Terriers Welcome Marist to The Roof Saturday
December 11, 2009 | Women's Basketball
Dec. 11, 2009
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BOSTON - Following a three-game road stretch, the Boston University women’s basketball team (3-5) returns to the confines of Case Gymnasium to host Marist (4-4) on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. The Terriers will be looking to end a two-game skid, while the Red Foxes are coming off an overtime loss to No. 16 Oklahoma.
THE TERRIERS: The Terriers enter Saturday’s showdown after a three-game tour of the Ivy League, where they went 1-2 with their lone victory coming against Brown, 87-58, during that stretch. In those three contests a trio of underclassmen shined as sophomore Alex Young strung together a series of impressive scoring performances, averaging 20.3 ppg against the Ivy League. Freshmen Chantell Alford and Caitlynn Moran tallied 13.0 and 12.3 ppg, respectively, during that time frame.
For the season, Young is the team’s leading scorer with 14.3 ppg, while Moran and Alford are close behind with 13.8 and 10.9 ppg, respectively. Sophomore Caroline Stewart is the squad’s top rebounder with 6.0 rpg and senior Aly Hinton has also been a presence on the boards with 5.8 rpg.
BU is shooting .390 from the field and .288 from behind the arc, while it has averaged 37.6 rpg.
THE RED FOXES: Marist is coming off an impressive showing against the 16th-ranked Sooners. The Red Foxes led by as many as 10 points in the second half, but Oklahoma came back to push the game into overtime, where it went on to claim the nine-point victory. In the game, Marist’s all-time leading scorer Rachele Fitz scored her 2,000th point as a Red Fox, backed by a team-high 25 points. For the season, Fitz is averaging 22.1 ppg to rank in the top 10 in the nation in scoring. She is shooting .634 from the field to rank eighth, while also leading the team in rebounding (8.4 rpg). Erica Allenspach and Corielle Yarde are also averaging double figures with 13.6 ppg and 10.1, rpg.
Marist has been strong from the free throw line this season to rank second in the NCAA with an 81.3 average from the charity stripe. In addition, the Red Foxes have not turned the ball over very often with just 14.6 miscues per game to rank 12th in the country.
LAST TIME OUT VS. MARIST (Dec. 13, 2008): Marist’s Rachele Fitz netted 24 of her game-high 28 points in the second half to lead Marist to a 73-62 victory over BU on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 at the McCann Center. Jesyka Burks-Wiley led with a team-high 17 points, while Christine Kinneary recorded a double-double with 15 points and a career-high 11 rebounds. The Terriers outscored the Red Foxes 16-10 off turnovers and put up 16 second-chance points to Marist’s nine, however, the home squad got 30 points in the paint and 13 from its bench. After holding Fitz to just four points in the first half, the Red Foxes’ leading scorer exploded for 24 second-half points to finish with a game-high 28. Burks-Wiley was 6-fo-17 from the field and brought down five boards, while Kinneary was 3-for-10 and made eight free throws. Also reaching double figures was Kristi Dini, a Putnam Valley, N.Y. native, who chipped in 13 points in front of a large contingent of family and friends who made the short trek to Poughkeepsie.
LAST TIME OUT (Yale: Dec 9, 2009): Freshman Caitlynn Moran scored 18 points - 14 in the second half alone - and sophomore Alex Young netted 11; however, BU fell, 61-57, on Wednesday night. It was a tightly contested match-up with both teams remaining within either one or two possessions for the majority of the game and BU took an eight-point lead with seven minutes remaining in the game. However, a resilient Yale side chipped away at the deficit and reclaimed the lead with less than two minutes remaining to hold on for the slim four-point victory.
Moran led the way with 18 points on 4-for-10 shooting and a career-high nine made free throws. She also tied sophomore Caroline Stewart with a team-high seven boards. Classmate Chantell Alford also reached double figures with 10 points to go along with four steals. Yale made it to the free throw line a total of 33 times, and it accounted for 21 of its points, while it also shot 36 percent for the game from the field. BU shot 38 percent from the field and 68 percent from the charity stripe.
BU VS. MARIST: The Terriers lead the Red Foxes, 3-2, in the all-time series record; however, Marist has won two of the last three contests, including last year’s 63-62 victory in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. At Case Gym, BU is 2-0 against the Red Foxes, but have not faced off with them at The Roof since the 2004-05 season – BU’s last victory over the squad.
BU VS. THE MAAC: The Terriers own a 16-7 (.696) advantage over Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) opponents all-time, and have faced a MAAC team in each of the last five seasons. BU owns winning records over five of the seven teams it has faced in the league.
BU’S RECORD VS. MAAC SCHOOLS:
Canisius (1-1)
Fairfield (3-3)
Iona (1-0)
Loyola (0-0)
Manhattan (1-0)
Marist (3-2)
Niagara (2-0)
Rider (0-0)
Saint Peter’s (0-0)
Siena (5-1)
ALFORD, MORAN EARN BACK-TO-BACK AE ROOKIES OF THE WEEK: Freshman Caitlynn ‘Mo’ Moran earned the Boston University women’s basketball team’s first America East weekly honor, as she was named the league’s Rookie of the Week after posting a career-high 24 points in the Terriers’ 83-78 win over Northeastern last week. The conference made the announcement on Monday, Nov. 30. Classmate Chantell Alford received the honor a week later, after pouring in 14.5 points per game in two contests last week. At Harvard on Sunday, the West Haven, Conn., native netted a career-best 19 points to go along with three steals.
TERRIERS IN THE AMERICA EAST: The women’s basketball team ranks in the top three in the America East statistics in seven categories, while individually, the Terriers rank in the top 10 in 11 categories.
BU IN THE TOP THREE:
Scoring Offense: 3rd, 67.0 ppg
Free Throw Percentage: T-2nd, .693
Field Goal Percentage: 3rd, .388
3-Point Field Goal Percentage Defense: 3rd, .267
Blocked Shots: T-2nd, 3.9 pg
Assists: 3rd, 13.3 pg
Defensive Rebounds: 3rd, 25.8 pg
TERRIERS IN THE TOP 10:
Scoring: Alex Young (6th, 14.3 ppg); Caitlynn Moran (9th, 13.8 ppg)
Field Goal Percentage: Caroline Stewart (2nd, .528); Young (10th, .441)
Assists: Moran (4th, 3.9 pg)
Free Throw Percentage: Chantell Alford (2nd, .889)
Steals: Moran (4th, 2.4 pg)
3-Point Field Goal Percentage: Moran (2nd, .423); Young (6th, .367)
3-Point Field Goals Made: Moran (T-9th, 1.4 pg); Young (T-9th, 1.4 pg)
Blocked Shots: Kerry Cashman (3rd, 1.5 pg); Alford (5th, 1.3 pg)
Assist/Turnover Ratio: Moran (5th, 1.2)
Defensive Rebounds: Stewart (T-8th, 3.9 pg); Aly Hinton (T-8th, 3.9 pg); Moran (10th, 3.8 pg)
Minutes Played: Moran (6th, 35.8 pg)
