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The Lambuth
University Women's Basketball team defeated TranSouth Athletic
Conference rival, Cumberland University 63-50 to win the first
NAIA title in program history at the 27th Annual NAIA Division
I Championship at Oman Arena.
It was
the first NAIA Division I Women's Basketball championship
game since 1988 in which both participants were playing in
the title game for the first time. Lambuth, fifth in the tournament
bracket, was the lowest-seeded champion since the NAIA implemented
bracketed quarters in 2003.
Lambuth
finished the season 27-9 overall and claimed the NAIA crown
after a four-year absence from the national tournament. Reggie
Maddox was named Tournament MVP and NAIA All-American.
For his
role in the team's success and his efforts to turn around
the struggling program, Coach Joe Reints was named the 2007
NAIA Women's Basketball DI Coach of the Year in his second
year as head coach.
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