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2014-15 MIDDLE TENNESSEE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Tony Stinnett • Assistant Athletic Communciations Director • 1500 Greenland Drive, Murfreesboro, TN 37132 • O: (615) 898-5270 • C: (615) 631-9521 • [email protected] 2014-15 SCHEDULE/RESULTS GAME 5: CLEMSON AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE OVERALL: 2-2 Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 // 11 a.m. // Murphy Center // Murfreesboro, TN C-USA: 0-0 HOME: 1-1 AWAY: 1-1 NEUTRAL: 0-0 GAME INFORMATION THE TREND Venue: Murphy Center (11,520) NOVEMBER Location: Murfreesboro, Tenn. 6 Martin Methodist (ex) W, 93-44 Tip-Off Time: 11:00 a.m. 10 UAH (ex) W, 75-50 Television: None 14 at Arizona State L, 67-81 Live stream: GoBlueRaiders.com Radio: WMOT 89.5 FM/WGNS 1450 AM 17 Miami (ASN) W, 53-48 Talent: Dick Palmer (pxp) 20 Arkansas L, 51-58 Duane Hickey (analyst) 23 at Ole Miss (SECN) W, 71-65 Senior forward Cheyenne Parker secured a Live Stats: GoBlueRaiders.com double double with 25 points and 10 rebounds Twitter Updates: @MT_WBB in her MT debut against Ole Miss. DECEMBER GAME BREAKDOWN 3 Clemson 11:00 a.m. 7 Xavier 2:00 p.m. 12 at Kentucky (SECN) 8:00 p.m. 15 at S. Dakota State 7:00 p.m. 20 UCF 2:00 p.m. 28 at Tennessee Tech 2:00 p.m. JANUARY BLUE RAIDERS (2-2) TIGERS (3-4) 4 at UAB* 2:00 p.m. Location: Murfreesboro, Tenn. Location: Clemson, S.C. 8 at FIU* 5:00 p.m. Enrollment: 23,881 Enrollment: 19,911 10 at Florida Atlantic* 4:00 p.m. President: Dr. Sidney A. McPhee President: James P. Clements 15 Southern Miss* 7:00 p.m. Director of Athletics: Chris Massaro Athletic Director: Dan Radakovich Conference: Conference USA Conference: Atlantic Coast Conference 17 Louisiana Tech* (ASN) 7:00 p.m. Head Coach: Rick Insell Head Coach: Audra Smith 22 at Old Dominion* TBA 10th Season at MT: 230-69 (.769) 2nd Season at CU: 16-23 (.410) 24 at Charlotte* (FSN) 11:00 a.m. 10th Season Overall: Same 11th Season Overall: 154-161 (.489) 29 UTSA* 7:00 p.m. MT vs. CU: 3-1 CU vs. MT: 1-3 Last Meeting: MT 76, @CU 51 - 12/29/13 Last Meeting: @CU 51, MT 76 - 12/29/13 31 UTEP* (FSN) 11:00 a.m. Insell vs. CU: 1-0 Smith vs. MT: 0-1 FEBRUARY QUICK HITTERS 5 at Southern MIss* 6:00 p.m. • Middle Tennessee celebrates its 40th season of women’s basketball in 2014-15. 7 at Louisiana Tech* 6:00 p.m. • Wednesday’s game marks the 300th for Rick Insell as head coach of the Blue Raiders. He is 230-69 overall. 12 Rice* 7:00 p.m. • Middle Tennessee was the preseason favorite of league coaches to win C-USA. Sophomore 14 North Texas* 4:00 p.m. Olivia Jones was named Preseason All-SBC. 19 at Marshall* 10:00 a.m. • MT’s schedule is rated toughest in the nation in the fi rst NCAA Rankings (through Nov. 24). 21 at WKU* 2:00 p.m. 28 UAB* 5:00 p.m. PROJECTED STARTERS MIDDLE TENNESSEE Ht. Yr. Hometown PPG RPG FG% 3FG% FT% MARCH G 20 Ty PETTY 5-7 So. Murfreesboro, TN 6.3 2.8 .276 .125 .667 F 22 Rebecca REUTER 6-2 Fr. Cleveland, TN 4.5 4.0 .263 .250 .875 5 FIU* 8:00 p.m. F 23 Gabby LYON 6-0 Fr. Johnson City, TN 2.5 1.3 .500 .500 1.000 7 Florida Atlantic* 10:30 a.m. G 32 Caroline WARDEN 5-7 Jr. Gainesboro, TN 6.5 2.3 .375 .500 .667 11-14 C-USA Championships (Birmingham, AL) G 34 Olivia JONES 5-10 So. Murfreesboro, TN 15.0 10.8 .429 .263 .565 RESERVES Ht. Yr. Hometown PPG RPG FG% 3FG% FT% * - game G 2 Hannah PRESERVATI 5-8 Fr. Woodbury, TN. 0.0 0.0 .000 .000 .000 All times Central and subject to change G 3 Abbey SISSOM 5-8 Fr. Woodbury, TN. 0.0 1.0 .000 .000 .000 Games in bold played at Murphy Center G 5 Shanice CASON 5-6 Sr. Murfreesboro, TN. 0.0 1.0 .000 .000 .000 G 10 MacKenzie SELLS 5-10 Jr. Livingston, TN 1.3 2.3 .250 .250 .500 FOLLOW THE RAIDERS F 11 Cheyenne PARKER 6-4 r-Sr. Queens, N.Y. 25.0 10.0 .643 .000 .700 Twitter: @MT_WBB G 12 Brea EDWARDS 5-10 r-Jr. Rockford, IL 4.0 1.0 .353 .267 .000 G 24 China DOW 5-8 So. Louisville, KY 11.5 4.8 .342 .263 .536 Instagram: @MT_WBB F 30 Caya WILLIAMS 6-1 So. Mt. Juliet, TN 3.3 2.0 .364 .000 .500 Facebook: MTSU Women’s Basketball F 31 TiAnna PORTER 6-2 r-Jr. Paris, TN 0.5 0.5 .500 .000 .000 Website: GoBlueRaiders.com * - Projections from the previous starting lineups GAME 5: CLEMSON AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE •DEC. 3, 2014 Blue Raider History Father Wins Historic Showdown Insell Amongst the Best • Middle Tennessee defeated Ole Miss, • MT Head Coach Rick Insell is one of the Years of Basketball 40th season 71-65, in Oxford Nov. 23, in a historic nation’s winningest women’s coaches. First Intercollegiate Season 1975-76 game. • Insell ranks seventh among winningest All-Time Head Coaches 7 • It marked the fi rst time a father (MT’s active coaches in Division I by winning All-Time Record 824-373 (.688) Rick Insell) and son (Ole Miss’ Matt Insell) percentage with a .773 clip entering the Winning Seasons 36 have squared off against one another season. .500 Seasons 1 as head coaches in a NCAA Division I • The Clemson game marks Insell’s 300th Losing Seasons 2 Women’s Basketball game. as MT’s Head Coach. His record is 230-69. 20+ Win Seasons 22 NCAA Division I Winningest Active Coaches Series with Clemson (By Percentage) • The Blue Raiders and Tigers meet for the Conference History Coach School % fi fth time in program history. Win-Loss Record 417-119 (.778) 1 Geno Auriemma UConn .869 Regular-Season Titles 19 • MT leads series 3-1. 2 Kim Mulkey Baylor .824 • MT is 1-0 vs. Clemson at Murphy Center. Tournament Titles 14 3 Tara VanDerveer Stanford .817 • MT Head Coach Rick Insell is 1-0 against 4 David Six Hampton .784 Winning Seasons in League Play 35 Clemson. .500 Seasons 1 5 Brian Giorgia Marist .777 • MT won last meeting, 76-51, (12/29/13) 6 Matt Bollant Illinois .775 Losing Seasons 1 in Clemson, S.C. 7 Rick Insell MT .773 8 Mike McLaughlin Penn .773 NCAA Tournament Scouting the Tigers 9 Wes Moore NC State 767 Appearances 17 • Clemson is 3-4 under second-year Head 10 Joe Foley UALR .764 Most Recent Appearance 2014 Coach Audra Smith. Consecutive Appearances 6 • The Tigers started 3-1 but are in the Demanding Schedule midst of a three-game losing streak. • MT faces another tough non-conference (1983-86, 2004-07, 2009-14) • Clemson players Shelbie Davenport slate in 2014-15. Won-Loss Record 5-17 (10.3 ppg) and Tiff any Lewis (6.9 ppg) both • MT faces teams from the SEC (Arkansas, Sweet 16s 0 are from Murfreesboro and played high Kentucky, Ole Miss); ACC (Miami, Elite Eights 0 school basketball at Riverdale, where they Clemson); Pac-12 (Arizona State) and Big Final Fours 0 were teammates of current Blue Raiders East (Xavier) in the early going. Championships 0 Olivia Jones and Ty Petty. • MT had six wins against Power Conference • Nikki Dixon leads Clemson in scoring opponents in 2013 and already have two WNIT Tournament with 15.3 ppg. (Miami, Ole Miss) in 2014. Appearances 3 Vs. the ACC Tough as Nails Most Recent Appearance 2008 • MT is 7-8 all-time against members of • MT Head Coach Rick Insell has said the Consecutive Appearances 1 the Atlantic Coast Conference. 2014-15 schedule is the toughest the Blue Won-Loss Record 1-3 • MT is 3-4 all-time against members of Raiders have faced in his 10 years at the the ACC under Head Coach Rick Insell. helm. National Rankings • MT currently has a three-game win • According to the NCAA rankings it is one Highest Regular-Season Ranking #16 streak against ACC members (2-0 against of the toughest in the nation this season. (AP & Coaches - 2006-07) Miami and Clemson last season and 1-0 • MT’s schedule was ranked No. 1 for Highest Preseason Ranking #24 against Miami this season). strongest (out of 345 teams) in the fi rst (AP - 2009-10) NCAA ranking period. MT Athletics Host Education Day • MT’s is ranked No. 2 in strength of Ranked in fi nal AP Top 25 1, #17, 2007 • For the third consecutive year, Middle schedule and has the nation’s No. 7 RPI Ranked in fi nal Coaches Top 25 1, #23, Tennessee Athletics in conjunction with entering play the week of Dec. 1. 2007 Murfreesboro City Schools is hosting the Total Weeks in the AP Poll 21 Education Day game this Wednesday. Tale of the Tape Total Weeks in the Coaches Poll 28 • More than 6,000 school children are Stat MT CU expected to attend the event. There Overall Record 2-2 3-4 National Honors will be numerous education activities Conference Record 0-0 0-0 All-Americans 4 involved, including scientifi c experiments. Field Goals Made 80 169 Freshman All-Americans 1 • Last year, 10,028 attended the Education Field Goals Att.