‘Park Ji-su Triple-Double’ Women’s Basketball KB’s 20th Win… 1st Place Confirmed, 7 Wins Left
Park Ji-su tied the league record with his 8th triple-double in his career
Cheongju KB, a women’s professional basketball team,
reached 20 wins this season and reduced the magic number for first place in the regular league to ‘7’.
KB won 85-77 in an away game against Yongin Samsung Life Insurance in the Woori Bank Woori WON 2023-2024 Women’s Professional Basketball Regular League held at Yongin Gymnasium in Gyeonggi-do on the 31st.
KB, which has recently won 9 straight games, recorded 20 wins and 2 losses, firmly maintaining its lead.
Cheongju KB has a 2.5 game gap with 2nd place Asan Woori Bank (17 wins, 4 losses),
and if KB wins 7 of the remaining 8 games, it can confirm first place in the regular league even if Woori Bank wins all of the remaining 9 games.
KB struggled until the first half of the day, losing 14 points to Samsung Life Insurance, 33-47.
However, in the third quarter alone, Kang I-seul and Heo Ye-eun kicked two 3-pointers each to catch up and ended the third quarter with a 64-62 lead. 사설 토토사이트
KB, which faced Samsung Life Insurance 66-66 until about 2 minutes after the start of the 4th quarter,
ran away to 70-66 with Park Ji-su’s consecutive points, and then Kang I-seul’s mid-range shot and Yeom Yun-ah’s two free throws tied the game at 1 minute and 52 minutes.
Seconds ago, they created an 8-point gap and decided the winner.
KB Jisoo Park achieved a triple-double with 24 points, 14 rebounds, and 10 assists.
Park Ji-su achieved his 8th triple-double in his career, tying with national team coach Jeong Seon-min’s league record of most triple-doubles (8).
Samsung Life Insurance Bae Hye-yoon also recorded her first career triple-double with 14 points,
11 rebounds, and 10 assists on this day, but the team loss was disappointing.
This is the first time there have been two triple-doubles in one game in women’s professional basketball.
However, on July 18, 2000, in the 2000 Summer League,
two games were held per day, and there were two triple-doubles in one day.
At that time, Shinsegae Jeong Seon-min (27 points, 12 rebounds, 12 assists) and Hyundai Jeon Joo-won (13 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists) achieved triple-doubles in different games.
Samsung Life Insurance, which maintained 3rd place with 10 wins and 12 losses,
had coach Ha Sang-yoon take over as acting coach due to Coach Lim Geun-bae being diagnosed with a novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).
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