Women's Hoops Returns Home to Face Sacred Heart

Thursday, February 13

Hamden, Conn.

6:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

Sacred Heart

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Grace LaBarge and Karson Martin vs Rider (Dec. 19, 2024)

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2/12/2025 5:21:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Game #23: Quinnipiac Bobcats (19-3, 11-2 MAAC) vs Sacred Heart Pioneers (6-15, 2-10 MAAC)
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2025 | 6:00 PM
M&T Bank Arena | Hamden, Conn.
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All-Time vs. Sacred Heart: Sacred Heart leads the series, 17-12
Last Meeting vs. Sacred Heart: W, 78-63 (Dec. 21, 2024, in Fairfield, Conn.)

HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac women's basketball team returns home for the first time since Feb. 1 as they welcome the Sacred Heart Pioneers. Tip-off from M&T Bank Arena is slated for 6 PM and can be seen on ESPN+.

LAST TIME OUT

The Quinnipiac women's basketball team wrapped up their trip to Western New York with a 70-38 win over the Niagara Purple Eagles on Saturday.
Karson Martin led the scoring for the Bobcats, scoring 19 points on 62% (8-13) shooting from the floor and 3-for-3 from three-point range.
Anna Foley had herself a day on both ends of the floor, scoring ten points, dishing out eight assists, grabbing seven rebounds, and recording three steals and two blocks.
The Bobcats would defeat the Purple Eagles 70-38, their largest margin of victory over Niagara since 2019.

SCOUTING THE PIONEERS

Sacred Heart is led by head coach Jessica Mannetti, who holds a 176-172 record in her 12th season at Sacred Heart.
The Pioneers will enter Thursday's matchup with a 6-15 overall record and a 2-10 mark in conference play, sitting in twelfth in the MAAC.
Sacred Heart has lost their last three games and are coming off an 82-76 loss at the hands of the Fairfield Stags on Feb. 8th. Ny'Ceara Pryor led the Pioneers with 28 points.
The Pioneers are being outscored by their opponents, 1243-1380 (-137) so far this season.
As a team, the Pioneers are averaging 59.2 points per game on 37.0% shooting from the floor and 22.4% from beyond the arc.
Sacred Heart is holding teams to an average of 65.7 points per game and allowing their opponents to shoot 43.5% from the field.
The Pioneers average 35.8 rebounds per game with their opponents averaging 37.2 rebounds per game this season.
Ny'Ceara Pryor is the leading scorer for Sacred Heart this season, averaging 19.0 points per game in 21 games played.
Pryor is shooting 42.7% from the floor, 29.4% from three-point range, and 67.3% from the charity stripe.
Niagara currently sits in twelfth in the conference with a 2-10 record in the MAAC.

DIV. I HISTORY VS. SACRED HEART

Thursday's contest marks the 30th matchup between the two programs in their Division I history.
Quinnipiac is 12-17 against the Pioneers and are 8-6 on their home floor.
The Bobcats have won four straight contests against Sacred Heart dating back to Jan. 23, 2012.
QU defeated the Pioneers in their previous matchup this season, 78-63, on Dec. 21.
Ella O'Donnell came off the bench and dropped a new career-high 24 points on 8-for-11 shooting from the floor.

BOBCATS BY THE NUMBERS

THREE (3) - The Bobcats sit in third in the most recent World Exposure Report Mid-Major Poll.
EIGHT (8) - Jackie Grisdale ranks 8th in the NCAA in minutes per game with 36.94.
NINETEEN (19) - Quinnipiac is 19th in the NCAA with a winning percentage of 86.4.
TWENTY (20)- The Bobcats are currently ranked number 20 in the College Insider Mid-Major Top 25.
TWENTY-TWO (19) - QU sits 22nd nationally in turnovers per game with an average of 12.5.
TWENTY-FOUR (24) - Head Coach Tricia Fabbri currently sits in 24th place among active Division I coaches with 535 career wins.
FORTY-FOUR (44) - Quinnipiac is 44th in Division I in three-point percentage (34.9%).
EIGHTY-ONE (81) - Gal Raviv sits 81st in the NCAA with an average of 17.0 points per game.

