Southern Illinois University
University of Northern Iowa
Women's Basketball opens MVC Tournament against Northern Iowa
03/13/2019 | 2:04:00 | Women's Basketball
MOLINE, Ill. -- The Southern Illinois women's basketball team will take on the Northern Iowa Panthers at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 15 in the quarterfinals of the 2019 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. The two teams will play for the second time in 12 days and the third time overall this season.
All-Time Series vs. the Panthers
• The Salukis and the Panthers will meet for the 75th time Friday, with UNI holding a 40-34 advantage in the all-time series.
• UNI swept the regular season series.
• Southern's last win in the series came a year ago at home, when the Salukis rallied from a five-point fourth quarter deficit with 3:33 to play to knock off the Panthers in overtime, 60-53 on Jan. 5, 2018.
All-Time vs. the Panthers at the MVC tournament
• This will mark the third time that SIU and UNI have met this season, as well as the third time that the two programs have met in the conference tournament.
• Northern Iowa won the previous two meetings between the two schools at the conference tournament - a 59-50 win in St. Charles, Mo. on March 13, 2015, followed by a 67-43 win in Moline, Ill. in the MVC Tournament Semifinals on March 12, 2016.
Conference Tournament History
• The Salukis are 18-24 all-time in the conference tournament and last won it all in 1990, defeating Illinois State, 71-54 behind Tournament MVP Amy Rakers.
• Southern's win over Indiana State in the 2018 MVC Tournament quarterfinals marked the second time in three seasons that SIU has advanced to the MVC Tournament semifinals.
• SIU's last semifinal win came during the 1992-93 season when the Salukis defeated Creighton, 71-69 in overtime to advance to the championship game.
History as the No. 6 seed at MVC
• This will mark the first time that the Salukis have earned the sixth seed in the conference tournament dating back to 1987.
• It is the fifth-straight season that Southern has finished in the top-six to avoid having to play during the tournament's opening night.
Current Salukis vs. the Panthers
• Nicole Martin has scored in double figures in four of her six career games against the Panthers.
• Martin is averaging 14.2 points and 5.0 rebounds in six career games against UNI.
• Makenzie Silvey is averaging 13.5 points on 50.0% (20-of-40)shooting in four career games against Northern Iowa.
• Abby Brockmeyer had a double-double with 17 points and 13 boards the last time the two teams met. She is averaging 9.5 points and 8.3 rebounds in four career games against the Panthers.
Current Salukis at the MVC tournament
• Nicole Martin has scored in double figures in two of her three career games at the conference tourney. She comes into Friday's contest averaging 10.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 2.0 steals and 1.3 blocks in three career games at the MVC Tournament.
• Makenzie Silvey scored in double figures in both of SIU's MVC Tournament games a year ago- including 17 points against Drake in the MVC Tournament semis. She comes in averaging 14 points on 45% (10-of-22) shooting in conference tournament games.
• Abby Brockmeyer reached double figures in both of SIU's MVC tournament games a year ago and averaged 11.5 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.5 blocks.
Stripes getting Involved
• When the Salukis and the Panthers met at UNI on Feb. 1, the two teams combined for 49 fouls.
• The near constant barrage of whistles saw three of SIU's starters pick up two fouls within the first 12 minutes of play and six total Salukis went into the half with at least two fouls.
• Three Salukis fouled out and SIU was called for a season-high 30 fouls- the most called on the Salukis since Feb. 25, 2011
Former Assistant
• UNI head coach Tanya Warren was an assistant on Cindy Stein's coaching staff at Missouri, where the two coached together from 2001-04.
• During that stretch, the Tigers made the postseason all three seasons, including a trip to the NCAA Tournament during the 2003-04 season.
• Warren was 0-1 in her playing career against SIU while at Creighton, but has fared much better since taking the reins at UNI.
• Warren, the longest tenured coach in the MVC, holds an .807% winning percentage (21-5) against the Salukis.
• Four of SIU's five wins against Warren's Panthers have come during Stein's tenure as head coach.
• Warren holds an 9-5 all-time edge against her former boss dating back to Stein's days at Missouri.
Martin, Silvey named to All-MVC Teams
• Nicole Martin was named to the All-MVC First Team for the second-straight season while Makenzie Silvey was honored on the All-MVC Honorable Mention team for the first time in her career.
• Martin is the sixth Saluki to repeat as an All-MVC First Team selection, joining Dyana Pierre, Rishonda Napier, Dyana Pierre, Kasia McClendon and Nikki Gilmore as the only Salukis to accomplish the feat.
• It marked the sixth-straight season in which SIU has placed at least one on the All-MVC First Team.
• Silvey became the sixth Saluki in program history to go from the MVC All-Freshman Team to an all-conference team the following season. She joins Teri Oliver, Cartaesha Macklin, Rishonda Napier, Kylie Giebelhausen and Nicole Martin as the only Salukis to have done so.
