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Saluki women's basketball hosts IUPUI Jaguars on Friday
12/20/2018 | 3:38:00 | Women's Basketball
SIU will put its four-game home win streak on the line Friday versus IUPUI
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The Southern Illinois University women's basketball hosts the IUPUI Jaguars for its final non-conference matchup of the season on Friday, Dec. 21 at 2 p.m. inside SIU Arena. The contest will also be streamed on ESPN+ and can be heard locally on Magic 95.1 FM.
Promotions
It's ugly sweater day at SIU Arena. Wear your ugly sweater and come cheer on the Salukis. The first 100 fans will receive an SIU ornament.
All-time vs. IUPUI
• Friday's meeting will mark the third all-time meeting between IUPUI and SIU and the first since 2011.
• The two programs have split the previous two meetings and the home team has been victorious in each contest.
• The Jags defeated the Salukis, 65-48 in Indianapolis on Dec. 10, 2010, while SIU returned the favor inside SIU Arena the following year, 77-63 behind 27 points from Cartaesha Macklin and 22 points from Teri Oliver.
Scouting the Jaguars
• IUPUI comes into Friday's contest sporting a 6-4 record, which includes wins at Ole Miss and against UT Martin.
• The Jags currently rank No. 44 in the latest RPI rankings, according to warrennolan.com. SIU, meanwhile, ranks 150th in the RPI rankings- up seven spots from last week after the win over Murray St.
• SIU will mark the third MVC opponent for IUPUI this season- the Jags defeated Indiana State but fell to UNI and are 11-7 against Valley opponents under coach Parkinson.
• The Jaguars set a DI record last season with 13 road wins.
• IUPUI was picked to finish second in the Horizon League Preseason Poll while Macee Williams was chosen as the league's Preseason Player of the Year.
• Williams finished with 27 points-16 rebounds in IUPUI's win over Ohio to earn Horizon League Player of the Week honors for the second time this season.
Last time they met
Dec. 8, 2011- SIU 77, IUPUI 63
• Southern trailed 10-7 with 14:01 left in the first half but outscored IUPUI, 31-10 over the final 14 minutes to build an 18-point lead at the half.
• SIU held IUPUI to just 20% from the field in the first half to build its double-digit lead.
• Macklin and Oliver combined for 31 of SIU's 38 first half points. Both finished with 20-plus points: Macklin (27), Oliver (22).
SIU vs. the Horizon League
• Southern holds an 11-12 all-time record against current Horizon League opponents.
• SIU's last win over a Horizon League school came on Nov. 18, 2000- a 57-40 win over the University of Illinois-Chicago.
• The Salukis last faced a Horizon League foe, Milwaukee, in the first round of the Women's Basketball Invitational during the 2016-17 season.
• Coach Stein is 4-4 against Horizon League teams in her career, including a 1-0 record against IUPUI.
Winning Non-Conference Record
• With SIU's 65-59 win over Murray State, the Salukis clinched a winning record in non-conference play for the fourth time in the last five seasons.
• Prior to Stein's arrival in 2013, SIU hadn't recorded a .500 or better record in non-conference play since 1997.
Compass Challenge Champs
• The Salukis defeated Eastern and Northern Illinois en route to being crowned the inaugural Compass Challenge champions.
• SIU shot a season-best 46.7% (14-of-30) from three-point range in the win over Northern- which were the most treys in a game in the Cindy Stein era and SIU's most since a January 5, 2013 win over Drake.
• Southern followed with a wire-to-wire win over Eastern to improve to 4-0 at home this season.
• Makenzie Silvey, who averaged 19.0 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists in SIU's two wins, was named Tournament MVP while Abby Brockmeyer and Kristen Nelson earned spots on the Compass Challenge All-Tournament Team.
• It marked the first mid-season tournament title for the Salukis since the 1986-87 team won the Dial Classic in San Diego, Calif.
Four-Straight Home Wins to open a season
• With SIU's wins over Northern and Eastern Illinois on Dec. 7-8, Southern improved to 4-0 at home this season.
• It marked SIU's first four game home-winning streak to open a season since the 1996-97 season.
• Southern won five-straight home games to open the '96-'97 season under Cindy Scott.
