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Nov 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/27/00
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Rachael Barbee scored 16 points and grabbed 14 rebounds yesterday,
while sister Heather added a bucket as the host Yeowomen beat
Pennsylvania's Thiel College to leave both Division III schools at 1-3
on the season. Nzinga Broussard hit a game-high 18 points for the 74-49
winners. From today's PD:

More shots coming in Broussard’s future

OBERLIN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PREVIEW

Monday, November 27, 2000

By BOB DOLGAN
PLAIN DEALER REPORTER

Nzinga Broussard could not have done much better last season.

The junior point guard on the Oberlin College women’s basketball team
was second in the North Coast Athletic Conference in scoring and assists
and also led the league in steals. She was a first-team All-NCAC
selection.

But Oberlin coach Ann Gilbert, dissatisfied with her team’s 6-10 NCAC
record last year, is conducting an experiment in which Broussard
switches from point guard to shooting guard.

It is a big gamble. Gilbert, however, knows basketball as well as
anyone. She led the nation in scoring with a 31.1-point average at
Oberlin 11 years ago and once pumped in 61 points in a game against
Allegheny. When she talks, you have to listen.

"Nzinga is not a natural point guard," Gilbert said. "She had the ball
all the time last year, and the other players tended to stand around and
watch.

"When she passed it, she wouldn’t get it back. We want Nzinga to be
the one who gets the ball at the end, not the one who gives it up."

Gilbert feels the 5-7 Broussard, who averaged 15.8 points last season,
will play even better when freed of the constraints of performing at the
point. "We’ll be a better transition team this year," the coach said.

The experiment’s success could depend on the play of freshmen point
guards Tessa Stevens and Amber Coleman (Maple Heights) and sophomore
Sonja Spencer. All three will get action at the position.

Malisha Richardson, a 5-10 sophomore from Shaw, is a big part of the
Oberlin game plan. "She can post people up, slash to the basket and
shoot from outside," Gilbert said. Richardson averaged 8.4 points as a
freshman last season.

The Yeowomen feature a couple of twin centers who could make opponents
see double.

Senior Rachael Barbee, 5-11, averaged seven rebounds and 7.7 points,
with a season-high of 18 against Earlham. She was sixth in the
conference in rebounds.

Heather Barbee is a strong defensive presence. She was second in the
NCAC in blocked shots last season, getting five rejections twice.
Heather grabbed 10 rebounds against Defiance and had a surprising
17-point outburst against Hiram. She averaged only 3.6 points per game
for the year.

"We won’t take the conference by storm," said Gilbert, whose team is
ranked around the middle of the league by coaches and media. "But our
time will come."

E-mail: bdo...@plaind.com

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