Saluki Women’s Basketball 2017-18 Saluki Women’s Basketball 2017-18 Contact: Will Becque | Office: (618) 453-5470 | Cell: (618) 559-2624 | Email: [email protected] Northern Iowa at Southern Illinois 2017-18 Schedule EXHIBITIONS Jan. 5 • Carbondale, Ill. • SIU Arena Oct. 28 VS KY. WESLEYAN W, 89-41 Nov. 3 VS LU-BELLEVILLE W, 90-68 REGULAR SEASON Nov. 10 VS UT-MARTIN W, 84-72 Nov. 13 AT UAB L, 66-76 Nov. 19 AT MEMPHIS W, 68-56 7-6, 2-0 Missouri Valley 6-7, 2-0 Missouri Valley Nov. 22 AT SEMO W,79-74 (OT) Nov. 27 VS SIUE L, 53-57 Head Coach ..................................... Cindy Stein Head Coach ..................................Tanya Warren Nov. 30 AT MOREHEAD STATE L, 81-85 Record at SIU/year ..........................65-72/5 Record at UNI/year ...................192-146/11 Dec. 2 AT MARSHALL W, 64-59 Overall Record/year ..................347-278/21 Overall Record/year ..................192-146/11 Dec. 7 VS MARTIN METHODIST W, 60-50 2017-18 MVC STANDINGS Dec. 10 VS W. KENTUCKY L, 49-75 MVC Overall SAN JUAN TOURNAMENT Team Record Pct Record Pct Streak Dec. 19 VS ALBANY L, 57-68 Southern Illinois 2-0 1.000 7-6 0.538 W2 Dec. 20 VS MIAMI (FL.) L, 65-75 Drake 2-0 1.000 7-7 0.500 W2 Dec. 29 AT EVANSVILLE W, 74-62 Missouri State 2-0 1.000 6-7 0.462 W2 Dec. 31 AT INDIANA STATE W, 64-45 UNI 2-0 1.000 6-7 0.462 W3 Jan. 5 VS NORTHERN IOWA 6 PM Bradley 1-0 1.000 7-5 0.583 W2 Jan. 7 VS DRAKE UNIVERSITY 2 PM Illinois State 0-1 0.000 6-6 0.500 L1 Jan. 12 AT BRADLEY UNIVERSITY 7 PM Valparaiso 0-2 0.000 7-6 0.538 L2 Jan. 14 AT ILLINOIS STATE 2 PM Evansville 0-2 0.000 3-10 0.231 L4 Jan. 19 VS LOYOLA 6 PM Indiana State 0-2 0.000 2-11 0.154 L7 Jan. 21 VS VALPARAISO 11:30 AM Loyola 0-2 0.000 2-11 0.154 L2 Jan. 26 VS MISSOURI STATE 6 PM Feb. 2 AT DRAKE UNIVERSITY 7 PM SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NOTES Feb. 4 AT NORTHERN IOWA 2 PM Series History in 13 games this season. Feb. 9 VS ILLINOIS STATE 6 PM The Salukis and the Panthers will meet for the Feb. 11 VS BRADLEY 11:30 AM 71st time on Friday, with UNI holding a 37-33 Current Salukis vs. the Panthers advantage in the all-time series. Southern snapped Kylie Giebelhausen will play her ninth career game Feb. 16 AT VALPARAISO 7 PM a three-game losing streak to UNI a year ago against the Panthers, a team that she has struggled Feb. 18 AT LOYOLA 1 PM when it overcame a 15-point deficit to down the against during her stellar career. Giebelhausen Feb. 23 AT MISSOURI STATE 7 PM Panthers, 64-59, inside the SIU Arena. SIU holds comes into Friday’s contest with a 29.8% (14- Mar. 1 VS INDIANA STATE 6 PM an 18-15 record against the Panthers at home, of-47) lifetime shooting percentage against UNI, Mar. 3 VS EVANSVILLE 2 PM having won two of the last three meetings on its and has connected on just 5-of-23 (21.7%) of MVC TOURNAMENT home floor. Four Salukis scored in double figures her attempts from behind the arc. The East Peoria, in last year’s win led by Kylie Giebelhausen’s 17 Ill. native has only once reached double figures Mar. 8-11MVC Tournament TBA points. against the Panthers, when she poured in 17 points on 54.5% shooting to lead the Salukis to a Scouting the Panthers 64-59 win at home a year ago. Her 4.8 points per The Panthers come into Friday’s showdown with a game average against the Panthers is the lowest deceiving 6-7 overall record. UNI has won three- for her against any Valley school. straight, beginning with a 72-71 win at Kansas SALUKI MEDIA SERVICES State. The Panthers downed Loyola and Valpo to Former Assistant Mail Code 6620 open Valley play, with UNI winning by an average UNI head coach Tanya Warren was an assistant on Room 118, Lingle Hall - SIU Arena of 25 points per game in its two MVC victories. Cindy Stein’s coaching staff at Missouri, where the Carbondale, IL 62901 Megan Maahs is nearly averaging a double-double two coached together from 2001-04. During that Phone: 618/453.7236 for the Panthers at 10.5 points and 9.8 rebounds stretch, the Tigers made the postseason all three Fax: 618/453.2648 per game. Kennedy Kirkpatrick leads UNI in scoring seasons, including a trip to the NCAA Tournament Tickets: 618/453.2000 at 12.1 points per game while the Panthers have during the 2003-04 season. Warren was 0-1 in SIUSalukis.com had six different players lead the team in scoring her playing career against