Articles tagged: Women’s Basketball 2016-17


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Lean on Me: Faith Woodard making her mark on women’s basketball

Faith Woodard is trying to leave a legacy. The women’s basketball senior forward played her final regular season home game at historic McDonough Arena on Feb. 19, helping the Hoyas... Read more

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Women’s basketball seniors end home career on a high note

It was a bittersweet afternoon for the seniors on the Georgetown women’s basketball team (17-9, 9-7 Big East), as they won their final home game at McDonough Arena. The team... Read more

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Dogfight: Women’s basketball uses big fourth quarter surge to defeat Butler

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (16-9, 8-7 Big East) won at home, 83-72, against Butler (5-21, 2-13 Big East) on Friday night. Junior guard Dorothy Adomako scored 21 points and... Read more

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Feeling the Blues: Women’s basketball falls to Creighton, snapping Big East winning streak

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (14-8, 6-6 Big East) saw its Big East winning streak come to an end with a loss to the visiting Creighton Blue Jays (17-6, 11-2... Read more

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Women’s basketball earns fifth consecutive Big East win in an overtime thriller

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (14-7, 6-5 Big East) won a thrilling conference contest against the Providence Friars (10-13, 2-10 Big East), 72-70, in overtime on Friday afternoon. Georgetown was... Read more

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Women’s basketball claws past Villanova for fourth straight win

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (13-7, 5-5 Big East) won a low-scoring thriller, 54-49, against the Villanova Wildcats (11-10, 6-4 Big East) on Saturday afternoon. After a 1-5 start to... Read more

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Righting the Ship: Women’s basketball cruises past Seton Hall for second conference win

A breakout night for senior guard Mykia Jones led the Georgetown women’s basketball team (10-7, 2-5 Big East) to a 77-58 victory over Seton Hall (8-10, 1-6 Big East) on... Read more

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Overpowered: Women’s Basketball unable to weather rebounding storm in loss against St. John’s

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (9-7, 1-5 Big East) fell, 71-66, at home to St. John’s (12-5, 4-2 Big East) on Friday night. Junior guard Dorothy Adomako and sophomore guard... Read more

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Facing Their Demons: Women’s basketball loses in Big East opener

Sophomore guard Dionna White’s game-high 18 points weren’t enough to hold off DePaul’s (9-4, 1-0 Big East) second half surge as the Georgetown women’s basketball team (8-3, 0-1 Big East)... Read more

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Rolling into the Holidays: Women’s basketball downs Alabama for seventh straight win

“An SEC opponent, coming into our house?” said Georgetown Head Coach Natasha Adair when asked about her upcoming game against Alabama (7-1, SEC) after Georgetown’s (8-2, Big East) win against... Read more

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Good to be Home: Women’s basketball extends winning streak to six in first home game since Nov. 11

In its first home game since Nov. 11, the Georgetown women’s basketball team (7-2, Big East) defeated George Mason (5-5, Atlantic Ten), 69-56. Georgetown junior forward Dorothy Adomako led all... Read more

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Running the Gauntlet: Women’s basketball captures five wins during extended road trip

“We gutted it out,” said Georgetown Head Coach Natasha Adair. “Sometimes it’s not pretty, but our team doesn’t quit and we gutted it out.” While the “it” Adair mentioned was... Read more

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I Cannot Tell a Lie: Women’s basketball chops down George Washington in season opener

Georgetown fans were in for a rollercoaster ride, albeit a familiar one, as the women’s basketball team (1-0, 0-0 Big East) opened its season against George Washington (0-1, 0-0 Atlantic... Read more