONAL
FINAL 1ST 2ND TOTAL
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PURDUE (9) 29 37 66
UTAH (8) 28 31 59 FINAL
Mar 23 9:01 PM - OKLAHOMA CITY REGIONAL
AT WEST LAFAYETTE IN
NCAA WOMENS BB (9) PURDUE 29
(8) UTAH 28 HALFTIME
Mar 23 8:14 PM
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