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Alyssa Fischer
Alyssa Fischer
76
Milwaukee UWM 18-11, 12-6 HL
80
Winner Detroit DETROIT 15-14, 11-7 HL
Milwaukee UWM
18-11, 12-6 HL
76
Final
80
Detroit DETROIT
15-14, 11-7 HL
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Milwaukee UWM 20 17 22 17 76
Detroit DETROIT 17 16 19 28 80

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Cohen’s Career Day Helps Detroit Squeak By Milwaukee

Panthers play next Saturday in tournament semifinal

DETROIT – Five players scored in double figures but the Milwaukee women's basketball team came up just short to Detroit Saturday afternoon, falling 80-76 from inside Calihan Hall.
 
Brianne Cohen had a career-high 33 points, including going 15-16 from the free throw line – both also career highs – to help Detroit (15-14, 11-7 Horizon) hand UWM its first loss in nearly a month.
 
Milwaukee – which had already locked up the No. 2 seed and the double bye in next week's conference tournament – finishes the regular season with an 18-11 record overall and a 12-6 league record. Both of those are the best finishes for Milwaukee since the 2005-06 team finished 22-9.
 
This comes after the Panthers were picked ninth of 10 in the Horizon League preseason poll.
 
"Detroit deserves a lot of credit. They came out here and executed their game plan today," Milwaukee head coach Kyle Rechlicz said. "We just didn't play the way we're capable of playing. It's not the way we wanted to end our regular season, but now we'll turn our attention to the postseason and get ready for our conference tournament."
 
Jenny Lindner led the Panthers' offense with 20 points – including 14 in the third quarter – and seven rebounds. Sierra Ford-Washington stuffed the stat sheet with 14 points, five rebounds and seven assists, while Steph Kostowicz added 13 points and nine boards.
 
Milwaukee also had some big contributions off the bench with career games for both Christina Wakeman and Alyssa Fischer. Wakeman had a new career-high 12 points to go with four rebounds, while Fischer tied her career high with 10 points.
 
In the game's early going, Milwaukee found itself down 17-15, only to go on a big run to take control.
 
Fischer started it off with a three followed by four straight points by Ford-Washington. After a Detroit bucket, it was another jumper by Fischer sandwiched by triples from Kostowicz and Ford-Washington to cap the 15-4 Panther run and force a UDM timeout at the 7:02 mark in the second quarter.
 
Detroit fought back though and cut the UWM lead to just 37-33 at the half, led largely by Cohen, who had 16 points in the opening frame after going 8-8 from the charity stripe in the first half.
 
Lindner was big for Milwaukee in the third. The sophomore was nearly unstoppable, netting 14 of her team-high 20 points in the third stanza, helping the Panthers to a 59-52 after 30 minutes.
 
But, in a grind-it-out fourth quarter, the Titans were able work their way back, largely in part to getting to the free-throw line.
 
The two teams had seven lead changes in the final four minutes, alone. Alexis Lindstrom hit a cold-blooded three with 1:06 remaining to give UWM a 76-75 lead. But, Detroit was able to score the final five points of the game, with yet another Cohen free throw sealing the deal with 1.7 seconds left in the game.
 
The Panthers won the rebounding battle, 40-39, and turned the ball over a season-low nine times while forcing 15 Detroit turnovers.
 
UDM outshot UWM, 47.3-36.7, and went 23-26 from the free-throw line, compared to the Panthers' 11-11.
 
Milwaukee will now wait until Saturday when they play again in the Horizon League Tournament semifinal at 5:30 from Green Bay's Kress Center. The first two rounds kick off Thursday, with UWM playing the winner of the 7:30 p.m. game on Friday.
 
 
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