”We were trying to attack,” Moody said. ”We were in the bonus and we can make free throws.” Texas coach Karen Aston said her team created a problem it failed to overcome. View gallery Texas center Kelsey Lang (40) looks to shoot over Iowa State forward Madison Baier (34) and guard Se ”We lost by not having enough discipline to defend without fouling,” Aston said. ”Then when we got in the bonus we got tentative defensively.” TIP-INS Texas: In the earlier loss, the Longhorns missed 10 straight shots during a drought that allowed Iowa State to get back in the game. Iowa State: The Cyclones lead the nation in free-throw accuracy – 78.8 percent before Sunday – for the third straight season. No NCAA team in men’s or women’s basketball has led the nation for three straight full seasons. .
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It has recently seen only sporadic violence, but was previously hit by heavy combat on its outskirts, with a rebel assault in early September leading Kiev to repel the attack, but at a heavy cost. The fighting prompted President Petro Poroshenko to pursue a September truce left in tatters by the recent violence. View gallery People light candles and lay flowers during a rally in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on January Despite the rebels’ belligerence, it was not yet clear whether they were prepared to mount the kind of large-scale offensive necessary to take Mariupol. Analysts speculated that the rocket assault may have been meant to sow panic and degrade confidence in Ukraine’s government, or possibly distract Kiev’s military while rebels pursue their advance elsewhere. Oleksiy Melnyk of the Razumkov Centre think tank in Kiev said he believed the aim was “to break the morale of the Ukrainian authorities, so as to provoke social unrest or protests in frontline regions.” He alleged that, for Moscow and the rebels, “the purpose of the firing was to show Ukrainians that the military did not protect the population”. The potential danger is apparent. While Kiev’s retreat from the Donetsk airport was merely a symbolic loss since the site was in ruins after months of fighting, Mariupol’s surrender would be devastating. Oleksandr Sushko of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kiev pointed out that the city is the largest Ukrainian port on the Sea of Azov and home to two major steel plants.
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