Big Ten Women's Basketball Page 1/7 Conference Statistics As of Feb 14, 2021 All Games
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BIG TEN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL DAILY UPDATE • FEBRUARY 14, 2021 Primary Contact: Chris Masters, Associate Director, Communications • Office: 847-696-1010, ext. 146 • Cell: 574-532-4166 • E-mail: [email protected] • Twitter: @B1GWBBall Secondary Contact: Leigh McGuirk, Bob Hammel Communications Intern • Office: 847-696-1010, ext. 142 • E-mail: [email protected] 2020-21 BIG TEN STANDINGS UPCOMING SCHEDULE Conference Games All Games Top Last Sunday, Feb. 14 W-LT PC H A Streak W-L PCT H A N 25* 10 Stk • #21/20 NORTHWESTERN at #12/11 OHIO STATE (BTN) ..1 p.m. Maryland 9-1 .900 4-0 5-1 W1 13-2 .867 6-0 5-1 2-1 3-2 9-1 W2 • WISCONSIN at MINNESOTA (BTN+) ..............2 p.m. Michigan 6-1 .857 3-0 3-1 W1 11-1 .917 6-0 5-1 0-0 2-1 9-1 W1 • RUTGERS at PURDUE (BTN+) ........................2 p.m. Indiana 10-2 .833 5-1 5-1 W3 12-4 .750 7-2 5-2 0-0 1-4 8-2 W3 • #15/14 INDIANA at ILLINOIS (BTN+) .............3 p.m. Ohio State 8-3 .727 5-0 3-3 L1 12-3 .800 9-0 3-3 0-0 3-1 7-3 L1 • #9/10 MARYLAND at NEBRASKA (FS1) .........5 p.m. Northwestern 9-4 .692 4-3 5-1 L1 11-4 .733 6-3 5-1 0-0 1-2 7-3 L1 Monday, Feb. 15 Michigan State 6-5 .545 2-3 4-2 W1 11-5 .688 7-3 4-2 0-0 0-4 5-5 W1 No games scheduled Iowa 7-6 .538 4-3 3-3 W1 11-6 .647 7-3 4-3 0-0 1-5 5-5 W1 Nebraska 7-7 .500 5-2 2-5 L3 9-8 .529 7-2 2-6 0-0 3-2 5-5 L3 Tuesday, Feb. 16 Rutgers 3-3 .500 1-1 2-2 W2 7-3 .700 5-1 2-2 0-0 1-1 7-3 W2 • #NR/RV MICHIGAN STATE at #12/12 MICHIGAN (BTN)...4:30 p.m. Penn State 5-8 .385 2-6 3-2 L2 8-9 .471 5-6 3-3 0-0 0-6 5-5 L2 Wednesday, Feb. 17 (remaining TV coverage TBD) Minnesota 5-8 .385 2-5 3-3 W1 6-9 .400 3-6 3-3 0-0 0-4 5-5 W1 • ILLINOIS at #9/10 MARYLAND (BTN) ............1 p.m. Purdue 3-9 .250 2-5 1-4 L4 6-10 .375 5-6 1-4 0-0 0-5 2-8 L4 • MINNESOTA at RUTGERS ................................. TBD Wisconsin 2-13 .133 2-6 0-7 W1 5-13 .278 5-6 0-7 0-0 1-6 2-8 W1 • NEBRASKA at #21/20 NORTHWESTERN........... TBD Illinois 1-11 .083 1-4 0-7 L1 3-12 .200 3-5 0-7 0-0 0-4 1-9 L1 * - Associated Press or USA Today/WBCA polls Thursday, Feb. 18 (TV coverage TBD) • #12/12 MICHIGAN at #15/14 INDIANA ........... TBD • PENN STATE at #NR/RV IOWA .......................... TBD BIG TEN. BIG NEWS. • PURDUE at #12/11 OHIO STATE ....................... TBD • Five Big Ten women’s basketball games are lined up Sunday afternoon, starting with a Top 25 matchup on BTN and the FOX Sports app when No. 21/20 Northwestern visits No. 12/11 Ohio State (1 p.m. ET). Friday, Feb. 19 Following three games on Big Ten Network+, the day concludes with the first-ever Big Ten women’s No games scheduled basketball game on FS1 as No. 9/10 Maryland travels to Nebraska (5 p.m. ET). All times Eastern (dates, times and TV subject to change) • Maryland head coach Brenda Frese tied the program record with her 499th win at the school on Feb. • - Big Ten Conference game 4 when her Terrapins downed visiting Wisconsin, 84-48. Frese, who is 499-130 (.793) in 19 seasons at Maryland, matched the total of her predecessor, Chris Weller, who went 499-286 (.636) from 1975- NOTES: BTN games also on the FOX Sports app, with Big Ten Net- 2002. Frese can become the third active Big Ten coach to earn 500 wins at her current school (Rutgers’ work+ games at btnplus.com … Games on ESPN networks also C. Vivian Stringer - 528; Michigan State men’s coach Tom Izzo - 638) on Sunday when the Terrapins on the ESPN app. travel to Nebraska. Rankings from Associated Press/USA Today polls at tipoff (RV - • Iowa freshman guard Caitlin Clark tallied her conference-leading seventh 30-point game and sixth receiving votes/NR - not ranked; if only one rank is listed, it’s from double-double this season with a career-high 39 points and 10 rebounds (plus seven assists) in the the AP poll) Hawkeyes’ 88-81 win at Nebraska on Thursday. Clark is the first NCAA Division I freshman with seven 30-point games in a season since 2017-18, when Texas A&M’s Chennedy Carter also reached that mark (and Clark did