CofC at Davidson Game Notes
1/11/2009 5:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
? The Cougars travel to Davidson in the second of a three-game road trip ... The Wildcats are 8-8 overall and a perfect 7-0 in the Southern Conference, having just picked up the 65-54 win against Georgia Southern Saturday ... Mercedes Robinson leads the team with 14.1 points and 10.1 rebounds per game ... Davidson is currently riding a four-game winning streak ...
? The Cougars are coming off a 64-53 win at Appalachian State Saturday ... after trailing by seven (31-24) at the half, Charleston shot 68.4 percent in the second to come back and take win ... Deidra Jones led the Cougars in the game with a career-high 20 points ...
? Tonia Gerty leads the Cougars with 11.5 points a game ... Brooke Kotcella follows with 10.9 ... Sarah Moye paces the team in rebounds with 7.5 a game ... Nikki Williams follows closely with 7.2 ...
? Davidson holds the 20-4 record over the College of Charleston and has won the last 13 meetings in a row ... In the last meeting, Charleston led 35-29 at the half but were outscored 42-20 in the second and fell to the Wildcats 71-55 Mar. 1, 2008 at Belk Arena ...
? Brooke Kotcella scored a career-high 24 points against the USC Aiken Pacers Dec. 31, in part to a six-for-nine effort from beyond the three-point arc ... the six three-pointers tied a CofC Division I single-game record ...
? Despite the 4-3 record on the road, the Cougars have been putting up impressive numbers ... they outscore their opponents 491-469 and have a better shooting percentage (42.4-28.5) ... CofC also outrebounds the home teams 40.4-36.9 and had a better three-poiint field goal percentage (38.2-32.7) ...
? 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 ... Williams has 546 career rebounds and needs 25 to move in to the top five at CofC ... Moye's 540 career boards is just 31 away ...
? Jade Hughes recently moved into the top five in career assists at CofC with her 262 ... with eight against the Mountaineers, she surpassed Rachel King for fifth ... Hughes is just 12 from moving into fourth all-time ...
? Charleston has found success from the perimeter this season ... should the 35.4 percentage hold for the season, it would rank first in the CofC Division I record books ... same goes for its 72.1 freet hrow percentage ...
? As of the Jan. 4th rankings Brooke Kotcella leads the nation in three-point field goal percentage with a 52.7 percentage ... she is also 54th in three-point field goals per game ... as a team the Cougars are 14th in three-point field goal percentage (38.1) and 55th in rebounding margin (5.7) ...
? In the league stats, the Cougars as a team are showing up in the tops in some categories ... as of Jan. 6 the Cougars are third in scoring offense and fifth in scoring defense ... Charleston is second in three-point field goal percentage and third in field goal percentage ... CofC is also fifth in rebounds and second in assists ...
? Individually, Charleston is also making its mark in the league rankings ... Tonia Gerty is sixth in scoring, while Brooke Kotcella is eighth ... Jade Hughes is 24th in the league and Nikki Williams is 27th ... Sarah Moye is sixth and Nikki Williams is seventh in rebounds, while Jade Hughes is second in assists, Tonia Gerty, fourth ... Brooke Kotcella leads the SoCon in three-point field goal percentage, while Nikki Williams is third ... Sarah Moye leads the league in offensive rebounds, while Nikki Williams is fifth in dfensive rebounds ...
? The Cougars have found success the last two seasons with holding the lead in the closing minutes of the game ... Charleston is 23-0 when leading at the five minute mark, including a 14-0 record last season ... Charleston is 21-1 over the last two years when leading with 15 minutes remaining ...
? Head Coach Nancy Wilson is getting close to a milestone ... with 490 wins, she needs just 10 to reach 500 career wins ...
? Charleston just needs to score to win ... In six of the Cougars' nine wins this season, they have scored over 70 points ... CofC is 5-0 this season when it holds its opponent to under 60 points ...
? The Cougars are off to their best home record so far this season ... Charleston is 5-1 at the Carolina First Arena ... should the Cougars win the remaining home games, they would hold a 13-1 mark, the best since the team went 10-1 the 1989-90 season ...
? Nancy Wilson is in her 14th season as head coach of the Cougars, but only her sixth since the 1983-84 season ... During her eight seasons the 1981-82 SCAIAW Coach-of-the-Year took the team to five consecutive 20+ winning seasons, which included three AIAW National Championship appearances ... After her first stint with Charleston, Wilson went to South Carolina, where she took the Gamecocks to five NCAA tournaments, including the “Sweet 16” in 1989-90, in her 13 years at the helm ...
? For the third time this season, the Cougars held an opponent to under 30 percent shooting. ... Appalachian State shot just 29.2 percent from the field Jan. 10th ... CofC is now 25-0 when holding opponents to under 30 percent since joining the league in 1998.
? The Cougars finished November with a 4-1 record ... it tied for their best November record ... Charleston went 4-1 as well in 2001-02 ...
? All games are being broadcast this year at CofCSports.com ... Home games feature audio as well as video, while road games feature just audio broadcasts ... To access the video and/or audio of the games users go to www.CofCSports.com and under the “Inside the Pride” logo on the right click ?subscribe' ... After subscribing to CofCSports.com users can access the schedule of events by clicking the link ?Live Events' listed in the menu on the left.
? Cougar fans will hear new voices calling all the women's basketball action this year ... Dane Arlauckas and Erica Adamson will provide play-by-play and color commentary during home games, while Arlauckas will call the action on most road contests ...
