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Women's Basketball heads to IUPUI for Tuesday night tilt
11/11/2019 | 4:06:00 | Women's Basketball
Southern will try for its first 2-0 start since 2008.
The Southern Illinois women's basketball team heads to Indianapolis, Ind. to take on the IUPUI Jaguars on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. (ET). The Salukis are coming off an emphatic season-opening win that saw Southern reach triple-digits for just the sixth time in program history.
All-time vs. IUPUI
• Tuesday's meeting will mark the fourth all-time meeting between IUPUI and SIU and the second consecutive season in which the two programs have faced off. The home team has won in each of the three previous meetings.
* Southern took a 2-1 lead in the all-time series thanks to last year's 78-73 overtime win.
• 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.
• IUPUI made its fourth-straight trip to the WNIT a year ago.
Last time the two faced
* The Salukis pulled out a 78-73 overtime win over the Jaguars inside Banterra Center.
* Abby Brockmeyer knocked down a pair of clutch free throws to send the game to overtime. She finished with 25 points and 10 rebounds.
* Brittney Patrick added 12 points/5 rebounds/5 steals/4 assists while Kristen Nelson chipped in 14 points, including a momentum-shifting four-point play in overtime.
* The Salukis finished with a season-high 13 steals and forced the Jaguars to turn the ball over 25 times.
* The win was SIU's first over a Horizon League opponent since 2000.
SIU vs. the Horizon League
• Southern holds an 12-12 all-time record against current Horizon League opponents.
• Prior to last season's game against IUPUI, 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 5-4 against Horizon League teams in her career, including a 2-0 record against IUPUI.
Let's go 2-0
• After SIU's season-opening win over SIUE, Southern will look for its 2-0 start to a season since the 2008-09 season.
• Southern defeated St. Louis, 85-77, to open the season before hanging on to beat Arkansas State, 79-77, on Nov. 19, 2008. That also marked the last time that the Salukis have won back-to-back road games to open a season.
100-point games
* The Salukis improved to 6-0 when hitting the century mark for total points.
* Southern's 103 points in the win over SIUE were the second-most in a game in program history and were the most against a DI opponent in school history.
* It marked the first time since nearly three years ago (11/26/16) that the Salukis have reached triple-digits.
* Four of the six times in which Southern has scored 100 or more points have come under seventh-year head coach Cindy Stein.
vs. Western Illinois 101 2/16/85
vs. Indiana State 101 3/5/85
vs. Bradley (2OT) 100 1/2/04
vs. Morehead State 102 12/12/15
vs. Brescia (Ky.) 104 11/26/16
vs. SIUE 103 11/8/19
Getting out to a fast start
• Makenize Silvey notched her sixth career 20-plus point performance in the win over SIUE, as she scored 28 points on the strength of 6-of-9 (.667) shooting from behind the arc.
• Two of Silvey's six 20-point games have come on opening night. Last season against UT Martin, Silvey poured in a career-high 29 points with six treys. The junior guard nearly double her career scoring average (12.6) on opening nights in her career, as she is averaging 24.0 points per game in three season openers.
• Silvey's 28 points are the third-most in the Valley this season. Missouri State's Alexa Willard (30) and Loyola's Janae Gonzales (29) are the only players to have scored more.
• The Edwardsville, Ill. product is 17 points shy of 800 for her career. In doing so, she will become the 35th Saluki to score 800-plus points in a career.
Five in double figures
• Five Salukis scored in double figures in the win over SIUE- Makenzie Silvey (28), Abby Brockmeyer (16), Nicole Martin (15), Kristen Nelson (12) and Gabby Walker (10).
• It marks the first time since Jan. 25, 2019 at Valparaiso that the Salukis have had five reach double-digits.
Making their freebies
• The Salukis made 87.0% (20-for-23) of their free throws in the win over the Cougars Friday night.
• Its the best they have shot from the charity stripe since March 6, 2019 when Southern made 88.5% (23-of-26) of its attempts against UNI. Prior to that, it had been since Nov. 25, 2005 that Southern shot that well from the free throw line (mini. 20 attempts).
