University of Illinois Women's Basketball Game Notes for Wisconsin
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University of Illinois Women’s Basketball Game Notes for Wisconsin Women’s Basketball SID: Mike Koon 217/244-1256; Assistant: Kara Stachowiak 217/244 - 4 9 8 2 2001-2002 Illinois Schedule Illinois (11-4, 4-1) at No. 5 Wisconsin (15-1, 6-0) 11/5 OGBM Legends (ex.) W, 105-90 Jan. 17, 2002, 7:00 p.m., Kohl Center, Madison, Wis . 11/11 LKKA-Kuanas (ex.) W, 97-34 TV : FoxSportsNet North (Marni Gellner & Craig Koshun) 1119 at Clemson L, 62-73 Radio: Illini Sports Network (Dave Loane and Mike Koon) 11/23 vs. James Madison W, 85-45 (@ S. Mary’s, Cal., Tournament) Probable Illini Line-up 11/24 vs. St. Mary’s, Cal. Pos. No. Name Ht. Yr. PPG RPG APG (@ St. Mary’s Tourney) W, 66-53 G 23 Shavonna Hunter 5-7 Jr. 12.6 2.3 4.3 F 30 Aminata Yanni 6-1 So. 5.7 1.2 1.1 11/27 at Duquesne W, 74-71 C 11 Iveta Marcauskaite 6-4 So. 16.3 6.4 1.9 12/4 at DePaul L, 62-69 F 52 Dawn Vana 6-2 Sr. 9.0 4.3 4.9 12/6 Illinois State W, 75-57 F 55 Cindy Dallas 6-2 r-So. 12.9 8.5 0.7 12/8 Pepperdine W, 77-71 OT (@ United Center, Chicago) Reserves 12/16 at Oklahoma L, 69-91 Pos. No. Name Ht. Yr. PPG RPG APG (Big Ten/Big XII Challenge) G 00 Yolanda Smith 5-10 Sr. 0.3 0.5 0.3 G 4 Allison Guth 5-9 So. 0.0 0.0 0.0 12/19 Eastern Illinois W, 91-49 G 22 Tiffanie Guthrie 5-10 So. 6.1 3.6 1.0 12/22 Missouri (@St. Louis) W, 74-53 F 24 Holly Wilson 6-2 Sr. 0.5 0.0 0.0 12/28 at Michigan W, 85-81 G 25 Jeré Issenmann 5-10 Fr. 2.9 1.5 1.1 12/30 Northwestern W, 68-53 F 32 Karen Hagberg 6-3 Jr. 2.7 2.7 0.7 1/3 at Minnesota L, 75-89 F 33 Angelina Williams 6-1 Fr. 6.5 4.4 0.7 1/7 Penn State W, 81-75 C 45 Brenda Blackburn 6-6 So. 0.4 0.6 0.1 1/13 Michigan State W, 72-66 1/17 at Wisconsin 7 p.m. 1/20 at Northwestern 2 p.m. FIRST-PLACE SHOWDOWN NEXT FOR ILLINOIS The Illinois women’s basketball team is gearing up for a first-place show- 1/24 at Purdue 6 p.m. down with the Wisconsin Badgers this Thursday in Madison, Wis. This is 1/27 Michigan 2 p.m. the only meeting between Wisconsin and Illinois this season. The Illini 1/31 Minnesota 7 p.m. come into the contest winners of eight of their last ten games, including a 2/7 Purdue 7 p.m. 4-1 start to the Big Ten conference. Wisconsin is 15-1, 6-0 in the Big Ten and ranked No. 5 in nation. 2/9 at Michigan State 6 p.m. 2/13 Ohio State 7 p.m. JANUARY IN THE KOHL CENTER 2/17 at Penn State Noon This is just Illinois’ fourth trip to the Kohl Center. The two teams did not 2/21 Indiana 7 p.m. meet in Madison last year. The Badgers hold a 2-1 advantage in the series, 2/24 at Iowa 2 p.m. but both of Wisconsin’s wins came in February. The only other time the 2/28- Big Ten Tournament two teams met in January at the Kohl Center was Jan. 4, 2000 -- an 80-74 Illinois victory. All three meetings between the two schools in Madison 3/3 (@ Indianapolis, Ind.) TBA went down to the wire. The Badgers won on the last week of the season, 3/15-18 NCAAFirst/Second Round 73-69, in 1998, and the Badgers had to come from behind to post an 82-78 (Campus Sites) TBA victory over the Illini the following year. 3/23-25 NCAA Regional TBA 3/30-4/1 NCAAFinal Four THE SERIES Illinois leads the all-time series, 24-18. The Illini have won seven of the last (@ San Antonio, Texas) TBA ten meetings. The Illini are 7-12 all-time in Madison. Theresa Grentz has a Home games in bold 7-4 record vs. Wisconsin while at Illinois. Both Grentz and Wisconsin coach Jane Albright began in the same year, thus Albright’s record vs. Illinois is 4-7. Of those 11 meetings, only two have been decided by double digits, both Illinois victories (90-72 on 12/30/1998 and 80-68 on 3/2/2001. University of Illinois Women’s Basketball Game Notes for Wisconsin Women’s Basketball SID: Mike Koon 217/244-1256; Assistant: Kara Stachowiak 217/244 - 4 9 8 2 heresa Grentz is more than a ILLINI UPSET BADGERS AT BIG TEN TOURNEY basketball coach. In her six Illinois and Wisconsin last met at the Big Ten Tournament