Southern Illinois University
Missouri State University
Salukis continue Valley play at Missouri State on Sunday
01/11/2019 | 9:28:00 | Women's Basketball
All-Time vs. Missouri State
• The Salukis and the Lady Bears meet for the 82nd time in a series that dates back to the 1970-71 season.
• Southern trails the all-time series, 29-52.
• The Salukis held the Lady Bears to 1-of-11 shooting in overtime on Jan. 26 to seal a 71-69 win on Jan. 26, 2018.
• SIU's last five wins over the Lady Bears have come at home, as Southern is seeking its first-ever win at the JQH Arena, which opened in 2008.
• The Salukis last win in Springfield came during the 2006-07 season when Missouri State played at the Hammons Student Center.
Current Salukis vs. the Lady Bears
• Makenzie Silvey is averaging 13.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists in two career games against the Lady Bears, including 18 points on the strength of 5-of-9 (55.6%) shooting from behind the arc last season at JQH Arena.
• Nicole Martin is averaging 8.0 points and 8.0 rebounds in four career meetings against Missouri State. She reached double figures in each of SIU's matchups with Missouri State last season, which included 12 points and nine boards in the win on Jan. 26, 2018.
• Brittney Patrick scored a career-high 15 points on 4-of-5 shooting and added five assists in SIU's 71-69 overtime win over Missouri State a year ago.
• Rachel Pudlowski set a career-best with six rebounds to go along with five points off the bench in last season's overtime win.
Last time they met
SIU 61, Missouri State 79 - Feb. 23, 2018
• The Salukis trailed by just five at the end of the first quarter but went ice cold from the floor in the second quarter, as they missed their first 14 shots of the period. Southern's offensive woes allowed Missouri State to build a comfortable 20-point advantage, 39-19, at the end of the first half.
• The Lady Bears attacked the Salukis down low from the jump, as nearly half (38-of-79) of Missouri State's 79 points came in the paint.
• Southern had difficulty getting the ball to its posts for most of the contest. SIU nearly had as many points in the paint in the fourth quarter (10) as it had in the previous three quarters combined (12).
• The Salukis also snagged a season-high 19 offensive rebounds but only scored 11 points off of second chance opportunities.
This Day in Saluki WBB History
Jan. 13, 2007
SIU 79, UNI 74
• All five Saluki starters scored in double figures as SIU pulled out a 79-74 win at UNI to improve to 5-1 in league play.
• Jayme Sweere led the Salukis with 18 points, three steals and two assists in 37 minutes of action.
• UNI cut the lead to three with five seconds left in regulation, but Southern made 5-of-6 key free throws down the final stretch to put the game out of reach, securing their first victory over the Panthers since 2002 and the first win in Cedar Falls since 1997.
Good while it lasted
• Indiana State snapped Southern's five-game winning streak after the Trees escaped SIU Arena with a 61-58 win on Jan. 6.
• Southern's five-straight wins was its longest win streak since the 2015-16 season.
• The school record for consecutive wins came during the 1985-86 season, when Southern rattled off 21-straight wins, including a perfect 18-0 slate in Gateway Conference games, en route to the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.
• The loss also snapped SIU's six-game home win streak to open the season, which was its first six-game home win streak to open a season since the 1993-94 season.
Nearly Perfect
• Nicole Martin made her first 11 attempts from the floor in the win over Evansville and finished 11-for-12.
• Martin's 91.7% shooting 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.
• Martin's 91.7% field goal percentage is tied for the fifth-best single game performance in NCAA DI this season.
More on Martin
• Averaged a league-best 24.5 points on 70.0% (21-for-30) shooting from the field, 9.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.5 steals in SIU's two MVC games.
• Opened MVC play with her fourth career double-double, as she poured in 23 points to go along with 12 rebounds, two assists and two steals in SIU's 67-47 win over Evansville.
• She followed with a career-high 26 points to go along with six rebounds, an assist, a steal and a block in a career-best 39 minutes against Indiana State on Jan. 6.
• The back-to-back 20-plus point outputs marked the second time that Martin has reached 20-plus points in consecutive games during her career.
• Has now reached double figures in 10 of SIU's 13 games this season.
• Martin is four points shy of 800 for her career.
Taking care of the ball
• Brittney Patrick currently leads the Valley, and ranks 8th nationally, in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.40).
• Patrick's 5.2 assists per game also leads the MVC while she also leads the league in total assists (68).
• Earlier this season, Patrick became the first Saluki since Cartaesha Macklin in 2013 to record at least five assists in four-straight games. During that streak, Patrick had 29 assists to just four turnovers.
More on Patrick
• SIU has only once had a player lead the league in assists per game (Cartaesha Macklin, 2013) and Patrick's 3.40 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.
• Southern has notched 10-plus steals in six games this season, including five-straight games.
• SIU's five-game streak of 10-plus steals in the longest since the 1994-95 team posted six-straight games with 10 or more takeaways.
• The Salukis are 5-1 this season when recording 10-plus steals and are 19-9 (.678) under Coach Cindy Stein when doing so.
• Brittney Patrick has recorded at least one steal in 12-straight games including seven-straight games with at least two steals.
Double-Doubles
• Abby Brockmeyer recorded her sixth double-double of the season with 25 points and 10 rebounds in SIU's 78-73 overtime win over IUPUI.
• Her six double-doubles this season are already the fourth-most in a sophomore season in school history and are tied for the most in the Valley thus far this season.
RPI
• The Missouri Valley Conference currently has five teams with top-150 RPIs, according to Warrennolan.com.
• Drake leads the way at No. 11. Northern Iowa moved up to No. 64, Indiana State is at No. 124, Missouri State is No. 142 and the Salukis are No. 149.
