Southern Illinoise University Athletics
Women's Basketball Concludes Road Swing at Missouri State
01/23/2016 | 12:00:00 | Women's Basketball
| Southern Illinois (11-7, 4-2 MVC) at Missouri State (12-7, 5-2 MVC) | |
| Date | Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 |
| Time | 7 p.m. CT |
| Location | Springfield, Mo. / JQH Arena (11,000) |
| Game Notes | Southern Illinois |
| Video | ESPN3 |
| Radio | Saluki All-Access |
| Live Stats | Game Tracker |
| Tickets | Buy Tickets |
| Media Guide | SIU Media Guide |
| Social Media | @SIU_WBasketball |
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The Salukis are set to conclude their current stretch on the road at Missouri State on Sunday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m., inside the JQH Arena. Fans can tune into WVZA 105.1 FM starting at 6:40 p.m. for game coverage, while the game can be viewed on ESPN3. The Salukis are looking to get back on track and pick up the program's first-ever victory at the JQH Arena.
FASTBREAK FACTS
- SIU has had at least two players in double figures in every single game this season.
- Three Salukis have double-figure season averages. Redshirt junior Rishonda Napier leads the team with 14.6 points per game, redshirt senior Dyana Pierre is averaging 13.9 and redshirt senior Cartaesha Macklin holds onto a 12.4 ppg average.
- Redshirt senior Dyana Pierre leads the Valley in rebounds and offensive rebounds per game, ranking seventh and second in the nation in those categories, respectively.
- Redshirt senior Cartaesha Macklin leads the Valley and the nation, in free throw percentage, shooting at a 92.7% (51-of-55) clip from the charity stripe. The Mayo, Fla., native has made 13 consecutive free throws over a four game stretch.
- Cartaesha Macklin not only became SIU's all-time leader in minutes played in the loss to Wichita State, but she surpassed LuAnn Robinson (Ill. St.) to move into 22nd on the MVC's all-time career assists list.
- Rishonda Napier passed Holly Teague for 18th on SIU's career assists list in the loss to Wichita State.
- Dyana Pierre averages 13.1 points and 11.6 rebounds per game in seven career meetings against the Lady Bears.
- Southern is looking for its first-ever win at the JQH Arena. The Salukis are 0-8 all-time on Missouri State's home floor, which opened prior to the 2008-09 season.
SERIES HISTORY
The Salukis and the Lady Bears meet for the 76th time in a series that dates back to the 1970-71 season. Southern trails the all-time series, 27-48 and come in having lost eight-straight, and 13 of its last 14 to the Lady Bears. SIU's last three wins over the Lady Bears have come at home, with the Salukis last winning at Missouri State during the 2006-07 season. Southern has never won at the JQH Arena.
LAST TIME
SIU 57, MISSOURI STATE 73
The Southern Illinois women's basketball team got down early against a ferocious Missouri State squad and was never able to recover, falling 73-57 to the Lady Bears at SIU Arena on Feb. 20, 2015. Dyana Pierre finished with 17 points and six rebounds to lead the Salukis.
RPI RANKINGS
According to Warrennolan.com, The Valley has four teams in the top-150 led by Drake (98) and followed by Missouri State (115), Northern Iowa (132) and SIU (136).
THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
Southern Illinois is one of just three programs in the nation with three 1,000-point scorers (Rishonda Napier, Dyana Pierre, Cartaesha Macklin) on the roster. SIU joins the defending national champion UConn Huskies and the 11th-ranked Oregon State Beavers as the only programs to have three 1,000-point scorers.
BUCKING THE TREND
Southern Illinois' win at both Drake and Northern Iowa early this year not only improved SIU to 9-5 for the first time since 1994-95 and gave it its first 2-0 start in Valley play since 2006-07, but it also snapped a couple of nasty streaks. First, the victory over the Bulldogs broke a nine-game losing streak at Drake dating back to Feb. 16, 2007 while the win at Northern Iowa was the first for the Salukis since Jan. 13, 2007. With the win over Bradley, Southern had its first 3-0 Valley start since the 1993-94 season.
THE STEIN EFFECT
Since Cindy Stein's arrival in Carbondale, the Salukis have taken better care of the basketball than previous SIU squads. In 2013-14, Stein's first season at the helm, the Salukis finished with more assists than turnovers in three games- which was as many times as SIU had accomplished that feat in the previous three seasons combined. The following season, the Salukis finished with a positive assist-to-turnover ratio 14 times, the most since the 2007-08 team that accomplished the task 12 times en route to a WNIT berth.
This season, the Salukis have finished with a positive assist-to-turnover ratio nine times in 18 contests, and did so in four-straight games for the first time since the 2007-08 season. The Salukis are 21-5 under Stein when recording more assists than turnovers.
HISTORY IN THE MAKING
With her four points against Evansville, Cartaesha Macklin passed Amy Rakers (1987-1991) to become SIU's all-time leading scorer. Rakers record stood for 25 years. In the loss to Wichita State, Macklin became SIU's all-time leader in minutes played with 3,589 and is one of just two Salukis to have played 3,500-plus minutes in a career.