years in Champaign, Grentz last year. The Illini came in as sixth seed and Wisconsin as T the third seed, but Illinois prevailed, 80-68, to advance to the has made over 800 public appear- ances at various functions. She semifinals. Illinois has been in the semifinals of the confer- takes time to talk one-on-one with ence tournament five of the last six seasons. boys and girls. She shares stories with the morning disc jockeys. Cindy Dallas had a breakout game in that contest with 16 In just seven years, Gre n t z points and six rebounds. After Illinois led 35-27 at halftime, became the winningest coach in Wisconsin exploded for 16 points in less than four minutes Illinois history. She curre n t l y to take a 43-41 lead. That’s when Dallas took charge, scoring has a record of 127-76 at Illinois seven straight points as the Illini took the lead for good. and 588-231 overall Grentz has achieved on the DRIBBLE, PASS, AND SHOOT court. Her uniform number (#12 in high school) has been retired Illinois Head Coach Theresa Grentz often quotes a basketball at all levels. She has won a national championship as a coach authority who says that to be successful in basketball, you and been honored to coach the U.S. Olympic Team. Last summer she was inducted into the Women’s Basketball have to be able to dribble, pass and shoot. The Illini have Hall of Fame. done both in winning six of their last seven games. On Dec. The sixth winningest women’s basketball coach in NCAAhis- 16, Illinois stood 5-3 after a 91-69 loss at Oklahoma. Since tory, Grentz led the Illini to a program-best 24-8 mark in 1996-97, that game, the Illini are 6-1 with the only loss coming at a 20-10 record in 1997-98 and 23-11 in 1999-2000. Her success at Minnesota. Several things have changed: Illinois has earned her back-to-back Big Ten Coach of the Year • The most notable difference has come in turnovers. In the and WBCADistrict Coach of the Year honors. first eight games, the Illini turned the ball over an average of Grentz led the Fighting Illini to the program’s first-ever Big 21 times per game compared to 19.8 for its opponents. In the Ten title in 1997 and first-ever appearances in the NCAA Sweet past six games Illinois is averaging just 17.7 turnovers per Sixteen in both ’97 and ’98. The team’s No. 5 ranking in the AP game compared to 23.0 for its opponents. and USA Today polls in December, 1997 marked the highest • Rebounding has made a slight improvement. In the first ranking ever for an Illinois team. eight games the Illini and their opponents had the same Since Grentz arrived in Champaign, Illinois has broken every number of rebounds. Since then the Illini are out-rebounding attendance record and achieved almost 10 times the total atten- opponents by an average of 2.0 per game. dance before she took the helm at UI. The Fighting Illini’s 1999- • Dawn Vana has been key to the success. In the first eight 00 season attendance total of 104,000-plus broke the previous games, she had 30 assists and 30 turnovers. Since then, she mark of 81,000 set the year before. has been a passing machine with 44 assists to just 17 During 19 seasons at Rutgers (1976-95), Grentz’s teams com- turnovers, a ratio 2.6:1. piled an outstanding record of 434-150 (.743), including nine con- secutive NCAAtournament appearances from 1986-94. Fourteen • Shavonna Hunter averaged 2.4 steals and the team 10.5 of Grentz’s 19 Lady Knight teams won at least 20 games. Her steals per game prior to Dec. 16. Since then Hunter has 4.0 1981-82 team finished with a 25-7 record and won the AIAW steals per game and the team 13.9. National Championship. • Illinois is also getting to the free-throw line more often. In With Grentz coaching the 1992 Olympic Team, the U.S. won the first eight games, the Illini averaged 16.5 free-throw its first three games by an average of 45.6 points at the Barcelona attempts per game while their opponents went to the line games. After a heartbreaking 79-73 loss to the Unified Team, the 19.9 times.