By: Alex Patt
River Forest, Il. As usual, the final round of CIT weekend started off with the women’s championship game. The final matchup was between Concordia Nebraska and Concordia Wisconsin; a preview for the men’s championship matchup.
The first half was back and forth as the teams traded points for the most point, as the score was 29-28 in favor of Nebraska at half time. The first half of the third quarter was the same way, both teams traded points until 3:47 mark when Nebraska went on an 11-3 run to close out the third quarter.
Nebraska then closed out the game, outscoring Concordia Wisconsin 23-10 to win the CIT women’s championship by a final of 75-53.
What was really impressive about Nebraska was the fact that they never let their foot off the gas pedal and kept playing good basketball despite being up in the 4th quarter. They shot 60.7% in the second half while Wisconsin only shot 28.6%. Nebraska scored 46 points in the second half, just seven points less than Wisconsin’s total.
While Nebraska had three shooters score more than 12 points, no one on Wisconsin scored over 11 points. The game’s leading scorer was Nebraska’s Quinn Wragge who scored 20 points and shot 63%. The top scorer for Wisconsin was Megan Coenen with 11 points.
This is a three-peat for Nebraska’s women’s team, and their 18th title since 1996. Not too shabby.
