Elon at CofC Notes
1/22/2009 5:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
? The Cougars host Elon in the first of three staight home games at the Carolina First Arena ... Charleston defeated the Phoenix, 85-55 in the first meeting earlier this season ... leading Elon is Urysla Cotton with her 9.5 points per game ... Amber Wall's pulls down an average of 8.1 rebounds per game to pace the team ...
? The Cougars are coming off their fifth win in a row with the 61-54 decision at Savannah State Wednesday ... it is the first five-game winning streak for Charleston since early in the 2003-04 season ... should CofC win Saturday, it would mark the first six-game winning streak since 1996-97 ...
? Two Cougars are averaging in double-figures to lead Charleston ... Tonia Gerty has 11.1 and Jade Hughes follows with 10.8 ... Brooke Kotcella is third with 9.9 a game ... Nikki Williams, who is fourth in scoring with 8.8 a game, leads the team in rebounds with 7.1 ...
? Charleston leads the series over Elon, 10-4 and have won the last three in a row and four out of the last five ... only four of the 14 games in the series have been decided by less that 10 points ... 10 of them have been decided by an average of 21 points, with the Cougars taking seven of them ...
? 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 7-3 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 690-651 and have a better shooting percentage (42.7-39.6) ... CofC also outrebounds the home teams 39.3-34.9 and has a better three-point field goal percentage (38.1-29.7) ...
? 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 561 career rebounds and needs 4 to move in to the top five at CofC ... Moye's 545 career boards is just 13 away ...
? Jade Hughes recently moved into the top five in career assists at CofC ... she is fourth with her 276 and is just 28 from moving into second ...
? Charleston has found success from the perimeter this season ... should the 34.8 percentage hold for the season, it would rank first in the CofC Division I record books ... same goes for its 73.4 free throw percentage ...
? As of the Jan. 18th rankings Jade Hughes is 83rd in the nation in free-throw percentage percentage with 81.8 ... as a team the Cougars are 51st in free throw percentage at 73.0 and 59th in rebounding margin at 4.9 ... Charleston is also 67th in three-point field goal percentage (34.5) and 63rd in win-loss percentage (70.6), as well as 69th in three-point field goal percentage defense (28.8) ...
? In the league stats, the Cougars as a team are showing up in the tops in some categories ... as of Jan. 21 the Cougars are third in scoring offense (66.3) and fifth in scoring defense (61.8) ... Charleston is fifith in three-point field goal percentage (.348) and fourth in field goal percentage (.407) ... CofC is also second in rebound defense (35.1) .. Charleston is also third in assists (13.4), fourth in steals (8.6) and second in three-point field goal percentage defense (.282) ...
? Individually, Charleston is also making its mark in the league rankings (since Jan. 21) ... Tonia Gerty is 11th in scoring (11.1), while Jade Hughes is 14th (10.8) ... Brooke Kotcella is 20th (9.9) ... Nikki Williams is eighth (7.1) in rebounds and Sarah Moye is 10th (6.8) ... Jade Hughes is second in assists (3.9), Tonia Gerty, fourth (3.4) ... Deidra Jones is second in the league in field goal percentage (.529) ... Brooke Kotcella is second (.459) in three-point field goal percentage, while Jade Hughes is 9th (.384) ... Sarah Moye is third in offensive rebounds (3.1), while Nikki Williams is fifth in defensive rebounds (5.2) ... in free throw percentage, Jade Hughes ranks fourth (.831) ...
? The Cougars have found success the last two seasons with holding the lead in the closing minutes of the game ... Charleston is 26-0 when leading at the five minute mark, including a 14-0 record last season ... Charleston is 24-1 over the last two years when leading with 15 minutes remaining ...
? Head Coach Nancy Wilson is getting close to a milestone ... with 494 career wins, she needs just six to reach 500 career wins ...
? Charleston just needs to score to win ... In eight of the Cougars' 11 wins this season, they have scored over 70 points ... CofC is 6-0 this season when it holds its opponent to under 60 points ... in only two games this season, the Cougars won and scored less than 60 points, a 51-49 win against Georgia State and a 52-42 decision against Georgia Southern ...
? 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 ...