RAVIV, MARTIN LEAD QU PAST CANISIUS

The Quinnipiac women's basketball team defeated the Canisius Golden Griffins, 56-41, on Thursday evening in Buffalo.
Gal Raviv scored 19 points on 54% shooting from the floor to lead the team.
Karson Martin was second on the team with 18 points on 50% shooting and knocked down two three-pointers.
Both teams had difficulty shooting in the opening quarter, but the Bobcats emerged from the first ten minutes with a 15-11 lead.
Quinnipiac came out strong in the second quarter, extending their lead to nine points and prompting Canisius to call a timeout.
The Bobcats and Golden Griffins exchanged baskets for the rest of the quarter, with QU heading into halftime with a 35-26 advantage.
The Bobcats generated three consecutive turnovers to start the second half and held a six-point lead at the media timeout.
QU finished the third quarter with a 10-3 run, entering the final quarter with a 49-36 advantage.
The Bobcats allowed just five points in the final frame to defeat the Canisius Golden Griffins 56-41.

QU COMPLETES SEASON SWEEP OF SIENA

The Quinnipiac women's basketball team returned home on Saturday as they defeated the Siena Saints 77-74 in Hamden.
Gal Raviv set a new career-high 32 points on 52.9% (9-17) shooting from the floor.
Raviv stuffed the stat sheet, recording eight assists, seven rebounds, and one steal.
Anna Foley and Grace LaBarge each reached double-digits, scoring 14 and 12, respectively.
The Bobcats and Saints traded points early on in this matchup as the two teams were even at 14 points apiece after the opening ten minutes.
After QU took a 40-33 lead with eight seconds left in the half, Siena's Myriam Traore knocked down a half-court buzzer beater to make it a four-point game at the half.
Siena tied the game up early in the third quarter, but the Bobcats responded as their lead stretched back up to eight at the end of the third quarter.
Quinnipiac would not allow Siena within five for much of the final quarter, but the Saints made it close at the end.
QU got a clean inbound to seal the 77-74 victory over the Saints.

RODE HOME WITH A WIN

The Quinnipiac women's basketball team got back in the win column as they defeated the Rider Broncs 66-53 on Saturday

afternoon in New Jersey.
Gal Raviv had another 20+ point performance, scoring 21 points on 6-for-14 (42.8%) shooting from the floor.
Anna Foley was second on the team with 13 points and grabbed a team-high seven rebounds.
Jackie Grisdale reached 12 points in the win. Seven different Bobcats scored points in the 13-point victory over the Broncs.
The Bobcats started on fire, shooting 50% in the opening quarter to open an 18-8 advantage after the first ten minutes.
The Bobcats continued to dominate in the second quarter, outscoring the Broncs 18-5 to take a 36-13 lead into halftime.
Quinnipiac's lead got as high as 23 before Rider cut it to 17 at the end of the third quarter. The Broncs outscored the Bobcats
19-13 in the third frame.
Rider got within eleven with 1:26 left in the final frame, but Quinnipiac wouldn't let them get any closer. Quinnipiac was able to hit their free-throws down the stretch to defeat Rider by thirteen.

FOLEY LEADS BOBCATS TO 8th STRAIGHT WIN

The Quinnipiac women's basketball program outscored the Iona Gaels 23-8 in the fourth quarter to come from behind and earn their 8th straight win.
Anna Foley led the team in scoring with 21 points on 53.8% (7-for-13) shooting from the floor.
Foley grabbed 12 rebounds to earn her sixth collegiate double-double.
Gal Raviv was second on the team with 17 points on 53.3% shooting from the floor.
Seven Bobcats recorded points to help the Bobcats improve to 14-1.
The Gaels started firing from three-point range in the opening quarter as they opened a 19-12 advantage after the first ten minutes.
The second quarter was a different story, with the Bobcats getting hot, outscoring the Gaels 19-10 to close out the half to take a 31-29 lead.
Iona came out of the locker room and caught fire again as they held a seven-point lead heading into the final quarter.
The Bobcats offense and defense came together in the final frame as they outscored the Gaels 23-8 in the final ten minutes to defeat the Gaels 66-58.

