Bahamas are No Island Paradise for UW Women, Who Lose 60-47

The Huskies have their season record evened at 2-2 with holiday setback to VCU.

Dan Raley | Nov 26, 2021

The Bahamas weere no holiday escape for the Washington women's basketball team, which let an early lead slip away and wound up a 60-47 loser to Virginia Commonwealth in the Goombay Splash on Bimini Island.

The Huskies (2-2) jumped out to an early 14-6 advantage and led 16-14 after the first quarter, but they fell victim to extra sloppy ball-handling and came up short on Thanksgiving Day.

Tina Langley's team coughed up the ball 17 times compared to just 6 miscues for VCU (3-1).

The UW used its decided height advantage in 6-foot-9 Nancy Mulkey, the Rice transfer, to cause problems early on. Mulkey, who led the Huskies with 13 points, had 7 points an 3 blocks by halftime.

Missy Peterson added 12 points and Haley Van Dyke chipped in 11.

However, VCU was leading 39-38 in the third quarter when it went on a 7-0 run to close out the quarter and the game never got closer again.

Taya Robinson, a 5-foot-10 senior guard and All-Atlantic-10 selection last year, and one of three Robinsons on the VCU roster who aren't related, topped the winners with 18 points.

The Huskies play another tournament game in the Bahamas against unbeaten North Carolina (4-0) on Saturday at 9 a.m. PT before returning home.

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Published Nov 26, 2021

DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.