Saves the season.
Basketball is very much a game of confidence, of swagger, of emotion.
IMO, it would have been hard for this team to recover from a loss here.
'66 great points. Tekia Mack was an absolute monster tonight. Talk about a savior of the team that came along just in time. A player who up until tonight averaged less than 4 points a game scoring 24. Amazing. IMO she may have saved this season, because this team has been in crisis mode ever since losing Jenkins.
I really believe after the debacle of the OSU blowout on our court that the team was so mentally and emotionally gone, that they may not win another game this season. I am sooooooooo happy to be wrong. And tonight, when it looked like everything was going south when Indiana made that 17-0 run or whatever it was from the carryover of the first half, it looked as if Rutgers was done. Not so. Along came Tekia Mack, who said, "No more. None of that. I'm gonna take over this game and we're going to stop this losing streak right here, right now." And just like that she hit 3 threes and drove down the middle of the paint to score a layup. And instead of being down by 7-9 points going into the 4th quarter, we were only down one. I knew then and there that tonight was going to be our night. Thank you Tekia Mack. Now, let's start a new winning streak.