Article: Women 'couldn't finish' too many close games

Jim Jabir watched Saint Joseph's advance to the Atlantic 10 women's basketball tourney finals. That's the same squad Jabir's University of Dayton team defeated in the final month of the regular season.

"When we go and beat La Salle (in the tourney) and see St. Joe's in the championship game, it tells me we can play with good teams," Jabir said, summing up UD's 12-19 season, which ended with a second- round loss to the top seed, George Washington. "There were too many close games that we couldn't finish." Jabir hopes the season was a blip on the upward swing that saw the Flyers improve from a three- win team to 17 victories last season. In one stretch during its winter of discontent, UD ...

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