1,000 POINTS-500 REBOUNDS CLUB
With eight rebounds in the win over Morehead State, Cartaesha Macklin became the 16th Saluki to score over 1000 points and grab 500 or more rebounds. Macklin is just the fourth to join the club since the 2001 season, with Dyana Pierre being the most recent member and also became the first Saluki to ever amass 1,500 points, 400 assists, and 500 rebounds in a career.
PIERRE ALL-TIME LEADING REBOUNDER
Sue Faber has some company. The 1983 SIU graduate, who scored 1,507 points and snagged 1,014 career rebounds has sat alone atop the all-time list as the top rebounder in Southern's history, as well as the lone member of the 1,000-point, 1,000-rebound club. Senior Dyana Pierre became the second Saluki to score 1,000 points and grab 1,000 rebounds with her 14 boards in the win over Morehead State, and with her seven boards in the victory over SEMO became Southern's all-time leading rebounder.
The redshirt senior forward is third all-time in Valley history. Pierre became just the sixth in Valley history, and the first since 2008, to amass 1,000 pts/1,000 rebounds, joining:
Jennifer Kackza (Wichita State)
Alex Cook (UNI)
Angela Buckner (Wichita State)
Jill Martin (Drake)
Wanda Ford (Drake)
Pierre is also one of just five active players in the 1,000 point/1,000 rebound club, along with:
Jillian Alleyne, Oregon
Joy Adams, Iona
Alisia Jenkins, South Florida
Ruvanna Campbell, Ill.-Chicago
PIERRE REBOUNDS IN BUNCHES
Dyana Pierre grabbed 15+ rebounds in three-straight contests, marking the fourth time a Saluki has had such a streak since 1976, and the third-time Pierre has done it. Amy Raker recorded 15+ rebounds in three-straight games from 11/23-11/30/90. Of the 80 games of 15+ rebounds in SIU history, Pierre's 24 account for more than a quarter of them. Pierre has recorded 15+ rebounds five times already this season- or as many 15+ rebound performances as there were for Southern from 2008 to 2012.
HAWKINS TO REDSHIRT
Head coach Cindy Stein announced that freshman Tiajaney Hawkins will require surgery on her injured shoulder, an injury she suffered against Memphis on Nov. 29, and will medically redshirt for the remainder of this season. Hawkins appeared in five games this season, averaging three points and one rebound.
MACKLIN MOVING ON UP
By playing against Wichita State on Friday, Cartaesha Macklin played her 116th career game, the seventh-most in SIU history. By playing in six of the Salukis remaining 13 regular season games, Macklin can become the Salukis all-time leader in games played.
TRIPLES GALORE
The Salukis made a season-high 13 3-pointers in their win over Evansville on Saturday, marking the third game this season that SIU has made 10 or more 3-pointers in a game. The 2015-16 season marks just the second time in the last 10 seasons, and third time in the last 20, that a SIU squad has made 10-plus 3's on three separate occasions, last accomplishing the feat during the 2009-10 season. No Saluki squad has ever made 10 3-pointers in four or more contests, and have only once (1994-95 season) made 10-plus in back-to-back games.
This season, the Salukis have made 121 treys with a robust 6.72 3-pointers per game average and are on pace to shatter the school record of 189 3-pointers set during the 2011-12 season. Southern already has the 13th most 3's in a season in program history.
3 SQUAD #BOOM
The Salukis drained 10 3-pointers in the win over Evansville, including a career-high tying six from Rishonda Napier. It marked the first time that Southern has made double-digits 3s since March 14, 2013 against Evansville, and Napier's six 3s were the fifth-most in a single game in program history.
Napier again tied a career-high with six three-pointers in the Dec. 19 win over Mercer, marking the second consecutive game in which she hit six triples. She is the first player in program history to hit six from beyond the arc in back-to-back contests and is the first Saluki since Teri Oliver in 2009-10 with five or more threes in back-to-back games.
The Burbank, Calif. native is fourth in the Valley in 3-point field goal percentage (37.6%) and second in 3-pointers per game (2.6). Southern is 9-1 this season when Napier makes 40% of her 3-point attempts and 5-0 when Napier shoots 50% or better from three.
ACTIVE AROUND THE RIM
The Salukis out-rebounded Morehead State, 63-to-45 in the win on Dec. 12. SIU finished one off the school-record, and it marks the eighth-most rebounds in a single game in Valley history. The +18 rebounding margin was the largest for SIU since the Salukis posted a +20 in a 76-71 overtime win over Murray State on Dec. 19, 2009.
10 of SIU's 11 wins this season have come in games in which Southern wins the rebounding battle, with the Salukis out-rebounding their opponent in a total of 14 of their 18 contests this season. The Dawgs are averaging 44.78 boards per contest, the 13th most per game in the NCAA, and have four players averaging five rebounds or more per game: Dyana Pierre (12.2), Kylie Giebelhausen (5.4), Cartaesha Macklin (5.2) and Kim Nebo (5.4).
