Bellarmine Basketball Quick Facts Location Louisville, KY 40205 BELLARMINE BASKETBALL Founded / Enrollment 1950 / 3,293 Nickname / Colors Knights / Scarlet & Silver 16 NCAA II Tournament Appearances • 4 NCAA II Elite Eights • 1 NCAA II Final Four Conference ASUN Home Court Freedom Hall President Dr. Susan M. Donovan Bellarmine Knights Director of Athletics Scott Wiegandt Deputy Director of Athletics/SWA Pam Stackhouse at Stetson Hatters Head Coach Chancellor Dugan (9th) Saturday-Sunday, January 23-24 • 1 PM/1 PM (ET) • Edmunds Center • DeLand, FL Bellarmine Record 143-94 Overall Record 463-384 Assistant Coach Shannon Litton (9th) MOST RECENT STARTERS Assistant Coach Crystal Kelly (1st) Bellarmine (0-9, 0-4 ASUN) Ht. Yr. PPG RPG Hometown Assistant Coach Abby Owings (1st) F 23 Lauren Deel 5-11 Sr. 10.6 4.2 Louisville, KY All-Time NCAA Tournament Record 11-17 (16 Appearances, 1 Final Four, 4 Elite Eights) F 42 Sheniqua Coatney 6-2 Jr. 6.3 5.3 Shreveport, LA Important Phone Numbers G 03 Breia Torrens 5-5 Sr. 10.1 2.7 Louisville, KY Athletics Office 502-272-8381 G 04 Tasia Jeffries 5-7 Sr. 11.3 2.3 Louisville, KY Sports Information Office 502-272-8079 G 22 Kathleen Scott 5-8 Jr. 5.0 3.7 Mt. Washington, KY WBB SID - Adam Pruiett, cell 502-889-0466 Head Coach: Chancellor Dugan, 9th year at Bellarmine (143-94 record at Bellarmine, 463-384 career) Twitter/Instagram @BUKnightsWBB/buwbbteam Stetson (3-4, 1-1 ASUN) Ht. Yr. PPG RPG Hometown F 00 Day’Neshia Banks 5-10 Sr. 11.6 5.7 Jacksonville, FL 2020-21 SCHEDULE C 23 Megan Vincent 6-4 Sr. 3.8 3.2 Keller, TX G 11 Tippy Robertson 5-3 So. 7.1 3.4 Chicago, IL Date Opponent Time December G 13 Yazz Wazeerud-Din 5-11 Jr. 12.4 3.4 Marietta, GA Mon. 14 BALL STATE L 42-98 G 33 Maddie Novak 6-0 So. 7.6 2.1 Oxford, MI Wed. 16 at Western Kentucky L 49-82 Head Coach: Lynn Bria, 13th year at Stetson (225-167 record at Stetson, 378-380 career) Sat. 19 WESTERN ILLINOIS L 57-79 Tues. 29 at Evansville L 62-72 January Sat. 2 at No. 2 Louisville L 46-97 QUICK SHOTS KNIGHT INSIGHTS Sat. 9 at Lipscomb* L 72-84 Sun. 10 at Lipscomb* L 58-65 Site: Edmunds Center (4,000); DeLand, FL • Bellarmine is the newest member of the ASUN Sat. 16 FLORIDA GULF COAST* L 58-81 Series: First meetings Conference and officially gained entrance to the Sun. 17 FLORIDA GULF COAST* L 52-81 Watch: ESPN+ league on July 1. Sat. 23 at Stetson* 1 PM Radio: WXVW 1450 AM/96.1 FM (Sat.); WGTK • Bellarmine’s entrance to the ASUN is actually a Sun. 24 at Stetson* 1 PM return for Coach Chancellor Dugan. She was the Sat. 30 KENNESAW STATE* 2 PM AM 970 (Sun.); Jack Kizer, play-by-play Sun. 31 KENNESAW STATE* 2 PM Next BU Games: Jan. 30-31 vs. Kennesaw State; head coach at former league member Florida February Freedom Hall; Louisville, KY Atlantic for 13 seasons before taking over the Sat. 6 at Jacksonville* 1 PM Knights, leading the team to the 2006 ASUN Sun. 7 at Jacksonville* 1 PM Tournament title and an NCAA Tournament bid. Sat. 13 NORTH FLORIDA* 2 PM WARM-UPS • Breia Torrens was among 10 selected for the Sun. 14 NORTH FLORIDA* 2 PM ASUN’s Preseason All-Conference Team. In ad- Sat. 20 at North Alabama* 3 PM The Bellarmine University women’s basketball Sun. 21 at North Alabama* 3 PM dition, the senior guard was nominated as both Sat. 27 LIBERTY* 2 PM team is set for its third weekend of ASUN action ASUN Preseason Player of the Year and ASUN Sun. 28 LIBERTY* 2 PM as the Knights will travel to Florida to meet Stet- Preseason Defensive Player of the Year. Torrens March son in DeLand on Saturday and Sunday. was a first-team All-GLVC selection last season. 9-14 ASUN Championship • Torrens returned to the lineup Dec. 19 against While Bellarmine had its season opener post- * - ASUN game Western Illinois after missing the team’s first two poned nearly three weeks for pandemic-related All Times ET games and scored a game-high 19 points. With reasons, the Knights have not had a pause 816 career points heading into the weekend, since, including in league competition. she’s within striking distance of becoming the 29th member of the program’s 1,000-point club Bellarmine hosted its first-ever ASUN games last this season. weekend when the Knights welcomed peren- • Junior forward Sheniqua Coatney, a transfer nial conference power Florida Gulf Coast to from Louisiana-Monroe, made her first career Freedom Hall. The Knights fell 81-58 and 81-52, starts at Bellarmine last weekend against Florida and while the scores were similar, Bellarmine’s Gulf Coast. Coatney grabbed eight rebounds in better effort came in