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2010-112010-112010-11 WOMEN’SWOMEN’SWOMEN’S BASKETBALLBASKETBALLBASKETBALL NN EWSEWS && NN OTESOTES 399 Campus Drive, First Floor, Somerset, NJ 08873 Women’s Basketball Contact: Ralph Ventre Phone: 732-469-0440/Fax: 732-469-0744 E-Mail: [email protected] Bryant • Central Connecticut State • Fairleigh Dickinson • Long Island • Monmouth • Mount St. Mary’s Quinnipiac • Robert Morris • Sacred Heart • St. Francis (NY) • Saint Francis (PA) • Wagner NEC Women’s Basketball Northeast Conference Women’s Basketball Facts & Figures (Week 7/8 - January 3, 2011) Recent Results School NEC Pct. Overall Pct. Streak Home Away Neutral Wednesday, December 22 1. Fairleigh Dickinson 2-0 1.000 8-4 .667 W5 4-1 4-3 0-0 SACRED HEART 69, Harvard 60 Robert Morris 2-0 1.000 5-7 .417 W1 0-2 4-5 1-0 New Hampshire 75, QUINNIPIAC 63 Duquesne 84, SAINT FRANCIS (PA) 69 Monmouth 1-0 1.000 9-3 .750 W1 6-1 3-2 0-0 Delaware State 62, ST. FRANCIS (NY) 41 Sacred Heart 1-0 1.000 7-5 .583 L1 4-2 2-2 1-1 FAIRLEIGH DICKSINSON 51, CENTRAL CONN. ST. 46 Saint Francis (PA) 1-0 1.000 6-7 .462 W1 3-0 2-7 1-0 Tuesday, December 28 Quinnipiac 1-0 1.000 4-8 .333 W1 3-1 1-5 0-2 Syracuse 94, SAINT FRANCIS (PA) 60 7. Long Island 0-1 .000 8-4 .667 W4 4-2 4-2 0-0 Saint Bonaventure 62, SACRED HEART 54 Wagner 0-1 .000 7-5 .583 W3 2-2 4-3 1-0 Lafayette 56, QUINNIPIAC 54 (Philadelphia, PA) Bryant 0-1 .000 3-8 .273 L1 2-2 1-5 0-1 Wednesday, December 29 Mount St. Mary's 0-1 .000 3-9 .250 W2 1-3 2-6 0-0 MOUNT ST. MARY’S 72, San Jose State 69 Central Conn. St. 0-2 .000 7-5 .583 L1 3-0 4-4 0-1 Brown 75, MONMOUTH 71 St. Francis (NY) 0-2 .000 2-10 .167 L1 2-6 0-4 0-0 WAGNER 68, Vermont 40 (Hanover, NH) QUINNIPIAC 62, New Hampshire 61 (Philadelphia, PA) *- Denotes that team has clinched NEC Tournament berth. Top eight teams in final standings qualify for NEC Tournament. Kent State 66, ROBERT MORRIS 60 Pennsylvania 66, ST. FRANCIS (NY) 38 Choice Hotels NEC Co-Players of the Week Samford 76, CENTRAL CONN ST. 57 (Jersey City, NJ) Megan Mahoney, Wagner Thursday, December 30 Syracuse 90, BRYANT 31 Sr., G, 5-7, Staten Island, NY/St. Peter’s HS (Fordham) MONMOUTH 60, Binghamton 51 Mahoney was a driving force behind Wagner's three-game win streak that began back on December 21. Contributing in a WAGNER 69, Dartmouth 52 number of ways to double-digit victories over Saint Peter's, Vermont, and Dartmouth, the 5-foot-7 senior guard averaged 17.3 LONG ISLAND 69, Jacksonville 59 points, 7.7 rebounds, 5.3 assists, and 3.0 steals per contest. She shot 51.5 percent (17-for-33) from the field, including a 4- FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON 45, Howard 44 for-7 clip from three-point range, during the three-game span. In her final home game of 2010, the native Staten Islander poured Friday, December 31 in 19 points to help Wagner down MAAC member Saint Peter's. Mahoney was even more impressive when the Seahawks CENTRAL CONN. ST. 78, Saint Peter’s 66 contested Dartmouth's Blue Sky Classic one week later. Leading Wagner to a pair of victories that and a tournament title, Mahoney Long Island 58, North Florida 40 averaged 16.5 points, 10.0 rebounds, and 6.5 assists and earned a place on the All-Classic Team. She tallied 18 points, seven ST. FRANCIS (NY) 57, Stony Brook 54 rebounds, six assists, and a season-high five steals in a 68-50 win over Vermont before notching her first career double-double MOUNT ST. MARY’S 79, San Francisco 77 (OT) against tournament host Dartmouth. Mahoney scored 15 points and pulled down a career-high 13 boards in a convincing 17- Sunday, January 2 point road win over the Big Green. She also tied a career high by dishing out seven assists in the 69-52 victory. SAINT FRANCIS (PA) 66, ST. FRANCIS (NY) 54 ROBERT MORRIS 55, Coppin State 51 Ashley Palmer, Long Island #6 West Virginia 63, CENTRAL CONN. ST. 37 Jr., F, 5-10, Oxford, PA/Oxford Area Upcoming Games Palmer averaged a double-double to help the NEC preseason favorite Blackbirds notch a pair of double-digit wins down in the Monday, January 3 Sunshine State. The two-time all-NEC honoree averaged 19.5 points and 12.0 rebounds during road victories at Jacksonville BRYANT at Army 5:00 pm and North Florida. Spearheading a winning effort on back-to-back nights, Palmer shot a steady 55 percent (12-for-22) from WAGNER at SACRED HEART 7:00 pm the floor and a