Cal U falls to IUP in regional final, 68-60
By JEREMY SELLEW
jsellew@yourmvi.com
As the chants of “IUP, IUP” grew louder and louder, it was clear the Crimson Hawks had shaken the Cal U stigma off their shoulders for the season.
IUP used an 11-0 run from the end of the third quarter into the fourth to put just enough distance on the scoreboard to capture another NCAA Atlantic Regional Championship with a 68-60 win over Cal U at Glenville State’s Waco Arena.
“We knew coming in that we didn’t need to have an extraordinary effort to beat them,” IUP coach Tom McConnell said. “We knew we just had to come in here and be us and play IUP basketball.”
After two sub-par performances in a pair of earlier losses to the Vulcans, Carolyn Appleby dropped a game-high 24 points to lead the way for the Crimson Hawks. Twenty of those points came in the second half.
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