the first contest against the Eagles. The Knights trailed only 17-14 after the the first game against the Eagles and paced the first quarter, took a lead early in the second pe- Knights with 12 points on 5-for-6 shooting in the riod and were within a respectable 11 with less second contest. than two minutes remaining in the third stanza • Freshman forward Lucy Robertson had the top before FGCU pulled away for good. performance of her young career in the second game against FGCU. She scored a season-high In the second game against the Eagles, FGCU 11 points in just 10 minutes on the strength of ran away from the Knights early, building a 22-4 9-of-10 shooting from the charity stripe. lead after the first quarter and never looking • Bellarmine canned 15 of its 16 free-throw back thereafter. One encouraging sign for Bel- attempts in its second outing against FGCU. larmine was its freshmen played the majority of The Knights enter the weekend ranked second the minutes in the fourth quarter and outscored in the ASUN in free-throw percentage at 74.3. FGCU 19-16. Senior guard Tasia Jeffries is a perfect 10-for-10 on the season, while Torrens is 11-for-12. Stetson has had its last two conference series • Before entering Division I, Bellarmine made 16 — against North Alabama and Liberty — post- appearances in the NCAA II Tournament. The poned. The Hatters last played Jan. 3, posting a Knights advanced to the Final Four in 1994, also 78-76 overtime win at North Florida. the fourth of their four Elite Eights. 2020-21 BELLARMINE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 2020-21 Stetson Hatters Women’s Basketball Roster NO. NAME POS. HT. YR. HOMETOWN / HIGH SCHOOL / PREVIOUS SCHOOL 00 Day’Neshia Banks F 5-10 Sr. Jacksonville, Fla. / Ribault HS / Ole Miss 1 Shamari Tyson G 5-5 Jr. Fort Wayne, Ind. / South Side HS / South Georgia Technical College 2 Tonysha Curry G 5-10 Sr. Louisville, Ky. / Manual HS / Florida SouthWestern State 3 Maria Visone G 5-8 Jr. Naples, Italy / IMG Academy / Coastal Carolina 4 Jamiya Turner G 5-9 So. Orlando, Fla. / Jones HS 11 Tippy Robertson G 5-3 So. Chicago, Ill. / Phillips Academy HS 13 Yazz Wazeerud-Din G 5-11 Jr. Marietta, Ga. / Wheeler HS / South Georgia Technical College 14 Kiya Turner G 5-6 So. St. Augustine, Fla. / Nease HS / Middle Tennessee State 21 Alyssa Derrick G 5-9 So. Daytona Beach, Fla. / Spruce Creek HS 22 Shania Edgecombe F 6-1 So. Jacksonville, Fla. / Jean Ribault HS / Southern Miss 23 Megan Vincent F 6-4 Sr. Keller, Texas / Keller HS 33 Maddie Novak G 6-0 So. Oxford, Mich. / Detroit Country Day HS McKenna Eddings F 5-11 Fr. Williamsburg, Va. / Warhill HS BELLARMINE JOINS DIVISION I Head Coach: Lynn Bria | Assistant Coaches: Barbara Farris, Shanasa Sanders, Jama Sharp On July 1, 2020, Bellarmine University celebrat- ed the elevation of its athletics program from NCAA Division II to NCAA Division I, making Bellarmine the only private DI university in Ken- tucky and one of only a handful of DI Catholic universities in the South. All 22 of the Knights’ varsity sports programs now compete in Division I, including 17 in the ASUN Conference. Bellarmine’s move to DI was announced in the summer of 2019 as one of the first major initiatives in the university’s strategic plan. ABOUT STETSON Stakeholder studies revealed the university • Like Bellarmine’s previous opponent, Florida Gulf Coast, Stetson has endured a lengthy and its student-athletes were well-poised for DI layoff from competition due to pandemic-related issues before meeting the Knights. The competition. Transitioning to DI extends the uni- Hatters’ last two weekends of ASUN action against North Alabama and Liberty were versity’s geographic reach, supports enrollment growth, improves diversity and achieves better postponed. Stetson hasn’t played since Jan. 3, a 78-76 overtime victory at North Florida. gender balance. Increased exposure enhances The win over the Ospreys came in the opening weekend of conference play. Stetson did institutional awareness and expands partnership a commendable job of regrouping after North Florida had defeated the Hatters 90-73 the opportunities. previous day. The resilient effort allowed Stetson to snap a three-game losing streak. It was a dramatic win for the Hatters, as Yazz Wazeerud-Din split two UNF defenders and Bellarmine teams in the following 17 sports will flipped an underhand shot up off the glass and in at the buzzer for the game-winning bas- compete in the ASUN, beginning in the 2020-21 academic year: baseball, men’s and women’s ket.