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Delaware sense Elena Delle Donne broke free from Drexel's roasting defense in the second half and lifted the seventh-ranked Blue Hens to a 59-43 conquest over the Dragons on Sunday afternoon for their first Colonial Athletic Association championship.
The win gave the Blue Hens (30-1) one of the 31 routine bids to the NCAA women's basketball tournament that go to discussion champions. The rest of the 64-team field will be given at-large bids and the pairings will be exposed Monday at 8 p.m. on ESPN. Drexel (18-13), which made a Cinderella run late in the season to reach the CAA title game for the second time in four years, is not in line for one of the NCAA invites but will certainly get a call from the Women's NIT, which will set in motion Wednesday on campus sites.
St. Joseph's is also likely to get a call, as will place of worship, if the Owls don't land in the NCAA field for the ninth as the crow flies year. The Dragons had the potential to spiral an upset. Delaware escaped with a 40-39 victory at Drexel last month when Delle Donne hit an outside shot in the final seconds. But Dragons coach Denise Dillon had little console with her team in contention, sprawling by 20-16 at the half. "We just played a great team, and they show us why they are a top-10 team in the country and the best in the CAA," Dillon said afterward. "My anxiety was we were not scoring the ball. We were doing a great job defensively but not score at all. We got a few good, but they were not in the flow.
The win gave the Blue Hens (30-1) one of the 31 routine bids to the NCAA women's basketball tournament that go to discussion champions. The rest of the 64-team field will be given at-large bids and the pairings will be exposed Monday at 8 p.m. on ESPN. Drexel (18-13), which made a Cinderella run late in the season to reach the CAA title game for the second time in four years, is not in line for one of the NCAA invites but will certainly get a call from the Women's NIT, which will set in motion Wednesday on campus sites.
St. Joseph's is also likely to get a call, as will place of worship, if the Owls don't land in the NCAA field for the ninth as the crow flies year. The Dragons had the potential to spiral an upset. Delaware escaped with a 40-39 victory at Drexel last month when Delle Donne hit an outside shot in the final seconds. But Dragons coach Denise Dillon had little console with her team in contention, sprawling by 20-16 at the half. "We just played a great team, and they show us why they are a top-10 team in the country and the best in the CAA," Dillon said afterward. "My anxiety was we were not scoring the ball. We were doing a great job defensively but not score at all. We got a few good, but they were not in the flow.
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