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Gophers women's basketball: Going small yields big numbers

By Marcus R. Fuller

mfuller@pioneerpress.com

When Rachel Banham looked at the University of Minnesota women's basketball team's box score for Sunday's win against Towson, she had to do a double take at the three players with double-doubles.

The Gophers (5-2), who host Memphis (4-4) on Saturday at Williams Arena, played with a five-guard lineup in their last game, but they still managed to have Banham, Carlie Wagner and Shayne Mullaney all reach the 20-point, 10-rebound mark.

The crazy thing is all three of them are under 6-feet tall.

In fact, the tallest player in the starting lineup with five guards this season was Joanna Hedstrom, a 6-1 former high school point guard.