The celebration after the women's basketball team's 71-59 victory at Holy Cross became slightly subdued Tuesday night when guard Katina Mack emerged from the locker room.

Using crutches, the freshman made her way through the hallway, slumped on a couch and rested her freshly-wrapped right foot -- which literally took a turn for the worse during the Lady Lions' game with the Lady Crusaders.

With 5:30 remaining in the game and Penn State ahead 57-51, Mack pressured Holy Cross guard Anne Davis, man-to-man, at halfcourt. After being forced left, Davis cut quickly to the right, but Mack didn't follow.

"When I tried to go back the other way, (my foot) just turned on me," Mack said. "It just keeps popping on me and I can't do anything about it."

Mack remained at halfcourt on her hands and knees while play continued. After Susan Robinson fouled Lady Crusader Beth Godfrey to stop play, Mack was helped off the floor by Coach Rene Portland and trainer Chris Smalley.

After the game, Mack was taken to a local hospital for X-rays. Portland said she was unsure of the nature of Mack's foot injury.

Mack said she has experienced problems with her ankles for the last couple of practices and games, adding that the problems might be stemming from her Achilles' tendons, as well as the "pounding" she has given her feet.

"They've been taping them up and everything, but they just keep swelling and hurting and turning on me," Mack said.

Mack, who has played in all 25 games this season, entered Tuesday's game as the leading scorer off the bench, averaging 5.5 points per game. The Monticello, N.Y., native has played an average of 11 minutes per game and has scored in double figures six times.

A veritable speedster and tenacious defender, Mack was less than enthusiastic about hobbling around on her new crutches.

"I feel like I'm 40 at the moment," she said.

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The 529 spectators who attended Tuesday night's game at Holy Cross had the rare opportunity to see the human side of Robinson.

The Lady Lions' all-time career scoring leader was limited to a career-low four points on 2-for-11 shooting. Robinson struggled to find a shot in the first half, taking just four and finishing with a big zero in the scoring column.

Seventeen minutes elapsed in the second half before Robinson scored her first points of the game on a top-of-the-key jumper.

"Sometimes you just come out cold . . . and I did," Robinson said.

Whether she was in the lane or 18 feet out, the shots were all the same for the Center Point, W. Va., native -- blanks. Usually, the shots teased Robinson and rolled as far as they could in the cylinder before rolling out.

Making matters worse, Robinson couldn't move on the floor without running into a Lady Crusader defender -- most often, 5-foot-8-inch guard Meghan Sullivan.

"I've never seen (Robinson's) shirt out of her uniform as much as I've seen here at Holy Cross," Portland said.

The occasional off-night used to bother Robinson in the past, but no longer, she said.

"Last year, down the stretch, I had games when I didn't score and when I didn't shoot as well as I should," Robinson added. "I think I let that get to me at the end of the season. But my attitude about that has changed."