Getting separate tip off in our second post-season
WNIT semifinal between the Ole Miss Rebels
and the Northern Iowa Panthers.
The 32-team field, just three remain.
Rice already into the final.
Snudda Collins first jumper from the right baseline
is a smooth stroke.
Johnson fumbled it for a moment, got it back.
The timer is short.
Austin hits the fadeaway.
Scott.
Austin one-on-one, going to pull the trigger.
...all of ten.
Scott will try it and hit.
Went over the top of the 6-foot-3 Cynthia Wolf.
Collins, shot won't go though.
The backside rebound.
The dirty work done by Caitlin McGee.
Back to hole goes -- Stop.
And now the pressure...
Nesbitt, such a critical energy player for Ole Miss.
Austin up and over.
Puts up a desperate heave with the right hand.
Going the other way, Austin fades it through.
Iowa staying with the zone.
Ole Miss, not the sharpest of shooting teams,
but this one hits.
Tiya Douglas.
Environment that Reid comes from,
not a lot rattles you.
Off the hand off.
The shot converted for Taylor Smith.
End point, Rebels lead.
Austin on the feed.
Scott cutting to the hold, and Tanya Warren wants time-out.
31-25, it stays in a six-point margin.
Austin at the other end, got by Maahs.
Got it through the hole.
Johnson go it.
We'll see if that gets her going.
Middle, Douglas, double team,
finally got it away in the nick of time.
Nesbitt came up and went back down.
People are on their feet.
Douglas silences them.
Again, the zone from UNI.
Lobbed down low.
Great feed on the catch and the put in as well.
Short on the three.
Three on one break.
Reid, the drop off.
Scott the floater.
...from the outside.
They've applied this zone pressure,
variations of it, since the second quarter.
This time, it's split by Jacorriah Bracey.
McGee, the spacing is a little bit off
for the Rebels right now, against the zone.
McGee down low, Austin on the find.
McGee, Austin for the baseline.
Got the look, got the shot.
To the basketball with Karli Rucker.
Johnson looking to poke it free.
[ Speaks indistinctly ] Couldn't get it back.
Reid on the break, almost lost the handle,
but puts up a feathery layup.
And that will be it.
Kam Finley a three, not there with the horn.
The Ole Miss Rebels survive and advance
with a 60-50 victory over Northern Iowa.
They will meet the Rice Owls Sunday at 1:00 Central time,
for the right to call themselves WNIT champions.