Butler second-year head coach Austin Parkinson told Jim Flanery that he’s thinking about compiling Emma Ronsiek’s highlight reel against his team and sending it to WNBA organizations. The fourth-year forward was averaging 19.3 points per game on 61.5% shooting against Parkinson’s Bulldogs the last two seasons entering Sunday afternoon’s contest at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Those numbers only went further north after the game as Ronsiek put up a game-high 26 points to go along with nine rebounds, two assists, and two blocked shots on 10-of-15 shooting in 75-65 win for Creighton.
Ronsiek carved up Butler’s defense out of the mid-post to the tune of a game-high 25 points in an 89-53 win back on January 10. At Hinkle Fieldhouse on Sunday, the Bulldogs made it difficult for the South Dakota native to establish herself in that area of the floor, but she adjusted to the defensive coverage and found a way to score six points in each of the first three quarters along with eight in the fourth to finish off her eighth 20-point performance of the season.
“They definitely played us differently than they did the last game,” Ronsiek said. “We knew that they were going to do that because they were kind of…
