Samford at CofC Game Notes
1/3/2009 5:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
? The Cougars take on a Samford team that is 8-3 overall and 3-1 in the Southern Conference ... the Bulldogs are riding a two-game winning streak after having defeated UNC Greensboro, 44-41, in their last game ... Savannah Hill leads Samford with 12.4 points and 5.4 rebounds per game ... Emily London follows with 11.4 ...
Charleston is in the third game of its four-game home stand ... the Cougars are coming off an 80-71 win against the USC Aiken Pacers Dec. 31 ... leading CofC is Brooke Kotcella with 12.5 points per game ... Brooke Kotcella follows with 11.3 ... Nikki Williams' 7.6 rebounds per game paces the team as well ...
? Brooke Kotcella scored a career-high 24 points against the Pacers, in part to a six-for-nine effort from beyond the three-poitn arc ... the six three-pointers tied a CofC Division I single-game record ...
? Samford has won the only two meetings between the two schools ... both schools were Trans America Athletic Conference (now Atlantic Sun) members then ... the Bulldogs took the 72-60 win Jan. 29, 1998 at the John Kresse Arena in the last meeting ...
? Since Charleston moved to Division I, the Cougars have only faced one other team from the state of Alabama ... Charleston defeated Troy, 93-86, Feb. 16, 1998, the same season CofC faced Samford ...
? 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 ... these rankings are current as of Dec. 22 ...
? 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 22-0 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 489 wins, she needs just 11 to reach 500 career wins ...
? Charleston just needs to score to win ... In six of the Cougars' eight wins this season, they have scored over 70 points ...