LEADER OF THE PACK

Head coach Tricia Fabbri is in her 30th season at the helm of the Bobcats in 2024-25.
A five-time Coach of the Year and all-time winningest coach in program history, Fabbri has totaled 535 career victories, thus far.
With the win over Mount St. Mary's on Feb. 16, 2023, Fabbri became the 90th coach in Div. I women's basketball history to reach 500 career wins and the 22nd to accomplish the feat at one institution without coaching at another.
Of her 535 wins, 520 have come in Quinnipiac's Div. I era.
With 20 wins in 2022-23, Fabbri secured the program's 12th straight winning season under her guidance.
Fabbri's Bobcats have reached the 20-win plateau in 12 seasons, including a run of eight straight seasons from 2011-2019.
With five NCAA Tournament appearances along with five WNIT berths, Fabbri has led QU to 10 postseason national tournaments in her tenure.
She has led Quinnipiac to five conference titles in the last 11 seasons and earned five consecutive MAAC Regular Season titles from 2015-2019.

JUST WIN BABY, WIN!!

M&T Bank Arena, home of the Quinnipiac Bobcats, has long been one of the most difficult arenas to play at in the country.
Since the 2012-13 season, Quinnipiac owns a record of 141-34 (.806) in games played at home.
In that same span, the Bobcats own a mark of 102-21 (.829) in conference play (NEC & MAAC) at home.
Quinnipiac owns a 154-74 (.675) mark since November 22, 2017.
The Bobcats stand with a mark of 92-21 (.814) at home in league games since joining the MAAC in 2013-14.
The Bobcats are 85-18 (.825) at M&T Bank Arena in conference games since the start of the 2014-15 campaign.

CLOSING TIME

Quinnipiac has enjoyed a great deal of success over the past five seasons when building a first-half lead.
After starting 2016-17 with a mark of 2-0 when owning a halftime lead, the Bobcats 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 throughout three seasons, came to an end at 46 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, the Bobcats own a mark of 183-18 (.910) since the start of 2014-15 in games in which Quinnipiac leads at the half.

FIRST YEAR OF FOLEY

Anna Foley did not disappoint in her first season in Hamden as she was named to the All-MAAC Second Team and All-MAAC Rookie Team last season.
Foley was the only member of the team last season to start in all 31 games.
She averaged 13.1 points, 7.1 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game as a first-year.
Foley led the team in total rebounds (220), rebounds per game (7.1), field goals made (160), and total points (406).
Anna scored a season-high 28 points against Manhattan on 57.9% shooting (2/17).

MORE FROM MARTIN

Karson Martin closed out her first season in a Bobcat uniform as she earned MAAC All-Rookie honors at the end of the regular season.
Martin appeared in 24 games, starting in 21 of those games.
She averaged 11.9 points and 3.1 rebounds per game over 31.7 minutes per game.
Martin ranked third on the team with 25 made three-pointers.
Martin scored a career-high 23 points against Canisius (1/18).
The Woodstock, Georgia native recorded her first collegiate double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds in the win against Marist (3/9).

LEADERSHIP GROUP

Head Coach Tricia Fabbri announced seniors Jackie Grisdale and Grace LaBarge as team captains for the 2024-25 season.
"We are thrilled to have these two young women be the bridge between coaches and players for this season," said head coach Tricia Fabbri.

BRAND NEW BOBCATS

Quinnipiac Head Coach Tricia Fabbri built on her returning foundation, bringing in five newcomers, including a class of four rookies.

