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1/8/2019 4:15:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Women's Basketball Squares Off with MAAC Rival in Thursday Matinee
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY BOBCATS (7-6, 2-0 MAAC) vs. Marist Red Foxes (10-4, MAAC)
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HAMDEN, Conn. - After outscoring its last two opponents by a combined 90 points, the Quinnipiac women's basketball team visits MAAC rival Marist for a Thursday afternoon matchup that will be broadcast live on ESPNU. The contest, the first of two meetings this season, is scheduled to begin at 12:00 PM.
LAST TIME OUT - QUINNIPIAC - W, 90-45 vs Saint Peter's
Brittany Martin led the Bobcats with 19 points and knocked down five three pointers. Six different Bobcats tallied double-digit point totals on the way to the commanding win. The Quinnipiac defense was strong all day, recording 21 steals and forcing 33 turnovers. The 90-point output makes 2018-19 the sixth straight season that the Bobcats have recored 90+ points in a game. The Bobcats held an opponent to four points in a quarter for the third time this season, and second consecutive game.
LAST TIME OUT - MARIST - W, 71-66 at Canisius
Alana Gilmer posted 22 points and six rebounds, while Rebekah Hand and Grace Vander Weide added 13 and 12 points, respectively. This win mark's Gilmer's fifth 20-point game of the season. This marked the 13th time in 15 years the Red Foxes have swept the Buffalo road trip, with a record of 28-2 vs. Canisius and Niagara for this trip since 2005.
THE SERIES
Tricia Fabbri's squad is 10-4 all-time against Marist, including 9-4 since joining the MAAC in 2013-14. Marist won all three meeting in 2013-14, including the MAAC Championship game, but the Bobcats have won the last six meetings and nine of the last 10 overall.
THAT'S MORE LIKE IT
The Bobcats recorded season-highs in points (90), field goals made (35), three-point % (50.0), assists (23), rebounds (44), and steals (21) against Saint Peter's on Sunday. This comes just three days after setting then season-highs in points (81), field goals made (31), field goal % (50.8), three-point % (47.6), and assists (20) against Fairfield on Thursday.
MORE FOR MCCLURE
With her first of three assists against UCF, Aryn McClure became the first Bobcat of all-time to record 1,000 points, 600 rebounds, and 300 assists (Queenie Edwards & Erin Kerner). She also recorded her 700th career rebound in the contest. The senior was named the MAAC Player of the Week and the College Sports Madness Player of the Week.
R-P.. R-P-I
According to the official NCAA RPI, the Bobcats finished the non-conference portion of the schedule at 71st on the RPI list and played the 24th toughest schedule in the nation.
RUNNING AWAY WITH IT
The victory over Saint Peter's is Quinnipiac's seventh win of 40+ points since the beginning of the 2015-16 season. The win is also the 101st conference victory (regular season and playoffs) since the Bobcats joined the conference in 2013-14.
HERD YOU!
Taylor Herd's five three-pointers against Fairfield were the most in her three-year career and the most by a Bobcat since Carly Fabbri hit five against Fairfield on February 2, 2018. Brittany Martin matched that total with a career-high five triples against Saint Peter's on Sunday.
'TIS THE SEASON OF GIVING
Jen Fay ranks inside the top 75 nationally in assist-turnover ratio. Her 2.10 mark is the best among all MAAC players.
LOW TURNOVER RATE
Quinnipiac ranks 53rd in the nation in least turnovers per game (14.3) and 15th in turnover margin (+6.00). The team's six turnovers against Missouri on November 24 were the team's least in a non-conference game since joining the Division I ranks. The team's 71 total turnovers through six games was also the lowest six-game total to start a season in Quinnipiac's Division I history. The team is 37th nationally with 186 turnovers overall.
LOCK 'EM CATS
The Bobcats rank 22nd in the country and first in the MAAC in scoring defense (55.5 opp ppg). Quinnipiac allowed just 11 points (four in the first quarter) to Richmond in the first half of last month's contest. It was the lowest point total in a quarter and half for any Bobcat opponent since Marist scored 10 points in the half and one in a quarter on February 23, 2017. Since that contest, the Bobcats defense has played two additional 4-point quarters (Fairfield & Saint Peter's).
MAAC-TO-BACK
Quinnipiac enters the 2018-19 season as four-time defending MAAC regular season champions, earning the top record in conference play at 18-0 last year. Quinnipiac has dominated the league since joining in 2013-14, going 101-14 in conference play (including postseason).
LEADER OF THE PACK
Head coach Tricia Fabbri enters her 24th season leading the Bobcats in 2018-19, as the five-time Coach of the Year (third in five MAAC seasons) and all-time winningest coach in program history has totaled 414 career victories, thus far. Fabbri's Bobcats have reached the 20- win plateau in seven straight seasons, won four conference titles in the last six seasons and earned four consecutive MAAC Regular Season titles. She is on the verge of cracking the top 50 on the list active DI coaching victories.
MAAC WIN STREAK
After going unbeaten in conference play last season, Quinnipiac currently holds a streak of 33 consecutive MAAC victories The Bobcats' current streak is two games short of Marist's all-time mark of 35 straight MAAC victories (including postseason play).
GOTTA LOVE THAT HOME COOKIN'
Quinnipiac's extended home dominance is particularly impressive when looking at games against MAAC opponents, as the Bobcats stand with a mark of 48-4 (.923) at home in league games since joining the conference in 2013-14. That prominence is only magnified when looking a since 2014-15, as the Bobcats are 42-1 (.977) at the People's United Center in conference games, with the only loss coming three years ago to Manhattan. The Bobcats are currently riding a 29-game unbeaten streak in home games against MAAC foes.
WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES
Freshman Mackenzie DeWees scored 13 points against Central Michigan. Her points were the most by a Bobcats freshman since Vanessa Udoji scored 16 against Saint Peter's on Dec. 1, 2016.
TOUGH TO BEAT
Earlier this season, Princeton became just the sixth Quinnipiac opponent (173 opponents all-time) to be unbeaten in two or more all-time matchups with the Bobcats.
FREE FOR ALL
Brittany Martin went 9-9 from the free throw line in this season's win over Ball State, the third most free throws in a game without a miss in Quinnipiac history. The team knocked down its first 15 freebies of the game, finishing 21-23 (91.3%) from the stripe, the best percentage (with more than 12 attempts) since February 25, 2010 against Monmouth. She followed that performance with a 4-4 night at Harvard. 13 free throws in a row is the longest streak by a Bobcat since Taylor Herd made 10 in a row over the course of nine games last year.
ROAD WARRIORS
The game at Harvard marked the latest into the season the Bobcats have ever played a home opener, as the 2018-19 season began with seven straight games away from home. The seven-game road trip was the longest to start a season in Quinnipiac's Division I history.
FAY DAY
Fay scored the 1000th point of her career in this season's loss to Texas. The redshirt senior joined Aryn McClure as the two active Bobcats to reach the plateau. Classmate Paula Strautmane is 12 points shy of the mark after Sunday's game. If Strautmane reaches 1,000 points this season, she, Fay, and McClure would become the first trio of classmates to record 1,000 points in program history.
ANOTHER NATIONAL POSTSEASON APPEARANCE
Quinnipiac's fourth trip to the NCAA Tournament last year marked the seventh straight national postseason appearance for the Bobcats and the eighth in program history. Quinnipiac earned its first national postseason appearance with a trip to Iona in the 2008 WNIT Tournament and then made a second WNIT Tournament appearance in 2012 against Temple. The first NCAA Tournament berth came in 2013 as the Bobcats earned a No. 13 seed to play at No. 4 Maryland. Quinnipiac also took home the 2015 MAAC Championship, claiming a No. 12 seed and facing No. 5 Oklahoma. In the 2014 and 2016 postseason, the Bobcats advanced to the WNIT, defeating Maine, 90- 44, in 2016 for the program's first-ever postseason win.
FIRST NATIONALLY RANKED WINS COME AT RIGHT TIME
The Bobcats are 2-15 all-time against nationally-ranked competition and own an all-time mark of 10-39 against teams in high-major conferences (ACC, BIG EAST, Big 12, B1G, Pac-12 and SEC). After going 0-for-9 in their first nine games against ranked foes, Quinnipiac won two straight games against nationally-ranked opponents in the 2017 NCAA Tournament before bowing out to the eventual NCAA Champions South Carolina (last year's non-conference schedule included losses to nationally-ranked Missouri and Ohio State). Quinnipiac had its first ranked win in an NCAA First Round victory over a Marquette squad that came in ranked No. 25 in the USA Today Coaches' Poll and followed that up with a road triumph over No. 16 Miami. The Bobcats' six other wins over high-major foes have come against Alabama, Minnesota, St. John's (NY), Syracuse and Providence (four times, including this season on Nov. 15).
HITTING THAT MAGIC NUMBER
Quinnipiac's 28 wins last season marked yet another 20- win campaign for Head Coach Tricia Fabbri in 2017-18. The 12th 20-win season in program history made it seven in-a-row as well as the ninth in Fabbri's 23-year coaching career at Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac is one of just 20 teams across the nation and one of six mid-major programs to record seven straight 20+ win seasons. Over those last seven complete seasons, Quinnipiac has compiled a record of 186-52 for a .782 win percentage which ranks as the tenth-best overall mark in the nation.
THE ULTIMATE CLOSERS
Quinnipiac has enjoyed a great deal of success over the past four seasons when building a first half lead. After starting 2016-17 with a mark of 2-0 when owning a halftime lead, the Bobcats recently saw one of their most impressive streaks in program history come to an end in a 71-68 loss at Temple. The undefeated streak, which lasted over the course of three seasons, came to an end at 45 straight wins for the Bobcats when holding a halftime lead. Quinnipiac went undefeated in both 2014-15 (24-0) and 2015-16 (19-0) and for the first two games of 2016-17 before suffering the defeat. Overall, however, the Bobcats went 22-2 in the 2016-17 season and 19-0 in 2017- 18 to give Quinnipiac a mark of 87-2 since the start of 2014-15 in games in which Quinnipiac leads at the half.
THAT 70s SCORING SHOW
Since the 2007-08 season, Quinnipiac is 156-15 (.912) in games where the Bobcats score 70 or more points, including 80-2 (.976) combined since 2014-15. During 2017-18 (20-0), 2016-17 (16-0), 2012-13 (18-0) and 2010-11 (8-0), the Bobcats compiled undefeated records in each respective season when reaching the 70-point scoring plateau. Quinnipiac has improved its current win streak in those contests to 48 in a row (the last defeat was in overtime to FGCU in 2015-16 - the last regulation loss was to Oklahoma in the 2015 NCAA Tournament).
NEXT UP
Quinnipiac returns home to host the Monmouth University Hawks on Saturday, January 12 for a 2:00 PM tip-off.