Taking care of the ball
• Brittney Patrick currently leads the Valley, and ranks ninth nationally, in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.47).
• Patrick's 5.9 assists per game also leads the MVC and ranks 22nd nationally while she also leads the league in total assists (59).
• Patrick is the first Saluki since Cartaesha Macklin in 2013 to record at least five assists in four-straight games. If she records five or more helpers versus IUPUI, Patrick will equal Brook Lemar's five-straight games with five-plus assists from 2011.
• During her four-game streak, Patrick has 29 assists to just four turnovers. Patrick has recorded at least five assists in 7 of SIU's 10 games this season.
More on Patrick
• SIU has only once had a player lead the league in assists per game (Cartaesha Macklin, 2013) and Patrick's 3.47 assist-to-turnover ratio would be a school record.
• Southern has only once had a player finish a season with a 2.0 or higher assist-to-turnover ratio- Rishonda Napier set a program record with 145 assists to just 67 turnovers (2.16) during the 2017 season.
• In fact, only 13 players from the Valley have finished with a 2.0 or higher assist-to-turnover ratio since the 2002-03 season.
Assist-to-Turnover Ratio in the MVC (since 2002)
2.90 - Kristi Cerone, Illinois State, 2007-08
2.89 - Madison Weekly, UNI - 2016-17
2.64 - Sharnae Lamar, UNI - 2015-16
2.60 - Kristi Cerone, Illinois State, 2008-09
2.38 - Caitlin Ingle, Drake - 2016-17
2.30 - Melanie Boeglin, Indiana St. - 2002-03
2.16 - Rishonda Napier, SIU - 2016-17
2.14 - Sammie Bachrodt, Drake - 2017-18
2.10 - Kristi Cerone, Illinois State - 2006-07
2.10 - Jen Brown, Bradley - 2005-06
2.10 - Melanie Boeglin, Indiana State - 2005-06
2.01 - Alex Harden, Wichita State - 2013-14
2.00 - Tiffany Hudson, Illinois State - 2007-08
Active Streaks
• Brittney Patrick has recorded at least one steal in nine-straight games. It's the longest such streak since Kylie Giebelhausen recorded at least one takeaway in nine-straight games from Dec. 19, 2017- Jan. 19, 2018.
• Makenzie Silvey has scored in double figures in four-straight games, and in nine of SIU's 10 games this season.
• Kristen Nelson has reached double figures in four-straight games- the longest streak of her career.
Sharp Shooting
• Kristen Nelson shot 80% (8-of-10) from the field in SIU's win over Murray State, including a perfect 4-of-4 from three-point range.
• Nelson's 80% from the field was the best by a Saluki with at least 10 attempts since Dyana Pierre made 14-of-14 attempts from the floor in SIU's win over Murray State on Dec. 16, 2014.
• Her 4-for-4 night from behind the arc was the best by a Saluki since Katerina Garcia also went 4-for-4 at Green Bay on Dec. 28, 2009.
Silvey's Streak
• Silvey has scored in double figures in 9 of SIU's first 10 games.
• She is just the fifth Saluki sophomore to score in double-digits in at least 9 of their first 10 games.
• Silvey joins Petra Jackson (1984), Nikki Gilmore (1994), Terica Hathaway (2000) and Rishonda Napier (2015) as the only sophomores to have at least that many double-digit scoring outputs in their first ten games.
This Day in Saluki WBB History | Dec. 21, 2007
• The Salukis won at Tennessee Tech, 87-69 in a game in which they led from nearly start to finish. Tennessee Tech led for the first :36 seconds of the contest, before Southern seized control.
• The Salukis led by nine at the half and pushed their advantage to 22 with under three minutes to play.
• Four of SIU's eight players scored in double figures, led by 20 points from Ellen Young. Erica Smith (18), Jayme Sweere (18) and Jasmine Gibson (17) joined Young in double figures.
Finding the open shooter
• The Salukis dished out a season-high 22 assists vs. Northern Illinois.
• It marked the 10th time that SIU has finished with 20-plus assists under coach Stein and SIU improved to 8-2 when doing so.
• SIU has recorded an assist on 65.2% of its shots this season- which ranks 29th nationally and second to Drake (76.6%) in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Bulldogs currently lead the nation in the category.
