Four of the eight seeds for the recent Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) women’s basketball tournament were decided on split votes, according to Danielle Harris, the conference commissioner. In response to a state open records law request, Harris sent the following email to the Chippewa Valley Post: “No minutes have been drafted for the WIAC […]
Blugold women will start NCAA title quest at home on Friday evening
The UW-Eau Claire women’s basketball team will begin its NCAA Division III tournament play at Zorn Arena on Friday (Mar. 4) against North Central University, a Minneapolis school that won the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference tournament by defeating Minnesota-Morris 52-47.
The Blugolds assured themselves of the WIAC’s automatic bid to the national tournament Friday night by overcoming a 13-point second half deficit to overwhelm UW-Whitewater 77-63 and win their first conference tournament title since 2003. That team made it to the Final Four and finished in third place.
UW-EC Athletics Director Dan
Schumacher said the Blugolds’ game will tip off at 7:30 p.m. Friday. It will be preceded at 5 p.m. by a matchup between Millikin and Wartburg, two at-large entries in this year’s tournament.
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Basketball: UW-EC women nip Oshkosh as time expires
NOTE: Although the CVPost doesn’t ordinarily cover sports, we’re making an exception in this case, to provide a timely account of the Blugold women’s last-second win Friday night over UW Oshkosh.
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By David Gordon, associate editor
Tyra Boettcher went scoreless for the first 39-plus minutes of Friday night’s women’s basketball game between UW-Eau Claire and UW Oshkosh, taking only a single shot.
But she was in the middle of the Blugolds’ four points in the last 17 seconds, as they beat the Titans 64-62 on Katie Essen’s basket at the buzzer.
The win clinched home court advantage for UW-EC (7-1) throughout the WIAC post-season tournament, which starts on Monday.