{"id":53534,"date":"2017-03-01T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=53534"},"modified":"2017-03-01T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:39:59","slug":"depaul-women-prevail-despite-season-long-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/depaul-women-prevail-despite-season-long-adversity\/","title":{"rendered":"DePaul women prevail despite season-long adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Allie Burger<\/strong><\/p>\n

For DePaul women\u2019s basketball, Wednesday morning was more than celebration. It was affirmation that this year\u2019s team has overcome adversity.<\/p>\n

The program won five of the seven major regular season Big East awards\u2014a tribute to the well-rounded success of the roster. But the group that played the minutes, that built the team\u2019s current record, looks very different from the roster that Doug Bruno had planned to take the court back in early fall.<\/p>\n

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DePaul lost three of their starters to injury by the early part of conference play. They lost their top scorer, steals leader and playmaker. But still, they managed to go 16-2 in the Big East. They ended their season as the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. Plus, they\u2019re poised for an NCAA berth, currently ranked 18 in the Associated Press Top 25.<\/p>\n

\u201cLosing all those people was definitely hard,\u201d Jacqui Grant said. \u201cBut, the coaching staff has done a great job of keeping us together and making sure that we can still do this. We are a no excuses team. That is what our model has been this year. We\u2019ve had some big blows, but we\u2019re doing pretty well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the major losses was pre-season player of the year Jessica January. January, a guard, had surgery on a broken index finger earlier this season and was out for nearly two months.<\/p>\n

\u201cA major aspect of production was taken from us,\u201d coach Doug Bruno said. \u201cThe fact that this group has been able to continue to succeed without them is really kind of what this season\u2019s story is evolving into at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schulte has been one of the players to step up for the team this season\u2014a situation that Bruno said may have pushed her to be the player he knew she could be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thrilled that she\u2019s showing the world how good she really is,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cWhy hasn\u2019t that come sooner? Probably, I\u2019m learning through time here that Brooke\u2019s \u2026 got a scorer\u2019s ability with a service mentality. It\u2019s kind of interesting to watch her feel like she has to do this, so she\u2019s doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s doing it. And she\u2019s leading with players like Grant, Meri Bennett-Swanson and January from the bench while rehabbing.<\/p>\n

January won Big East player of the week in her first weekend back, beginning on Feb. 24 with wins against Villanova and Georgetown. Her relationship with the game when she stepped back onto the court was not the same as when she last left it in late December.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a really difficult and frustrating time,\u201d January said. \u201cI think having my teammates and my coaches in my ear all the time, and just being surrounded by so many good people, I\u2019ve been able to keep a steady mind and still have such a passion for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

January rejoins a team who\u2019s stepped up in her absence to keep their early goals of winning the Big East tournament and making the NCAA tournament alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve done a good job of coming together and everybody saying, \u2018We\u2019re going to be in this together. We\u2019re still going to win games.\u2019 We\u2019re not going to back down now and say, \u2018Oh, poor us that we\u2019ve had injuries.\u2019 We\u2019re still a great team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruno believes that this squad can continue to win games throughout the post-season. In his 31 years of coaching the DePaul women\u2019s team, he has made it to 21 NCAA tournaments and four Sweet 16s. This year\u2019s group has the potential to go as far, if not farther, if they continue to improve as they have been throughout the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a lot of great room for improvement with our basketball team,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cWe teach our players to learn from victory, but to not settle or be seduced to false beliefs of self \u2026 that\u2019s the dynamic that has to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

January is preparing to play in her fourth NCAA tournament this March. She also believes that this group can make it farther than the last three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have faced so much adversity this year it doesn\u2019t even make any sense,\u201d January said. \u201cThe resilience we\u2019ve shown, I think, is something that\u2019s going to carry over to the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: DePaul enters Big East tournament No. 1 seed despite season-long adversity. (Allie Burger\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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