UNCG suffocated by Blue Hose zone

Ugoka led the way for Tech, racking up 12 points and 12 rebounds to record her fourth double-double of the year and the ninth of her career. Taijah Campbell also earned a double-double, pulling down 12 rebounds to go with her 10 points. Hannah Young also had 10 boards on the day.Keyonna Allen scored nine points to pace the Blue Hose.Presbyterian's Jordan Downing scored a career-high 37 points, including 10-for-10 from the free throw line in leading the Blue Hose to an 87-66 win over UNCG at the Greensboro Coliseum on Tuesday in the first-ever meeting between the two schools.Downing's scoring outburst — he was 11 of 15 from the field, and 5 of 6 from beyond the arc — was a Division I record for Presbyterian, which is playing in just its seventh season at that level, and came against a UNCG defense which had been limiting opponents to only 59.5 points per game prior to Tuesday's contest.

One member of the Blue Hose who was familiar with the coliseum and the Spartans was Presbyterian's Reggie Dillard, a Greensboro Day School product who is the team's second-leading scorer, averaging 13.6 points per game.Dillard chipped in 11 points and eight assists in Tuesday's victory, and his two first-half three-pointers helped spark Presbyterian's 19-6 game-opening run, which ultimately proved too much for the Spartans to overcome."To come back home and win here is an accomplishment," Dillard said. "I love coming back here. I have a big supporting cast and I played some games in the Martin Luther King Day Tournament at the coliseum when I was in high school."

UNCG's only lead of the game came at 3-0 on Nicholas Paulos' 3-pointer just nine seconds into the game.Paulos led the Spartans with 22 points on eight-of-14 shooting, including 6 of 12 from 3-point range, but that wasn't enough to help overcome UNCG's worst offensive output of the season.The Spartans had been averaging 80.4 points per game and 49.7 percent on field goals this season, but finished shooting just 35.3 percent from the floor against Presbyterian's stingy zone."We're not having a lot of success against the zone," UNCG coach Wes Miller said. "We didn't see one possession of man-to-man tonight."UNCG had been limiting opponents to just 48.1 percent field goal shooting, but the Spartans allowed the Blue Hose to shoot 62 percent from the floor on Tuesday.