near-perfect 94 percent (15-of-16) from the free throw line. She scored 19 points and secured a season-high New Jersey Tech at FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON 7:00 pm 16 boards in a 69-59 triumph over Jacksonville on December 30. Palmer reached the 20-point mark one day later at North Tuesday, January 4 Florida, but finished two rebounds shy of another double-double. Her 20 points, eight rebounds, and three steals helped LIU SAINT FRANCIS (PA) at LONG ISLAND 7:00 pm extend its win streak to four games with a 58-40 triumph on New Year's Eve. Attempting to rank amongst the NEC's top-10 MOUNT ST. MARY’S at QUINNIPIAC 7:00 pm leaders in both scoring and rebounding for a third straight season, Palmer is averaged 13.3 points (8th) and 9.7 rebounds Wednesday, January 5 (2nd) per game. BRYANT at MONMOUTH 7:00 pm Choice Hotels NEC Rookie of the Week Friday, January 7 QUINNIPIAC at MONMOUTH 12:00 pm Artemis Spanou, Robert Morris SACRED HEART at FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON 7:00 pm Fr., F, 6-0, Rhodes, Greece Saturday, January 8 Spanou closed the out the 2010 calendar year by setting a career high for scoring before ringing in the New Year by notching LONG ISLAND at CENTRAL CONN. ST. 1:00 pm a double-double. For the third time this season, her efforts landed the freshman forward Choice Hotels NEC Rookie of the Week ST. FRANCIS (NY) at BRYANT 1:00 pm honors. Starting in all four of Robert Morris' games over the past two weeks, Spanou averaged 12.0 points and 8.8 rebounds ROBERT MORRIS at MOUNT ST. MARY’S 3:00 pm while shooting 53 percent (9-of-17) from three-point range. She was one rebound shy of a double-double (12 points, 9 SAINT FRANCIS (PA) at WAGNER 4:00 pm rebounds) as the Colonials began the four-game stretch with a 73-47 win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at the Florida Gator Holiday Classic. Spanou poured in a career-high 22 points in a 66-60 setback at Kent State, which improved to 5-0 at home, on December 29. Helping the Colonials rediscover their winning ways four days later at Coppin State, the 6-foot forward tallied 10 points and a career-high 14 rebounds in a 55-51 triumph. Northeast Conference NEC Notebook 2010-11 League Leaders (Overall) Team Scoring Offense Individual Scoring NEC Makes Strides in Non-Conference Contests Saint Francis (PA), 67.8 ppg Sam Leach (SFPA), 16.6 ppg Fairleigh Dickinson and Bryant will officially put a lid on non-conference play this week. Team Scoring Defense Individual Rebounding The lone two Northeast Conference teams with non-league games remaining on their sched- Fairleigh Dickinson, 55.0 ppg Ashley Palmer (LIU), 9.7 rpg ules, FDU and Bryant play their final non-NEC contests on January 3. Riding a five-game win streak, Pete Cinella's FDU Knights will host NJIT before NEC rivals Sacred Heart and Team Scoring Margin Individual FG Pct. Quinnipiac come to town this weekend. Meanwhile, Bryant, which has played only once in Monmouth, +4.6 ppg Kelly Clark (WAG), .571 the last 13 days, will visit West Point for a meeting with Patriot League member Army. The Team Rebounding Margin Individual Free Throw Pct. Bulldogs have already defeated two Patriot League opponents - Colgate (Dec. 11) and Holy Long Island, +8.2/g Erin Rooney (MON), .968 (30-31) Cross (Dec. 19) - during what has been a successful showing for the Northeast Conference Team FG Pct. Individual Assists against its rival peer conferences. As of January 2, NEC teams have accounted for a 61-67 Wagner, .408 Brittany Lilley (SFPA), 6.36 apg (.477) record in non-conference games. The improvement in win percentage, which is up from last year's non-league mark of 49-80 (.380), is evident in the conference-by-confer- Team FG Pct. Defense Individual Steals ence RPI rankings. The Northeast Conference ranks 21st out of 32 NCAA Division I leagues Central Conn. St., .328 Danielle Douglas (BRY), 2.55 spg in overall RPI, positioned ahead of numerous regional peers. The Ivy League (23), Metro Team Free Throw Pct. Individual 3-point FG Pct. Atlantic Athletic Conference (24), America East (27), and Patriot League (28) all trail the Fairleigh Dickinson, .716 Marie Archambault (WAG), .472 NEC in the RPI standings. Team 3-point FG Pct. Individual Blocks Saint Francis (PA), .372 Esther Wallace (FDU), 2.75 bpg New Season Tips Off Out with the holiday season and onto conference play.