Nov. 21, 2007
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The Boston University women's basketball team will travel to Greensboro, N.C., on Friday, Nov. 23 and Saturday, Nov. 24 for the UNC-Greensboro tournament. The Terriers will face host-school UNCG on Friday at 1:00 p.m. and either UNC-Asheville or North Carolina A&T on Saturday. BU enters the weekend tourney with a 3-1 overall record, following its come-from-behind victory against Northeastern on Monday.
THE TERRIERS: BU most recently defeated Northeastern, 94-84, at Case Gym on Monday evening. Aly Hinton posted 35 points in 27 minutes to become the first player since Katie Meinhardt on March 11, 2005 to score 30 or more points in a single game. The Terriers also got big games out of Kasey Devine (17 points), Corinne Jean (15 points) and Christine Kinneary (14 assists). Kinneary's 14 hand outs tied a single-game school record.
The Terriers currently lead all America East schools in scoring with 77.2 points per game - 8.5 more points per game than Hartford, which is second. BU is also the only AE school shooting above .800 from the free throw line. It has hit 66-of-77 attempts from the charity stripe.
Hinton leads all America East athletes in free throw percentage after going 17-for-17 in the first four games. Kinneary has dished out nearly twice as many assists as any other player in the conference with 8.0 per game. Maine's Kristin Baker is the closest with 4.33 per game.
SCOUTING THE FIELD:
UNC-Greensboro: The Spartans are winless in their first three games of the season, as they have faced NC State, Liberty and No. 9 Duke. In the season opener, UNCG dropped a 74-29 decision to the Wolfpack, before falling to the Flames, 62-44, and the ninth-ranked Blue Devils, 84-39.
Gini Grimsley leads the squad with 5.0 points per game, while Jasmine Dixon owns a team-high 4.0 rebounds per game.
North Carolina A&T: The Aggies (2-1) picked up wins against Stetson, 78-60, and Elon, 53-46, while dropping their home opener to Liberty, 68-64.
North Carolina A&T has three players averaging double figures with Ta'Wuana Cook leading the charge with 14.7 ppg, followed by Amber Bland (11.0 ppg) and Brittany Taylor-James (10.7 ppg). Bland is also the team's leading rebounder with 7.3 rpg.
The Aggies have outscored their opponents by an average of 7.0 ppg and are averaging 11.7 steals per game.
UNC-Asheville: With wins over Montreat, Gardner-Webb and Furman, the Bulldogs enter this weekend's tournament with a 3-1 overall record. Their only loss came against Davidson on Nov. 16.
UNC-Asheville is led by Ashton Barton and Ana Baker on the offensive front. Barton leads the team with 17.3 points per game, followed by Baker with 10.0 ppg. Defensively, Baker has recorded a team-high 20 steals and Stacey Shepard has swatted away 12 shots, also a team best.
BU VS. THE FIELD: The Terriers have only faced one team participating in the tournament - North Carolina A&T. BU faced the Aggies on Dec. 27, 1984, claiming a 69-57 victory in the Queens Holiday Classic.
BU VS. THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE: BU has a short history with the Southern Conference, owning a 1-1 all-time record against the league. The Terriers faced off with Georgia Southern on Nov. 18, 2001 in a 75-55 win, and lost to Davidson, 61-57, on Dec. 5, 1999.
BU VS. THE MEAC: BU is 7-1 all-time against Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference schools. Its most recent meeting with a MEAC foe was on Dec. 30 in a 70-65 win over Florida A&M during head coach Kelly Greenberg's first season at the helm.
This year, the Terriers could face off with one more competitor from the conference as Morgan State will be participating in the VCU tourney along with BU, host VCU and Georgia Southern from Dec. 27-28.
BU vs. the MEAC:
Bethune-Cookman (0-0)
Coppin State (0-0)
Delaware State (2-0)
Florida A&M (1-0)
Hampton (0-0)
Howard (0-1)
Md. Eastern Shore (2-0)
Morgan State (1-0)
North Carolina A&T (1-0)
South Carolina State (0-0)
BU VS. THE BIG SOUTH: Among the schools in the Big South Conference, BU has faced just one. It defeated Liberty on Dec. 8, 1988, claiming a 73-62 victory.
NEXT TIME OUT: Following this weekend's tourney, BU will return home to host Atlantic 10 opponent Massachusetts on Nov. 28 at 7:00 p.m. for its final home game of 2007.
REACHING NEW HEIGHTS: In each of BU's first four games this season, a different Terrier has recorded a career high. Kasey Devine accomplished the feat in the season opener at Siena (18 points) and Christine Kinneary followed suit against Rhode Island (17 points). Most recently, Cheri Raffo posted 23 versus No. 16 Ohio State, and Aly Hinton tallied 35 versus Northeastern.
HINTON SOARS VERSUS NORTHEASTERN: Aly Hinton scored an impressive 35 points in 27 minutes versus NU on Nov. 19 at Case Gym. She is the first Terrier since Katie Meinhardt on March 11, 2005 to reach 30 or more points in a single game.
KINNEARY TIES SINGLE-GAME RECORD FOR ASSISTS: On Nov. 19, Christine Kinneary tied a single-game school record for assists (14) with Andrea Higgins, who set the mark on Feb. 19, 1993. Kinneary is the first Terrier to record over 10 assists since Rachel Vanderwal dished out 10 versus Binghamton on Jan. 8, 2005.
Kinneary tallied a team-high 92 assists in 30 games last season - good for seventh in the conference. She has picked up where she left off, opening the season with a team-high five hand outs at Siena. She has already dished 32 assists in two games - a team and conference high.
ONE MORE MINUTE: Cheri Raffo is just one minute shy of breaking into the top ten for minutes played in a career, having seen action in 2,916 over four seasons. In 2005-06, the Morristown, N.J., native played in 1,018 minutes to land in fourth for minutes played in a season.
IT'S A LONG DECEMBER: Beginning with its Dec. 1 contest at St. John's, Boston University will spend the entire month of December on the road. The game against the Red Storm will kick off a six-game road stretch that culminates with a Dec. 30 contest at Kansas. BU will also take part in the Virginia Commonwealth University tournament in Richmond, Va., from Dec. 27-28, along with host VCU, Morgan State and Georgia Southern.
In addition to those games, BU will face Brown on Dec. 5 and Harvard on Dec. 11.
COUNTDOWN TO 1,000: Cheri Raffo is currently 162 points away from reach the 1,000-point plateau. If she keeps her scoring average at 11.0 ppg, she could reach the milestone at the beginning of the conference season.
OFFENSIVE LEADERS ABOUND: The Terriers have been led by a different scorer in each of the last six games dating back to last season.
Amarachi Umez-Eronini led with a career-high 22 points versus Binghamton on Feb. 28, 2007, and Katie Meinhardt was the leading scorer for BU against Binghamton in the AE tourney with 25 points.
This season, Kasey Devine and Jesyka Burks-Wiley tipped off the season with 18 points apiece at Siena, and Christine Kinneary turned in a career night with 17 points versus Rhode Island. Cheri Raffo posted a career-high 23 points against No. 16 Ohio State on Nov. 17, and most recently, Aly Hinton netted a career-best 35 points versus Northeastern.
