Pitt
Duke
Pittsburgh Falls to Duke, 93-55
11/24/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Nov. 24, 2010
PITTSBURGH – Senior Taneisha Harrison (Bowie, Md.) had a season-high 16 points, but it was not enough to stop No. 6/6 Duke as the Panthers dropped a 93-55 decision on Wednesday at the Petersen Events Center.
Senior Brittaney Thomas (Montgomery, Ala.) added 12 points and Shayla Scott (Monroeville, Pa.) had 10 for the Panthers (2-2).
Senior Jasmine Thomas had 16 points and freshman Shay Selby had a career-high 15 points for Duke (5-0), which had six players score at least 10 points.
Trailing by four early, Pitt scored the game’s next six points to take an 8-6 lead. Harrison started the run with a drive inside and closed it off a give-and-go from classmate Jania Sims (Newark, N.J.) at the 16:34 mark.
The Panthers took their largest lead of the game at 15-12 on a three-pointer by Sims with 12:12 on the clock.
Duke, however, would slowly inch away. With the score tied for the sixth time of the game at 17-17, the Blue Devils compiled an 11-2 run to push ahead 23-19. Selby had five of the 11 points for the Blue Devils over the four-minute span. Pitt closed to seven points twice over the final two minutes of the first half, but a Duke bucket at the buzzer would make the deficit nine (43-34) at intermission.
The Blue Devils started the second period on a 10-4 tear to move ahead, 53-38, at the 16:10 mark. The Panthers missed four of their first five shots of the stanza. After a called timeout, Harrison drained a three-pointer - her second of the night - from the far baseline to close the deficit to 12 (41-53).
Duke responded with two straight buckets before Scott drilled a triple to make it 57-44. Duke would again, answer, this time on a turnaround jumper from freshman Haley Peters in the paint and a pair of free throws by J. Thomas, which resulted from a steal, to pull ahead, 61-44 with 13:42 remaining.
Pitt could get no closer with Duke hitting over 50 percent of its shots in its third-straight game en route to the 93-55 difference.
The Panthers host Loyola (Md) on Sunday, Nov. 28 at 2 p.m.
