CofC at Wofford Game Notes
1/16/2009 5:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
? The Cougars travel to Wofford in the final game of its three-game road trip ... The Terriers are 3-12 overall and 1-6 in the Southern Conferernce after falling 70-48 to Georgia Southern this past Monday ... leading Wofford is Mahagony Williams with her 9.7 points and 7.0 rebounds per game ... the loss Monday snapped a two-game winning streak by the Terriers ...
? The Cougars are coming off a thrilling come-from-behind 74-71 win at Davidson Monday ... Down by one, Jade Hughes made a dramatic steal with 25 seconds remaining and connected on the game-winning lay-up to lead the Cougars to the victory ...
? Tonia Gerty leads the Cougars with 11.8 points per game ... Jade Hughes follows with 10.4, with Brook Kotcella third at 10.1 ... Sarah Moye paces the team in rebounds with 7.1 ... Nikki Williams follows with 7.0 a game ...
? Charleston leads the series over Wofford, 20-6 but both teams split the series 2-2 over the last four meetings ...
? 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 ...
? With a 5-3 record on the road, the Cougars have found success outside of the Carolina First Arena ... CofC has been putting up impressive numbers ... they outscore their opponents 565-540 and have a better shooting percentage (42.9-39.7) ... CofC also outrebounds the home teams 39.2-35.5 and had a better three-poiint field goal percentage (37.6-32.8) ...
? 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 550 career rebounds and needs 21 to move in to the top five at CofC ... Moye's 542 career boards is just 29 away ...
? Jade Hughes recently moved into the top five in career assists at CofC with her 265 ... with eight against the Mountaineers, she surpassed Rachel King for fifth ... Hughes is just 9 from moving into fourth all-time ...
? Charleston has found success from the perimeter this season ... should the 35.3 percentage hold for the season, it would rank first in the CofC Division I record books ... same goes for its 73.2 free throw percentage ...
? As of the Jan. 11th rankings Brooke Kotcella is fourth in the nation in three-point field goal percentage with a 49.2 percentage ... she is also 90th in three-point field goals per game ... as a team the Cougars are 45th in three-point field goal percentage (35.4) and 62nd in rebounding margin (4.9) ...
? In the league stats, the Cougars as a team are showing up in the tops in some categories ... as of Jan. 16 the Cougars are third in scoring offense (67.67) and fifth in scoring defense (64.0) ... Charleston is fourth in three-point field goal percentage (.353) and third in field goal percentage (.410) ... CofC is also fifth in rebounds (40.1) and second in rebound defense (35.5) .. Charleston is also second in assists (14.0) ...
? Individually, Charleston is also making its mark in the league rankings ... Tonia Gerty is inth in scoring (11.8), while Jade Hughes is 16th (10.4) ... Brooke Kotcella is 20th (10.1) in the league and Nikki Williams is 29th (9.0) ... Sarah Moye is sixth (7.1) and Nikki Williams is eighth (7.0) in rebounds, while Jade Hughes is second in assists (4.0), Tonia Gerty, fourth (3.6) ... Deidra Jones is second in the league in field goal percentage (.547) ... Brooke Kotcella is second (.492) in three-point field goal percentage, while Jade Hughes is 12th (.365) ... Sarah Moye is second in offensive rebounds (3.4), while Nikki Williams is fifth in defensive rebounds (5.0) ...
? 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 491 wins, she needs just nine to reach 500 career wins ...
? Charleston just needs to score to win ... In seven of the Cougars' 10 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 win over Davidson marked the first time since 2005-06 the Cougars had won when trailing at the two-minute mark ... the Cougars were 0-36 until Davidson ... Charleston trailed by one with two to go in that game ...
? 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 ...
