CofC at WCU Game Notes
12/17/2008 5:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
? The Cougars face a Western Carolina team that is 4-5 overall and 1-1 in the Southern Conference after defeating the Wofford Terriers, 91-66, in action Tuesday night ... Brooke Johnson leads the Catamounts with 11.7 points a game ... Emily Clarke follows with 10.8 a game ... Johnson also paces Western in rebounds with 6.7 a game ...
? Charleston finishes up its three-game road trip with a 7:00 p.m. game at Western Carolina Dec. 19 ... Charleston split its last road games with a 70-55 loss at UNC Greensboro and then an 85-55 win at Elon ...
? The Cougars will return home for a four game homestand, after facing the Catamounts, that runs through the new year ...
? The Catamounts lead the series 21-10 and have won the last five meetings, including a 56-51 decision Feb. 24, 2008 at the John Kresse Arena ... Charleston has not won in Cullowhee since Jan. 14, 2002, when the Cougars took the 64-59 decision in the Ramsey Center ...
? Sarah Moye recently became the seventh player in CofC Division I history to join the 500-rebound club at CofC ... she did it with a two-rebound effort at Elon ... Nikki Williams pulled down five rebounds against S.C. State earlier this season to reach the 500 rebound plateau and became the sixth Cougar to do so ...
? Brooke Kotcella is almost perfect from the free throw line this season (17-of-18)... she currently ranks seventh in the nation in free throw percentage ... as a team the Cougars are 91st in scoring offense, 78th in field goal percentage defense, 52nd in rebound margin and 34th in three-point field goal percentage ... Charleston also ranks 38th in three-point field goal percentage defense ...
? In the league stats, the Cougars as a team are showing up in the tops in some categories ... they are third in scoring offense (69.1), fifth in scoring defense (63.1) and second in scoring margin (+6.0) ... they are also second in field goal percentage (.409) and field goal percentage defense (.366) ... Charleston leads the league in rebounds with 44.0 a game and their rebounding margin is second with +6.2 ... the Cougars are second in assists (14.3) and fifth in steals (8.0) ...
? Individually, Charleston is also making its mark in the league rankings ... Brook Kotcella is tied for ninth in scoring (11.0), while Tonia Gerty is 14th with 10.9 a game ... Nikki Williams and Sarah Moye are tied for third in rebounds per game (66 total) ... Jade Hughes and Gerty are tied for fourth in assists with 4.0 a game ... Kotcella is second in free throws, having gone 17-for-18 so far this season ...
? The Cougars have found success the last two seasons with holding the lead in the closing minutes of the game ... Charleston is 20-0 when leading at the five minute mark, including a 14-0 record last season ... Charleston is 19-0 over the last two years when leading with 15 minutes remaining ...
? Head Coach Nancy Wilson is getting close to a milestone ... with 487 wins, she needs just 13 to reach 500 career wins ...
? Charleston just needs to score to win ... In five of the Cougars' six wins this season, they have scored over 70 points ...
