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2013-14 women's BASKETBALL SCHEDULE women's basketball: news and notes Double vertime feeling good BY KYLE CHARTERS KCharters@GoldandBlack.com I dle from game action during finals week, the Boilermakers have had a moment to reflect on the first month-and-a-half of the season. And they feel good about where they stand, with a No. 18 ranking nationally and a 6-2 record. The latest victory was a 91-70 AP Top 25 pounding of IPFW (Dec. 9) on Sunday, a nice 1. Connecticut (36) 2. Duke bounce back vic- 3. Tennessee tory after the Boil- 4. Notre Dame 5. Kentucky ermakers had suf- 6. Stanford fered a second-half 7. Louisville 8. Maryland disappointment in 9. Baylor a loss at second- 10. South Carolina 11. Colorado ranked Duke a few 12. Penn State 13. LSU days earlier. 14. Oklahoma State "This tells us 15. North Carolina that we actually 16. Georgia 17. Iowa State learn from games," 18. PURDUE senior Dee Dee 19. Nebraska 20. Oklahoma Williams said af- 21. Iowa ter the win over 22. California 23. Gonzaga 24. Texas A&M 25. Syracuse the Mastodons. "Even from the Stanford game to TCU to Duke, we learned a lot since then. Our passing has gotten better, our inside-outside game has gotten better, so just seeing that and knowing that we're able to learn from other games is really good for this team." Although the Boilermakers lost to Duke, a Final Four contender if not favorUSA Today Top 25 ite for the national (Dec. 9) championship, 1. Connecticut (32) and No. 6 Stanford, 2. Duke 3. Tennessee they can take some 4. Stanford comfort in know5. Notre Dame 6. Kentucky ing they competed 7. Louisville with the powers 8. Maryland 9. Baylor for the first 30 or 10. South Carolina so minutes in each 11. Iowa State 12. Penn State game. Purdue also 13. LSU has quality wins 14. North Carolina 15. Colorado against Ball State 16. Nebraska at home, Toledo on 17. Georgia 18. Oklahoma State the road and TCU 19. Oklahoma in the Thanksgiv20. Texas A&M 21. California ing holiday event, 22. Gonzaga three teams that 23. PURDUE 24. Iowa 25. Florida State might be looking at a bid to the NCAA Tournament come March. Coach Sharon Versyp says the Boilers have progressed well in each of their games. "I see my job as being a teacher and you want to be able to grow in each facet," she said. "Like math, you have to accumulate, you have to know this to understand that. I think we have great leadership, our three seniors do a great job of leading and Liza (Clemons) has taken on some leadership role in the post. … We're just learning quite a bit (from past games)." Purdue has high exTom Campbell pectations for the season. Although it came Dee Dee Williams and the Boilermakers started the season have several challenging games into the year with legiti- 6-2, butthe Big Ten season in January. ahead before the start of mate concerns about won largely based on the scoring its frontcourt, where depth is limited, Purdue has held threat of seniors KK Houser and up OK there, with Clemons' solid Courtney Moses, who are averplay and the emergence of for- aging 14.7 and 14.6 points per game, respectively. And sophomer transfer Whitney Bays. But the Boilermakers have more April Wilson has been a DateOpponent Nov. 3 CLARK (exh.) (BTND) Nov. 10 BALL STATE (BTND) Nov. 13 at IUPUI Nov. 17 at Toledo Nov. 22 BELMONT Time/Result W, 102-33 W, 63-57 W, 75-56 W, 81-79 W, 76-46 Puerto Vallarta Holiday Tournament Nov. 26 No. 6 Stanford Nov. 28 TCU L, 69-86 W, 75-68 ACC/Big Ten Challenge Dec. 5 at No. 2 Duke L, 78-99 Dec. 8 Dec. 15 Dec. 18 Dec. 22 Dec. 28 Jan. 2 Jan. 6 Jan. 9 Jan. 12 Jan. 15 Jan. 19 Jan. 23 Jan. 27 Jan. 30 Feb. 2 Feb. 6 Feb. 9 Feb. 16 Feb. 20 Feb. 23 March 2 March 6-9 W, 91-70 3 p.m. 7 p.m. Noon 2 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 2 p.m. 7 p.m. 5 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 7 p.m. Noon 2 p.m. 8 p.m. 2 p.m. 2 p.m. TBA IPFW at Kansas at Green Bay BOWLING GREEN CENTRAL MICHIGAN at Ohio State INDIANA (BTN) at Northwestern at Penn State (ESPN2) MICHIGAN (BTND) at Nebraska (BTN) NORTHWESTERN (BTN) at Illinois (BTN) PENN STATE (BTN) at Michigan State (BTN) OHIO STATE (BTND) at Michigan (BTN) IOWA (BTND) at Minnesota WISCONSIN (BTN) NEBRASKA (ESPN2) Big Ten Tournament* * Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis steady influence at the point. "I'm proud of this group," Versyp said. "I'm hard as heck on them. Nothing is satisfying. I keep telling these three seniors that I want them to leave a legacy and everybody else has got to keep playing for them and for Purdue. But when you're a senior, that sense of urgency goes up." Purdue has more challeng- GoldanDBlack express • volume 24, express 14 • 24