The Salukis are currently 13th in the nation in offensive rebounds per game (17.0) and 20th in total rebounds (806) while Missouri State comes into Sunday's showdown averaging 40.68 rebounds per tilt.
CONTROLLING THE GLASS
The Salukis are 5-1 this season when grabbing 20+ offensive rebounds and 3-0 when corralling 20+ offensive and 30+ defensive boards.
LIGHTING UP THE SCOREBOARD
The Salukis broke a 31-year old school record with 102 points in the win over Morehead State on Dec. 12. The previous record was 101, set on March 5, 1984. It's just the fourth time that Southern has cracked the century mark, and the second time during the Cindy Stein era. The +33 point margin of victory was the largest for SIU since a +33 win over Wichita State on March 3, 2007. The Salukis also had seven score in double figures- the first time that has happened dating back to the 1978-79 season. CANT CHECK ME Rishonda Napier has only been held scoreless once in her career- in a 77-64 loss to Indiana State her freshman year.
CORRIGAN PROVIDES BENCH DEPTH
Carlie Corrigan became the 92nd Saluki to amass 200 points/100 rebounds with her nine points in the win over Evansville. Corrigan, who has been the Salukis' sixth-man this season and is a team captain, has played 15 or more minutes in 12 of SIU's 18 games.
NAPIER MAKING HISTORY
The redshirt junior from Burbank, Calif. joined an exclusive club in the win over Drake on Jan. 1. Napier became the 24th Saluki, and third on the active roster, to reach the 1,000-point plateau.
Napier is now one of eight active Valley student-athletes with 1,000 career points, joining teammates Cartaesha Macklin and Dyana Pierre, as well as Lizzy Wendell (Drake), Kenzie Williams (Missouri State), Sara Dickey (Evansville), Tyonna Snow (Missouri State) and Taylor Johnson (Loyola). Napier needs just 10 steals to reach 100 and become the 10th Saluki, joining teammate Cartaesha Macklin, to score 1,000 points, snag 200 rebounds, dish out 200 assists and tally 100 steals.
Dyana Pierre has an outside chance of joining Napier and Macklin in that club, needing three assists and 10 steals to do so.
MACKLIN CLEANING THE GLASS
58 times in her storied career, including nine times this season, Cartaesha Macklin has grabbed five or more rebounds in a single game, including nine boards in the win over SEMO on Dec. 22. The Salukis are 7-2 this season when Macklin grabs 5+ rebounds.
FEWEST FOULS
Southern leads the Valley, and is 13th in the nation in personal fouls per game- averaging just 14.3 fouls per game. The Salukis were whistled for just nine fouls in the win over Drake on Jan. 1. That's the fewest they've been called for this season, and marks the third time in the Cindy Stein era the Salukis have been called for single-digit fouls, last accomplishing the feat on Feb. 22, 2015 against Wichita State.
MACKLIN AT THE STRIPE
Cartaesha Macklin leads the Valley and the nation in free throw percentage, currently shooting at a 92.7% (51-of-55) clip. Macklin passed Molly McDowell (1999-03) for most free throws made in a career with her 368th make in the win over Murray State on Dec. 2 and is 16th on the Valley's all-time list.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Dyana Pierre notched her sixth-straight double-double in the loss to Wichita State on Friday, scoring 17 points and grabbing 10 boards. The six-game streak ties the longest such streak for the redshirt senior from Port St. Lucie, Fla., in her career, as she posted six-straight double-doubles last season. Pierre's 11 double-doubles this season are the most in the Valley and are the seventh-most in the nation, while her 48 career double-doubles rank second in MVC history. Pierre is currently averaging 13.9 points and 12.2 rebounds per game, and could become the first in the Valley since Wichita State's Antoinette Wells did so during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons to average a double-double in back-to-back seasons.
PIERRE RANKED NATIONALLY
Dyana Pierre leads the Valley in rebounds (207), rebounds per game (12.2) and offensive rebounds per game (5.0), and is currently top-10 in the nation in all three categories, including second in offensive rebounds. She ranks ninth in total rebounds and seventh in rebounds per game.
SALUKI RADIO NETWORK
The flagship station for Saluki women's basketball is WVZA 105.1 FM. Bryce Williams is in his fourth season as the full-time radio broadcaster for Saluki women's basketball. All audio from Saluki basketball games are available on SIUSalukis.com.
FOLLOW US
The official Twitter and Instagram of Saluki women's basketball is @SIU_WBasketball. This account features team news as well as live in-game updates. Fans can also follow Saluki Athletics @SIUSalukis for news on all SIU sports.
SALUKI NEWS ONLINE
SIUSalukis.com is the official website for SIU Athletics. It is the best source for up-to-date information on the Saluki women's basketball team. Rosters, box scores, cumulative statistics, pre-game notes and other materials are available on the site. You will need Adobe Acrobat to read PDF files.
