CofC at Samford Notes
2/7/2009 5:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
? The Cougars travel to Samford Feb. 7 for the second game of a three-game road trip ... Charleston is looking to avoid the series sweep ... the Cougars fell to the Bulldogs, 64-58, earlier this season at the Carolina First Arena ... Charleston has yet to defeat Samford and is 0-3 all-time ...
? Samford is 17-4 overall and 12-2 in the Southern Conference ... the Bulldogs had an 11-game winning streak snapped las Monday
with a 49-37 loss at UNC Greensboro ... Savannah Hill, who blistered the Cougars with 26 points in the last meeting, leads the Bulldogs with 13.2 points per game and 5.8 rebounds per game ... Emily London follows with 12.2 poitns per game ...
? The Cougars are coming off their ninth win in a row with the 64-53 decision over Furman this past Tuesday ... it is the first nine-game winning streak for Charleston in NCAA Division I history
... Charleston won seven in row from Jan. 23 - Feb. 11 during the 1988-89 season ... The Cougars also earned their 17th win of the season, surpassing the Division I mark for most wins by CofC in a season ... Charleston last won 16 games in 1989-90, the first year of CofC's recassification from NAIA to NCAA ... the 10 league wins ties the record for the Cougars in most SoCon wins in a season ...
? Two Cougars are averaging in double-figures to lead Charleston
... Tonia Gerty leads with 12.1 points per game, while Jade Hughes follows with her 11.0 ... Brooke Kotcella is close behind with 9.5 a game ... Sarah Moye leads the team in rebounds with 6.8 a game, while Nikki Williams is second with 6.7 ...
? 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 an 8-3 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 754 - 704 and have a better shooting percentage (42.1 - 39.6) ... CofC also outrebounds the home teams 39.5 - 34.4 and has a better three-point field goal percentage (39.2 - 31.1) ... Charleston has won its last five games in a row on the road
? Charleston owns a 9-2 mark at the Carolina First Arena ... it ties the Cougars' best record since going 9-2 in the 1991-92 season
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? 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 ... she has 586 so far this season ... Williams just recently moved into the top five ... Moye's 585 career boards is sixth ...
? Jade Hughes recently moved into the top five in career assists at CofC ... she is third with her 288 and is just 16 from moving into second ...
? Charleston has found success from the perimeter this season ... should the 36.5 percentage hold for the season, it would rank first in the CofC Division I record books for three-point field goal percentage ... same goes for its 72.8 free throw percentage ...
? As of the Feb. 1st rankings the Cougars are 85th in scoring margin (6.2), 42nd in free throw percentage at 73.4 and 57th in rebounding margin at 4.6 ... Charleston is also 37th in three-point field goal percentage (35.9) and 65th in three-pointers per game (6.2) ...Charleston is also 39th in win-loss percentage (76.2), as well as 29th in three-point field goal percentage defense (27.7) ...
? In the league stats, the Cougars as a team are showing up in the tops in some categories ... as of Jan. 31 the Cougars are third in scoring offense (66.3) and fourth in scoring defense (60.1) ... Charleston is third in scoring margin (+6.2) and fourth in free throw percentage (.734), as well as fourth in field goal percentage
(.404) ... the Cougars are second in three-point field goal percentage (.359) and second in three-point field goal percentage defense (.277), fourth in rebounding offense (40.5) and second in rebounding defense (35.9) ... Charleston is second in rebounding margin (+4.6), second in offensive rebounds (14.7) and fourth in steals (8.8) ... the Cougars are also third in three-pointers made (6.1), third in turnover margin (+1.2) and fourth in assist/turnover ratio (0.8) ...
? Individually, Charleston is also making its mark in the league rankings (since Jan. 31) ... Tonia Gerty is ninth in scoring (12.1), while Jade Hughes is 15th (10.8) ... Brooke Kotcella is 22nd (9.7) ... Nikki Williams is ninth (6.8) in rebounds and Sarah Moye is 10th (6.7) ... Deidra Jones is fifth in the league in field goal percentage (.482) ... Jade Hughes is third in assists (3.9), Tonia Gerty, fourth (3.6) ... in free throw percentage, Jade Hughes ranks third (.836) ... Tonia Gerty is 11th in steals (1.7) ... Brooke Kotcella is seventh (.432) in three-point field goal percentage, while Jade Hughes is ninth (.405) ... Brooke Kotcella is sixth in three-point field goals made (1.8), while Jade Hughes is eighth (1.6) ... Sarah Moye is tied for second in offensive rebounds (3.0), while Nikki Williams is seventh 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 28-0 when leading at the five minute mark, including a 14-0 record last season and this season ... Charleston is 28-1 over the last two years when leading with 15 minutes remaining ...
? Head Coach Nancy Wilson is getting close to a milestone ... with 498 career wins, she needs just two to reach 500 career wins ... she would be the 24th coach among active Division I coaches to reach the 500 win mark ...
? 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 ...
? Charleston just needs to score to win ... In 15 of the Cougars' 17 wins this season, they have scored over 60 points ... CofC is 12-0 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 ...
? For the fourth time this season, the Cougars held an opponent to under 30 percent shooting. ... Elon shot just 28.1 percent from the field Jan. 24 ... CofC is now 26-0 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 ...
