Southern Illinois University
Drake University
Women's Basketball hosts Northern Iowa for Senior Day
03/02/2019 | 5:09:00 | Women's Basketball
Three Salukis, Celina VanHyfte, Tianajey Hawkins and Kezia Martin will be honored after the game.
All-Time Series vs. the Panthers
• The Salukis and the Panthers will meet for the 74th time Sunday, with UNI holding a 39-34 advantage in the all-time series after winning the first matchup between the two teams on Feb. 1.
• The Salukis are 19-15 all-time against the Panthers on their home floor.
SIU has won two-straight and three of the last four meetings between the two teams at SIU Arena.
• Last season, Southern 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.
• With last season's home win over Northern Iowa, it marked Southern's second-straight home win over Northern Iowa, which was the first time since the 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons that the Salukis have posted back-to-back home wins over the Panthers.
Scouting the Panthers
• The Panthers are 17-9 overall and 10-4 in conference play. They come into Sunday's showdown having won two-straight, and four of their last five games.
• UNI is 7-6 on the road this season and 5-2 in conference road games.
• The Panthers rank first in the MVC, and 15th in the nation, in free throw percentage at 76.7%.
• Karli Rucker, the Panthers' leading scorer at 14.2 points per game, is averaging 6.6 points in 18.0 minutes per game in three career games against the Salukis. She scored 11 points to go along with six boards in UNI's win over SIU on Feb. 1.
Current Salukis vs. the Panthers
• Nicole Martin has scored in double figures in three of her five career games against the Panthers.
• Martin is averaging 13.4 points and 5.2 rebounds in five career games against UNI.
• Makenzie Silvey upped her career average against the Panthers with 20 points at UNI on Feb. 1. She's averaging 13.0 points on 48.2% shooting (14-of-29) shooting in three career games against Northern Iowa.
• Lauren Hartman came off the bench and added six points and six boards at UNI on Feb. 1.
Stripes getting Involved
• Last time that 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 .800% winning percentage (20-5) 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 8-5 all-time edge against her former boss dating back to Stein's days at Missouri.
Two-straight road wins
• The Salukis won back-to-back road games for the first time this season with wins at Loyola and Valparaiso last weekend.
Lighting it up from outside
• The Salukis drained 10 threes in the win over Loyola- its most in a game in over two months. Southern last sank 10-plus threes in the 82-73 win over Northern Illinois on Dec. 8, 2018.
• It marked the third time this season that SIU has made 10 or more threes in a game and the first time they have done so in Missouri Valley Conference play.
Leading the way
• Nicole Martin recorded her sixth double-double of the season, and eighth of her career, in the win at Loyola in a game in which she set new career-highs with 16 rebounds and 12 defensive boards.
• Martin inched closer to becoming the seventh-active Missouri Valley Conference player to join the 1,000 career points club.
• She sits at 966 career points and would become the 26th Saluki to reach 1,000 career points and just the ninth to do so during their junior season.
Shooters gonna shoot
• Makenzie Silvey scored a team-high 15 points to reach double figures for the sixth-straight game against Drake
• It marked the 23rd time this season, and 39th time in her career, that she has reached double figures.
• Her two three-pointers in the win kept her comfortably in seventh on SIU's all-time list and her 62 three-pointers this season are the third-most by a sophomore in program history. She needs just two more treys to move into the top-3.
• Silvey is 15 points shy of 700 for her career and currently has the 10th-most points (362) by a sophomore in program history. With 11 points over the weekend, Silvey will pass Nicole Martin (372) for 7th.
• Silvey's streak of 14-straight games with a steal came to end in the win over Valparaiso on Feb. 24.
