CofC at USC Aiken Game Notes
12/30/2008 5:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
? The Cougars face a USC Aiken team that is 7-2 overall, after having picked up the 74-54 win over Montevallo back on Dec. 13th ... the Pacers are ranked 18th in the NCAA Division II poll ... leading USC Aiken is Meredith Legg with her 12.7 points per game ... Megan Starnes follows with 12.4 ... Morgan Johnson paces the team in rebounds with seven a game ...
Charleston is in the second game of its four-game home stand ... the Cougars are coming off a 64-55 win against the Paladins of Furman Dec. 22 ... leading CofC is Tonia Gerty with 11.8 points per game ... Brooke Kotcella follows with 11.3 ... Sarah Moye's 8.0 rebounds paces the team ...
? Charleston holds a 19-1 advantage over USC Aiken in the 20 meetings ... the two teams have not faced each other since Feb. 1, 1990, with the Cougars taking a 67-45 decision ... this will be the first meeting since the Cougars became full NCAA Division I members ...
? 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 ... 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 21-0 when leading at the five minute mark, including a 14-0 record last season ... Charleston is 20-1 over the last two years when leading with 15 minutes remaining ...
? Head Coach Nancy Wilson is getting close to a milestone ... with 488 wins, she needs just 12 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 ...
