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Game Notes: Women's Basketball at Hoops in the Heartland
03/10/2021 | 4:17:00 | Women's Basketball
MOLINE, Ill. - The SIU women's basketball team opens the 2021 Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball tournament with a game at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday evening against Indiana State. The winner of the game advances to face top-seeded Missouri State at 11 a.m. on Friday.Â
Conference Tournament History
• The Salukis are 18-25 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 was the last time that SIU 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.
All-Time vs. the Sycamores
• The Salukis and the Sycamores meet for the 99th time in a series that dates back to the 1968-69 season.Â
• SIU has won 12 of the last 14 meetings and leads the all-time series 52-46.
• Southern swept the regular season series with an average margin of victory in the two wins of 19.5 points.
All-Time vs. the Sycamores in the MVC Tournament
• SIU and ISU are 3-2 all-time when meeting in the MVC Tournament, with the Salukis winning the most recent meeting in 2018 after it erased an 18-point deficit to down the Sycamores, 69-67.
• The two teams met as the No. 8 and No. 9 seeds once, in 2010, a 73-57 Indiana St. win.
• The average margin of victory in the previous five meetings between the two programs at the conference tournament: 8.4 points.
1995 - No. 3 SIU 86, No. 6 Indiana St. 78
1997 - No. 5 SIU 59, No. 4 Indiana St. 58
2010 - No. 8 Indiana St 73, No. 9 SIU 57
2011 - No. 7 Indiana St. 83, No. 10 SIU 68
2018 - No. 4 SIU 69, No. 5 Indiana St. 67
History as the 8th Seed
• Southern will be the 8th seed in the upcoming MVC Tournament.Â
• It will mark the fifth time in program history, and first time since 2008-09, that Southern will be the eighth seed at the conference tournament.
• SIU is 0-4 all-time as the eighth seed at the conference tournament. Note: The MVC went to a 10-team tournament in 2006. Prior to that, the eighth seed faced the No. 1 seed in the first round of the eight team tournament. Two of SIU's four appearances as the eighth seed, 2006 and 2009, came during the current 10-team tournament era.
• The eighth-seed has twice won the MVC tournament. In 2005, Illinois State won three-straight games to punch its ticket to the big dance. Two years later, Drake won four-straight tournament games, which included a 65-64 overtime win over sixth-seeded Creighton Blue Jays in the MVC Championship game.
• The eighth-seed is 6-8 all-time against the ninth-seed since the MVC Tournament went to a 10-team field in 2006.
Beating the same team three times
• The Salukis will try to beat Indiana State for the third time this season after having swept the season series from the Sycamores with a pair of wins at the Hulman Center earlier this season.Â
• Southern has beat an opponent three times in a single-season seven times in school history, which are listed below:
1986-87- Bradley: 3-0
1986-87 - Eastern Illinois: 3-0
1989-90 - Bradley: 3-0
1991-92 - Illinois State 3-0
1992-93 - Illinois State 3-0
1995-96 - Wichita State 3-0
2017-18 - Indiana State 3-0
Last time they met:Â
• The Salukis completed the season sweep of Indiana State on Feb. 20, as the Salukis pulled away in the second half to defeat the Sycamores, 76-52.
• The back-to-back road wins in Terre Haute were Southern's first road wins of the 2020-21 season. The Salukis did so with a rotation of eight players, many of whom played 30-plus minutes the night before.Â
• The Salukis tied their season-high with 10 3-pointers on 52.6-percent shooting and dished out 22 assists on 30 made field goals.Â
• SIU also shot 55.6-percent (30-of-54) from the field. The Salukis were plus-seven on the boards and every player who played significant minutes contributed at least three boards. Southern also forced 16 turnovers and came away with nine steals.
•Silvey averaged a robust 23.5 points on 55.6-percent (20-of-36) shooting, which including 50-percent (7-of-14) from behind the arc in the wins over the Sycamores to earn MVC Player of the Week honors.
Three on MVC Scholar-Athlete Teams
• Makenzie Silvey was named to the MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team for the second-straight season while Abby Brockmeyer earned a spot on the Second Team and Payton McCallister claimed Scholar-Athlete Honorable Mention honors.