so in 19 fewer games than Carter). LATEST RESULTS Saturday, Feb. 13 • Rutgers became the ninth different Big Ten program to record a Top 25 win this season with its 70-54 • #NR/RV MICHIGAN STATE 78, at PENN STATE 65 victory at No. 21/20 Northwestern on Thursday. It was also the Scarlet Knights’ first win in five visits to Welsh-Ryan Arena and first road victory over a ranked opponent since Dec. 31, 2018 (73-65 at No. 4 Thursday, Feb. 11 Maryland). • RUTGERS 70, at #21/20 NORTHWESTERN 54 • Michigan returned from a two-week hiatus on Thursday with a 62-49 victory at Purdue. The Wolverines • #12/12 MICHIGAN 62, at PURDUE 49 are off to their best-ever start at 11-1, topping a handful of 10-2 starts, most recently in 2017-18. • #NR/RV IOWA 88, at NEBRASKA 81 • Wisconsin earned its first win over a Top 25 opponent this season with a 75-70 victory over No. 12/11 Wednesday, Feb. 10 Ohio State on Wednesday in Madison. It’s the highest-ranked opponent the Badgers have defeated • at #15/14 INDIANA 90, PENN STATE 65 since Jan. 31, 2013 when they edged seventh-ranked Penn State, 63-61, also at the Kohl Center. • at MINNESOTA 83, ILLINOIS 73 • at WISCONSIN 75, #12/11 OHIO STATE 70 • Indiana junior guard Grace Berger posted her third triple-double of the season on Wednesday with 17 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in the Hoosiers’ 90-65 win over Penn State. Berger has tied the Big Sunday, Feb. 7 Ten record for triple-doubles in a season (3 by Iowa’s Samantha Logic in 2014-15) and is also tied for • at #11/13 OHIO STATE 83, MINNESOTA 59 second on the conference’s career triple-doubles list (Logic had six from 2011-15 and Minnesota’s Amanda Zahui B had three from 2013-15). In addition, this is the fifth triple-double by a Big Ten player • #17/17 INDIANA 85, at #NR/RV IOWA 72 this season (among 13 in all of NCAA Division I), setting a Big Ten record for most triple-doubles • at RUTGERS 78, NEBRASKA 62 collectively in one season (conference players had four in both 2013-14 and 2014-15). • at PENN STATE 98, WISCONSIN 74 • at ILLINOIS 54, PURDUE 49 • Berger is just the fifth player in NCAA Division I history to record two triple-doubles against the same • #22/20 NORTHWESTERN 63, at MICHIGAN STATE 60 school in the same season (she also had one at Penn State on Jan. 7). The other four on this exclusive list are: Virginia’s Dawn Staley (vs. NC State in 1990-91), Arkansas State’s Sonja Tate (vs. Mississippi Thursday, Feb. 4 Valley State in 1992-93), Rutgers’ Tasha Pointer (vs. Providence in 2000-01) and Oregon’s Sabrina • at #10/10 MARYLAND 84, WISCONSIN 48 Ionescu (vs. Arizona in 2019-20). • at MICHIGAN STATE 81, ILLINOIS 60 • Illinois sophomore guard Jeanae Terry nearly had her own triple-double on Wednesday, finishing with • at #11/13 OHIO STATE 92, #NR/RV IOWA 87 21 points, eight rebounds and a career-high 10 assists in an 83-73 loss at Minnesota. Terry is the fourth • at PENN STATE 85, NEBRASKA 74 Big Ten player in the past month to come close to a triple-double, along with Nebraska’s Kate Cain (22 points/12 rebounds/9 blocks on Jan. 16 vs. Ohio State), Northwestern’s Veronica Burton (20 points/15 Monday, Feb. 1 rebounds/9 assists on Feb. 1 vs. Ohio State) and Iowa’s Caitlin Clark (39 points/10 rebounds/7 assists • at #22/23 NORTHWESTERN 69, #11/11 OHIO STATE 57 on Thursday at Nebraska). • - Big Ten Conference game BIG LIFE. BIG STAGE. BIG TEN. The Big Ten Academic Alliance is an academic consortium of all 14 Big Ten universities, which is widely considered to be the model for effective and voluntary collaboration among top research universities. 2020-21 BIG TEN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL DAILY UPDATE 2 BIG TEN. BIG NEWS. • The Big Ten leads all NCAA Division I conferences with five schools in the top field-goal percentage rankings released Sunday. Iowa’s Monika Czinano is 20 and ranks second with eight in the top 40 of the latest NCAA NET (NCAA No. 1 (.671), followed by Michigan’s Naz Hillmon (.643) at No. 2 and Evaluation Tool) rankings released Sunday. The current NET rankings are Indiana’s Mackenzie Holmes (.620) at No.