{"id":33281,"date":"2015-03-11T19:07:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T23:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=33281"},"modified":"2015-03-11T19:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T23:07:20","slug":"toledo-women-come-up-short-against-eastern-michigan-in-second-round-of-mac-tournament-74-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_11_2015\/toledo-women-come-up-short-against-eastern-michigan-in-second-round-of-mac-tournament-74-57","title":{"rendered":"Toledo women come up short against Eastern Michigan in second round of MAC Tournament, 74-57"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 7 seed Toledo sustained a 74-57 loss to No. 6 seed Eastern Michigan Wednesday in the second round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. <\/p>\n

With the setback, UT falls to 18-13 on the season.<\/p>\n

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Freshman Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott tied a school-tourney record with seven triples and finished with a career-high 30 points.<\/p><\/div>The Rockets now will have to wait until Monday, March 16, to find out if they have been picked to participate in a post-season tournament.<\/p>\n

Freshman Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott tied a school-tourney record with seven triples and finished with a career-high 30 points. The 2014-15 MAC Freshman of the Year shot an impressive 7 of 14 from beyond the arc and scored in double figures for the 16th time this year, the second-highest total on the team. Bravo-Harriott equaled the school record held by Jessica Williams, who dropped in seven treys against Ohio in the quarterfinals March 13, 2009.<\/p>\n

UT\u2019s next high scorers were senior Inma Zanoguera and sophomore Sophie Reecher with eight points each. Reecher just missed a double-double, as she pulled down a collegiate-best 16 boards.<\/p>\n

Toledo was held in check offensively all afternoon and limited to 28.6 percent (20 of 70) from the field, including 28.1 percent (9 of 32) from three-point range, to bow out of the tourney against the Eagles (20-11) for the second time in the last four years.<\/p>\n

Cha Sweeney led Eastern Michigan with 29 points, followed by Janay Morton with 19 and Briana Puni with 10.<\/p>\n

EMU, which never trailed in the contest, hit five of its first 10 shots and jumped out to a 12-3 lead, forcing Toledo into a timeout with 15:20 left in the first half. The duo of Morton and Sweeney sparked the strong start with a pair of treys.<\/p>\n

The Rockets struggled to put the ball in the basket as the first half wore on and trailed 16-6 at the 11:40 mark. UT missed 14 of its first 16 field-goal attempts and as a result found itself down 10 points nearing the midway point of the opening stanza.<\/p>\n

UT\u2019s Bravo-Harriott then started to heat up and buried five three-point field goals in a span of 10-plus minutes to trim the deficit to 21-18 with 8:51 remaining in the half.<\/p>\n

Toledo fed off Bravo-Harriott\u2019s hot shooting and put together a mini 10-4 burst to close the margin to 29-28, prompting EMU into calling a timeout at the 1:23 mark. The big shot in the rally was a four-point play from junior Ana Capotosto.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the Midnight Blue and Gold, the stoppage cooled off the Rockets and allowed EMU to score the final four points and take a 33-28 lead at the intermission. <\/p>\n

Eastern Michigan’s Sweeney came out red-hot shooting the ball to start the second half and scored 12 of her team\u2019s first 14 points to extend the lead to 47-36 at the 15:08 mark. The Toledo native hit four shots from the field in the opening four-plus minutes, including back-to-back triples, to force Toledo into calling another timeout.<\/p>\n

The Rockets continued to play from behind but stayed within striking distance on the strength of back-to-back three pointers from Bravo-Harriott to make the score 59-48 with 7:24 left in regulation.<\/p>\n

Toledo could not pull any closer, though, as Sweeney and the Eagles were too much to handle in the second round of this year\u2019s post-season event.<\/p>\n

Eastern Michigan shot an impressive 45.9 percent (28 of 61) from the field and will play No. 3 seed Akron in the third round Thursday, March 12, at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freshman Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott drained seven triples and finished with a career-high 30 points as the Rockets fell to Eastern Michigan, 74-57, in the second round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}