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UD to host St. John’s in WNIT on Thursday

9:52 a.m., March 14, 2005--The University of Delaware will be the site of a first-round Women’s National Invitation Tournament game as the Fightin’ Blue Hens take on St. John’s University at 7 p.m., Thursday, at the Bob Carpenter Sports/Convocation Center

The 25-5 Hens will be making their third appearance in the postseason WNIT in the last four years.

Tickets for the March 17 game go on sale at 10 a.m., Tuesday, March 15, at both the Bob Carpenter Center and Trabant University Center box offices. Ticket prices are $9 for adults and $6 for UD students and children 17 and under. The first 100 UD students at the game will be admitted free of charge.

The Bob Carpenter Center box office will be open from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and the Trabant University Center box office will be open from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.. amd tickets will be on sale Tuesday and Wednesday and on Thursday until game time. Doors at The Bob will open at 5:30 p.m., Thursday.

UD women's basketball season ticket holders can contact the UD Season Ticket Office by phone or in-person from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., beginning Tuesday.

UD was left out of the NCAA Division I championship tournament after falling 78-74 in overtime to Old Dominion University in the Colonial Athletic Association title game on Saturday. The Hens had beaten Old Dominion in two regular season meetings.

UD is in good company, as several other strong teams were overlooked by the NCAA committee and will be vying for the WNIT title, among them 27-3 Gonzaga University, 19-11 Villanova University and the University of Iowa, which went 20-9 in the highly competitive Big 10 Conference.

St. John’s is a member of the Big East Conference and finished the season 19-10. Kia Wright, a 5-foot, 8-inch sophomore guard who is averaging 14.7 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, leads the Red Storm. Wright also has 102 assists and 62 steals.

Angela Clark, a 6-1 sophomore forward, is averaging 11.6 points per game and leads St. John’s with 8.4 rebounds per game. Tara Walker, a 5-9 junior guard, is averaging 10 points per game.

The teams have three common opponents. St. John’s defeated both Hofstra University and the University of North Carolina Wilmington in early season action, and lost twice to Georgetown University in Big East play. The Hens lost to Georgetown early in the season, and twice defeated both Hofstra and UNC Wilmington.

UD is led by CAA Player of the Year Tiara Malcom and Tiffany Young, both senior forwards.

The winner of Thursday’s game will meet the winner of the contest between the University of Maine and West Virginia University, which will be played Friday. Second-round sites will be determined after the first-round games.

On the other side of UD’s bracket are the University of North Carolina Charlotte, Wake Forest University, the University of Florida and the University of South Florida.

Editor's note: This article was updated at 7:20 p.m., March 14.

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