BU Heads To BC For A Comm. Ave Clash
November 19, 2014 | Women's Basketball
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TODAY'S GAME
The Boston University women's basketball team heads down Commonwealth Ave. for a matchup with Boston College on Thursday night at 7 p.m. in Conte Forum. The Terriers (1-1) have kept it local to open the season, traveling to Northeastern and hosting Harvard over the last week.
THE TERRIERS
BU returns six players and has four new faces this season and is led by the lone senior Mollie McKendrick, who shares captain duties with sophomore Courtney Latham. Troi Melton and Clodagh Scannell are the only other upperclassmen on the squad.
Meghan Green has emerged as one of the team's best scorers, averaging a team-leading 15 points per game. Melton, who is seeing the most minutes of her career thus far, has had a solid start to the season, averaging 8.5 points, three assists and three steals per game.
THE EAGLES
BC is 1-1 going into Thursday's game, beating Saint Mary's after dropping its season opener to No. 6 Stanford. Kelly Hughes and Nicole Boudreau lead the team in points, averaging 14 and 13 points per game, respectively. They are also two of the team's top rebounders, grabbing an average of five or more boards per game.
The Eagles are sharp from long-range, having already netted 20 treys through their first two games. Boudreau is leading their three-point attack, shooting 50 percent from beyond the arc.
THE SERIES
This is the 21st meeting between the two squads and the series is tied at 10-10. BU had a five-game win streak to start the series but the Eagles claimed six straight games between 1990 and 2010. Most recently, BC took a 63-52 victory on their home court last season.
GAME COVERAGE
The game will be streamed live on BCeagles.com, which is free to the public. Fans can also listen live on Terrier Sports Radio Network (GoTerriers.com/TSRN) with Joe Weil and John Michael Sedor on the call. Live stats are available at BCeagles.com and live in-game updates can be found on @BUGameDay.
LAST TIME OUT
The Terriers erased a 17-point deficit to come back and beat Harvard 63-62 on Monday night, led by career-best efforts by Meghan Green (19 points) and Troi Melton (11 points). BU went on a 16-3 run to take the lead with under five minutes remaining, which it never relinquished. With the win, head coach Katy Steding earned her first career victory at the Division I level.
PATRIOT LEAGUE NETWORK
• The Patriot League, in collaboration with Campus Insiders, enters its second season this year.
• The Patriot League will live-stream hundreds of its men and women's sporting events, add studio programming and grow distribution on multiple platforms and devices.
• All BU women's basketball home games, and road conference games that are not part of a television package, will be available to watch for free on the PLN.
A TERRIER WIN WOULD...
...Give BU a winning series record against the Eagles.
...Make BU 2-1 to open the season, the best start since 2012.
...Earn head coach Katy Steding her first career winning record.
KEEPING IT LOCAL
Boston University is making its rounds with the Boston teams, playing all three to start the season. The Terriers started the year at Northeastern, losing a 75-74 heartbreaker before opening their home schedule against Harvard on Monday. BU will finish its tour of Beantown with a stop at Boston College on Friday afternoon.
THE STEDING ERA
• In its second season in a new conference, the Terriers have started yet another new era with the hiring of head coach Katy Steding.
• Steding comes to Boston University after spending the last two seasons as an assistant coach at California. Although this is her first year as a head coach in Division I, Steding spent seven years at the helm of the Warner Pacific College (NAIA) program following an impressive playing career.
• Steding was part of the 1996 "Women's Dream Team" alongside Teresa Edwards, Rebecca Lobo and Sheryl Swoopes, which went 60-0 en route to an Olympic gold medal in the Atlanta Summer Olympics. Prior to her professional career, where she played in both the ABL and WNBA, Steding helped Stanford win its first National Championship and was named the CBS/Chevrolet Player of the Game.