CP IS IN CT

Caranda Perea comes to Quinnipiac after a season at the University of Tulsa.
Perea averaged 2.2 points and 1.6 rebounds per game in 34 games last season.
Prior to her time at the University of Tulsa, Perea spent two seasons at Temple (2021-23) and one season at George Washington (2020-21).
The Altoona, PA native scored over 1,000 points in her high school career and was named to the First Team All-District and All-Region Teams as a junior and senior.

GOT OUR GAL

Gal Raviv comes to Hamden after having played at Bella Vista College Prep in Arizona.
Raviv represented Team Israel at the FIBA U18 Women's EuroBasket and led the team with 17.3 points and 4.7 assists per game.
Raviv ranked fourth in the entire tournament in PPG (17.3) and ranked sixth in APG (4.7).
The Kadima, Israel native represented her country at the U16 FIBA Euro Championship while she was only 14 years old.
Named to the tournament's First 5 in the 2021 Girls U16 FIBA Euro Championship.

SHARPSHOOTING SIPLA

Reagan Sipla arrived at Quinnipiac after having played four seasons at St. Charles North High School in Illinois.
Sipla is the all-time leader in scoring for juniors in St. Charles North High School history.
Sipla also holds the St. Charles North High School record for most three-pointers made in a single season by juniors.
The St. Charles, Illinois native was a unanimous selection to the All-Conference team as a junior.

GO, GO, GRACIE

After a high school career at Waupun Area High School in Wisconsin, Gracie Gopalan has made her way to Hamden.
Gopalan is a true guard who broke Waupun's season assists record as a sophomore.
Gopalan is a two-time First Team All-Conference selection and a one-time Second Team All-Conference selection.
The Waupun, Wisconsin native brings the championship pedigree to Hamden after being a three-time ECC Conference Champion.

THE MAINE DEFENDER

The Saco, Maine native Emma Lizotte has made her way to Quinnipiac after four years at Thornton Academy.
Lizotte averaged 17.5 points, 10.3 rebounds, 3.0 blocks, 1.0 steals, and 1.0 assists per game in high school.
Lizotte is a two-time First Team All-Conference selection and a one-time All-Defensive team selection.
The 2022 Tournament MVP led her team to a 2022 State Championship at Thornton Academy.

CT IS HOME

Head Coach Tricia Fabbri announced the addition of Cur'Tiera Haywood '23 to the coaching staff as an assistant coach ahead of the 2024-25 season.
Haywood had a four-year career in Hamden as she earned multiple All-MAAC honors during her time as a Bobcat.
Haywood was named to the All-MAAC Rookie Team after averaging 4.1 points per game in 18.6 minutes per game in her first season.
In her senior season in Hamden, Haywood earned All-MAAC Third-Team Honors after averaging career highs of points (10.0 PPG), rebounds (5.2 RPG), and assists (1.2 APG) in 30 starts.
After a four-year stint in Hamden, Haywood transferred to Austin Peay in Clarksville, TN for her graduate season.
CT started all 33 games for the Governors while averaging 8.2 points per game, 3.6 rebounds per game, and 1.0 assists per game.
Haywood led the team in free-throw percentage (.794) and three-pointers made (38) while being one of two players to start every game.

PRESEASON NEWS

Quinnipiac women's basketball was tabbed tied for 3rd in the MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, as announced by the league office as part of the inaugural MAAC Basketball Tip-off held at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, NJ. on Tuesday, Oct. 8.
The Bobcats received 132 points in the preseason coaches' poll – finishing behind Fairfield (169) and Siena (136) and tying with Niagara.
Quinnipiac sophomore Anna Foley was named to the All-MAAC Second team after averaging 13.1 PPG, 7.1 RPG, and 3.1 APG last season.
Jackie Grisdale and Karson Martin were both named to the All-MAAC Third Team.

NEXT TIME OUT

Quinnipiac will be back on the road on Saturday, Feb. 15^th, as they take on the Iona Gaels.
Tip-off from Hynes Athletic Center is slated for 1 P.M. and can be seen on ESPN+.

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