HOUGHTON — Starting the season off with the D2 Midwest Region Tip-Off, the Michigan Tech Huskies women’s basketball team got off to a very strong start with wins over Lewis, 68-55, and Upper Iowa, 70-30. And yet, according to coach Sam Clayton, they could have been better.

“Feels good. I would much prefer to be 2-0 than any alternative, but mostly proud of how our team defended both games,” she said. “I thought we came out with defensive urgency. In all preseason, that’s been our point of emphasis, just focusing on the defensive side of the ball, outworking, outlasting opponents, focusing on one of our core values, which is grit. I think the defensive side of the game is so much about that. So I was mostly proud of how we defended well.

“To hold any team to 30 points, I think, is impress

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