The Rutgers Scarlet Knights women's basketball team had to hold Georgia to their lowest offensive production since their inaugural season in order to squeak by them, 45-34. While neither team's offense was great during the night, the absence of points was only outdone by that of fans.
It's been interesting to watch the Rutgers women battle from the poor start they've gotten off to, the team is clearly missing some of the swagger their two WNBA first-round draft picks Essence Carson and Matee Ajavon brought them at both ends of the court last year.
And the ladies expected to pick up the slack, senior Center Kia Vaughn and junior guard Epiphanny Prince have been inconsistent for much of the year, and the team has followed suit. Vaughn hasn't been the prominent powerhouse she has been the last two seasons, and didn't start for the first time this season, yielding to junior Rashidat Junaid, who only averaged six minutes in the previous three contests.
Prince became an instant storyline during the game, as the stud junior tends to do, by amassing her 1,000th point in 76 games, the sixth fastest player in Rutgers history to reach the milestone. Her second basket of the game, to notch 1,000, also capped a 9-0 Rutgers run that got them back into a game that looked like it was about to become a long one.
Junior guard Brittany Ray has quietly found herself stringing together a few solid games as well, just one point short of being the high scorer (to Epiphanny, unsurprisingly). B-Ray's contribution came from a solid 2-3 from outside the arc and 4-10 FGs, plus the whole 40 minutes. She's scored double digits in the Knights' last three, a feat she's only matched in her first three collegiate games in 2006-07.