• Silvey holds a 3.781 GPA as an accounting major. She earned her third-straight Scholar-Athlete team honor after she averaged 14.5 points, 2.8 assists in 33.2 minutes per game.Â
• Brockmeyer holds a 3.842 GPA as an accounting major. She also earned her third-straight Scholar-Athlete team honor despite having only played in 10 games this season due to injury
• McCallister's nod on the MVC Scholar-Athlete honorable mention team is the first of her career. She holds a 3.856 GPA as an electrical engineering major.Â
• Southern's three total honorees are the most of any Valley school.Â
• SIU has had at least one MVC Scholar-Athlete honoree in each of head coach Cindy Stein's eight seasons as head coach and have had 18 earn MVC Scholar-Athlete honors during her tenure.
• It marks the fifth time in the last six seasons that the Salukis have placed three on MVC Scholar-Athlete teams.
Silvey earns All-MVC First Team
•SIU senior guard Makenzie Silvey was named to the All-MVC First Team
•It marks the third-straight All-MVC honor for Silvey, and it is the first First Team honor of her career.
• Silvey ranked in the top-15 of the MVC in points, three-pointers made per game and minutes played.Â
Climbing up the list
• Makenzie Silvey is 12 points shy of becoming just the sixth player in program history to reach the 1,500 point plateau.Â
• She passed Petra Jackson for sixth on Southern's all-time scoring list and is 20 points shy of passing Sue Faber (1,507) for fifth.Â
• Silvey, who will get another year of eligibility back because of the NCAA's ruling on COVID, is currently 292 points shy of breaking Cartaesha Macklin's school record of 1,779 that she set in 2016.
• Silvey could become the first player in program history to amass at least 1,400 career points/400 rebounds/250 assists/200 three-pointers/150 steals in a career. The Glen Carbon, Ill. native needs just two steals to accomplish the feat.
Where Silvey ranks in school history:
Steals: 11th (148)Â
- How many needed to crack the Top-10? 5 (10. Rishonda Napier, 152)
Field Goals Made: 9th (575)
- How many needed to move up to 8th? 7 (8. Dyana Pierre, 581)
Three-Pointers Made: 4th (214)
- How many needed to crack the Top-3? 22 (3. Teri Oliver, 235)
Points: 6th (1,488)
- How many needed to crack the Top-5? 20 (5. Sue Faber, 1,507)
Back-to-back Double-Doubles
• Makenzie Silvey tallied 19 points and 10 rebounds for her first career double-double against Valpo on Feb. 28. She followed with 14 points and a career-high 12 boards against UNI on March 5.Â
• She joined Abby Brockmeyer as the only Salukis to record double-doubles this season.
Three with 1,000 career points
• Makenzie Silvey scored her 1,000th career point as a junior while Abby Brockmeyer joined her in the 1,000 point club earlier this year.
• This past weekend, Gabby Walker joined the duo in the 1,000 point club with her career-high 20 points over No. 19 Missouri State on Feb. 24.
• Walker scored 689 career points in her two seasons at NCAA DII Lindenwood, and has scored 345 points in her two seasons at SIU.
• Walker has nearly doubled her scoring average in her second season in the Maroon and White, as she is averaging 9.7 points per game this season- up from 5.4 ppg a year ago.
• The Salukis are one of 11 teams nationally with three 1,000-point scorers on their roster. Air Force, Arizona, Arkansas, DePaul, Gonzaga, North Carolina, Ohio, Syracuse, Tennessee Tech and Texas A&M are the others.
4 wins shy of 400
• Head coach Cindy Stein is approaching another significant coaching milestone, as she is four wins shy of 400 for her career.
Searching for continuity
• The Salukis have been forced to use nine different starting lineups in 18 games due to COVID-19 related protocols as well as due to injury.
• Nine of SIU's 12 players have started at least one game this season.
• Only four Salukis have played in all 23 games this season, two of which are freshmen. Quierra Love, Adrianna Katcher, Payton McCallister and Caitlin Link have played in all of SIU's games this season, with McCallister's 19 starts the most of any one on the squad.