SIU while at Creighton, @SIU_WBasketball | Saluki Women’s Basketball | SIUSalukis.com 1 Saluki Women’s Basketball 2017-18 ROSTER # Name Pos. Ht. Cl. Hometown High School 3 Olivia Bowling G 5-9 Jr. New Haven, Ky. Elizabethtown 10 Brittney Patrick G 5-6 So. Bolingbrook, Ill. Bolingbrook 12 Makenzie Silvey G 5-11 Fr. Glen Carbon, Ill. Edwardsville 15 Caitlyn Claussen G/F 6-0 So. Manhattan, Kan. Wamego 22 Tiajaney Hawkins G/F 5-10 RS-So. E. Chicago, Ind. E. Chicago Central 23 Kristen Nelson G 5-9 So. Farmington Hills, Mich. Harrison 24 Criste’On Waters F 6-1 RS-Fr. Edwardsville, Ill. Edwardsville 25 Abby Brockmeyer F 6-1 Fr. Raymond, Ill. Lincolnwood 31 Lauren Hartman F/C 6-3 So. Tremont, Ill. Tremont 32 Kylie Giebelhausen G/F 6-1 Sr. East Peoria, Ill. East Peoria 33 Rachel Pudlowski F 5-11 Fr. O’Fallon, Mo. Fort Zumwalt 34 Nicole Martin F/C 6-1 So. Jefferson City, Mo. Jefferson City 35 Celina VanHyfte F/C 6-0 RS-Jr. Annawan, Ill. Annawan 42 Ashley Hummel F/C 6-1 Jr. Hilliard, Ohio Hilliard Bradley HS Coaches: Cindy Stein - Head Coach (5th year) Christelle N’Garsanet - Associate Head Coach (5th year) Amanda Hanneman - Assistant Coach (3rd year) PRONUNCIATIONS Christelle N’Garsanet ..... en-GAR-suh-nay Nicole Collier – Assistant Coach (2nd year) Kylie Giebelhausen ........ GABE-el-HOW-sen Adesuwa ....................... uh-DESS-uh-wuh Adesuwa Ebomwonyi - Director of Operations (3rd year) Ebomwonyi ................... eh-bum-WON-yee Ryann Bowser - Grad. Asst. Video Coordinator (1st year) Tiajaney Hawkins .......... tee-AHH-zhuh-nay Celina VanHyfte ............. Van Heff-tee Pudlowski ...................... Puh-lusk-ee SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NOTES but has fared much better since taking the reigns 19, 2005), Creighton’s Kelsey Woodard (Feb. 4, blocks in a game, set just over 18 years ago on at UNI. Warren, the longest tenured coach in the 2008), Garrison (Jan. 19, 2009) and Evansville’s Dec. 29, 1999 at Indiana State when Southern MVC, holds an .818% winning percentage (18-4) Hannah Noe (Nov. 13, 2017) as the only players also recorded 11 blocks. It’s the most blocked against the Salukis, with three of SIU’s four wins to earn both awards since the conference began shots by a Valley team this season, and marks just against Warren’s Panthers coming during Stein’s giving out the Newcomer of the Week award prior the fourth time in program history that SIU has tenure as head coach. Warren holds a 7-4 all- to the 2003-04 season. turned aside 10-plus shots, all of which have come time edge against her former boss dating back to during league play. Stein’s days at Missouri. Newcomer of the Week Continued Brockmeyer earned her third Newcomer of the Opponent Date Blocks Brockmeyer named both MVC Player Week honor of the season after she helped SIU to at Indiana State 12/29/99 11 and Newcomer of the Week a 2-0 start in Valley play. It’s the most Newcomer at Indiana State 12/31/17 11 Abby Brockmeyer became just the fifth player in of the Week honors earned by a Saluki in a At Evansville 1/15/11 10 conference history to earn both honors in the same single season since the 2009-10 season, when Illinois State 1/27/11 10 week and the first to do so in program history. She Stephany Neptune was named Newcomer of the averaged 21.5 points, 11.0 rebounds, 2.5 blocks Week five times. Brockmeyer joins Neptune and More Blocks and 2.0 steals to help guide the Salukis to a pair Carlai Moore, who earned three Newcomer of Brockmeyer’s career-high four blocks are tied for of MVC road victories. Her 43 combined points in the Week honors during the 2005-06 season, as the third-most in the Valley this season. Both SIU’s two wins are the most of any Valley player the only Salukis to earn three or more in a single Hannah Green (Illinois State) and Caitlin Morrison through two conference games this season and season in program history. (Valpo) have turned aside five in a game this are the most by a freshmen to start Valley play in season. program history. Tied a School Record SIU recorded a season-high 11 blocks in the RPI Ranking Brockmeyer is the fifth player in MVC history, and 64-45 win over Indiana State on Dec. 31, with According to warrennolan.com, SIU’s RPI ranking the second this season, to earn both weekly honors six different Salukis tallying at least one block.