Women's Basketball Drops Home Opener To Syracuse, 85-84 In Overtime

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In a pre-game ceremony, Old Dominion University women's basketball retired former Lady Monarch Clarisse Machanguana's jersey number 33.

NORFOLK, Va. (Nov. 17) -- Paula Moore's jumper with five seconds left liftedSyracuse Universityto a 85-84 double-overtime victory over 18th ranked Old Dominion UniversityFriday night. Syracuseis now 1-0, Old Dominion drops to 0-2. The loss in the fieldhouse was thefirst since Tennesseedefeated the Lady Monarchs in the 1998-99 season. This was also ODU's firstovertime game sincebeating Stanford in the 1997 NCAA semi-finals, and the first multi-overtimegame since beatingGeorge Mason in Fairfax in 1994.

Hamchetou Maiga (Bamakok, Maili) led the Lady Monarchs with 24 points.Okeisha Howard(Va. Beach, Va.) added 16 points and Tiffany Thompson (Clinton, Md.) scored13. Syracuse wasled by Beth Record and Leaf Newman with 24 points each. Record also hauledin a game highten rebounds..

Syracuse shot .444 (36-81) from the field, while Old Dominion was .391(27-69). Both teams committed15 turnovers and ODU outrebounded Syracuse, 48-45.

The Lady Monarchs return to action on Nov. 25 when they travel toChapel Hill, NC to play UNC.