Three Salukis named to MVC Scholar-Athlete Teams
• Abby Brockmeyer and Makenzie Silvey were named to the MVC Scholar-Athlete Second Team, while Nicole Martin earned MVC Scholar-Athlete Honorable Mention honors.
• SIU's three scholar-athlete honorees were tied with Northern Iowa and Drake for the most of any Valley school.
• It marked the third time in the last four years that Southern has placed three on MVC Scholar-Athlete teams.
• Southern has had at least one MVC Scholar-Athlete honoree in each of Coach Stein's six seasons as head coach and have had 12 earn MVC Scholar-Athlete honors during her tenure.
Martin reaches 1,000 career points
• Nicole Martin scored her 1,000th career point in the win over Indiana State and sits at 1,022 career points.
• She is the 26th Saluki in program history to reach 1,000 career points.
• She is just the eighth Saluki to reach 1,000 as a junior. She joins a prestigious list of former Salukis that includes: Dyana Pierre, Cartaesha Macklin, Rishonda Napier, Char Warring, Sue Faber, Amy Rakers and D.D. Plab.
• She joins Kerri Gasper (Evansville), Ellie Howell (UNI), Meredith Hamlet (Valparaiso), Becca Hittner (Drake), Maddy Dean (Drake), and Sara Rhine (Drake) as active Missouri Valley Conference players with 1,000 career points.
RPI
• The Missouri Valley Conference has six teams with Top-155 RPIs, according to warrennolan.com.
• Drake sits at No. 16, while Missouri State is No. 71. UNI is No. 89, while Illinois State (No. 140), SIU (No. 149) and Bradley (No. 151) are also in the Top-155.
Winning the Boards
• The Salukis have won the battle of the boards in six-straight games, their longest streak since Nov. 20, 2015 to Dec. 4, 2015 when Southern also won the rebounding battle in six-straight games.
• Southern has out-rebounded foes by an average of 13.3 rebounds during the stretch, which included a +19 rebounding margin against Indiana State on March 7.
• Two Salukis, Abby Brockmeyer (3rd, 8.1/game) and Nicole Martin (6th, 7.4/game) rank in the top-10 in the league in rebounding.
Mak Attack
• Makenzie Silvey has scored in double figures in nine-straight games, her third streak of five-plus games in double figures this season.
• 47.5% of Silvey's 416 points this season have come from behind the arc, as her 118 career three-pointers are already the seventh-most in school history, while her 66 treys this season are the second-most by a sophomore in program history.
• Her 66 threes are also second to Bradley's Gabi Haack (69) for most in the Valley this season.
• Silvey became the sixth Saluki to score 400 points during their sophomore season in the win over Evansville and the first since Rishonda Napier did so in 2015.
• The Glen Carbon, Ill. native is only six threes shy of the school record for most treys by a sophomore. Teri Oliver made 71 as a sophomore during the 2011 season.
Welcome Back
• Abby Brockmeyer made her third-straight start against Evansville and finished with eight points and eight boards.
• Her nine double-doubles this season are the third-most by a sophomore in school history and are the 17th-most in any season in program history.
• Against the UNI Panthers on March 3, Brockmeyer set career-bests in offensive rebounds (8), free throws made (13) and free throws attempted (16).
• Brockmeyer's 13 free throws made are the third-most in a game in program history and the most since Molly McDowell made a school record 17 freebies against Wichita State on Nov. 13, 2001.
• Her 16 free throw attempts, meanwhile, were the second-most in a game in school history and the most since McDowell's 19 attempts in 2001.
Holding Down the Point
• Brittney Patrick currently leads the Valley in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.2).
• Patrick's 5.1 assists per game also leads the MVC while she also leads the league in total assists (148).
• Patrick's 148 assists this season are the sixth-most in a single-season in program history. With three assists against the Panthers, she can crack the top-five in program history.
• SIU has only once had a player lead the league in assists per game (Cartaesha Macklin, 2013) and Patrick's 2.2 assist-to-turnover ratio would break Rishonda Napier's school record of 2.16.
• 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.
• Patrick became the 19th Saluki with 250 career assists after she dished out eight against Indiana St.
• Patrick has handed out five-plus assists in more than half (15-of-29) of SIU's games this season.
• SIU is 6-0 this season when Patrick dishes out eight or more assists.
Double-Doubles
• Nicole Martin recorded her seventh double-double of the season at Evansville, which is second on the team to Abby Brockmeyer's 9 double-doubles.
• It marks just the third time in program history (dating back to 1979) that two or more Salukis have had 6-plus double-doubles in the same season and the first time in four years.
• Sue Faber (11), Char Warring (8) and Connie Price (8) accomplished the feat first during the 1981-82 season while Dyana Pierre (16) and Azia Washington (6) most recently did so during the 2014-15 season.
