Furman at CofC Gamenotes
12/22/2008 5:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
? The Cougars face a Furman team that is 5-5 overall and 1-2 in the Southern Conference and is coming off a 75-66 win against Appalachian State ... the Paladins are led by Lee Stephens with her 14.9 points a game ... Katie Johnson leads in rebounds with 5.7 a game ...
? Charleston returns home for the first of four straight in the Carolina First Arena, where the Cougars are 3-0 so far this season ... Furman leads the series 22-9 with both teams picking up the home win last season ... Charleston fell 63-55 in the last meeting between the two teams ...
? The Cougars are coming off a 80-68 loss at Western Carolina ... Charleston led by 13 at half, but a 22-9 run by the Catamounts to open the second half erased that lead ... Tonia Gerty led the Cougars with 18 points ... Emily Clarke paced WCU with 21 points ...
? 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 19-1 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 ...
