BOSTON—The Boston University women’s basketball team welcomes Bucknell to Case Gym on Saturday, Feb. 20 as the Terriers celebrate Senior Day, honoring Clodagh Scannell and Troi Melton prior to the start of the game. Tip off is set for 2 p.m. and will be aired live on the Patriot League Network.

In addition to National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Saturday also marks BU’s Autism Awareness game. The Terriers are holding a jersey raffle with all proceeds being donated to Autism Speaks.

BU is partnering with Coaches Powering Forward for Autism, an organization the benefits Autism Speaks to help raise awareness. Coaches Powering Forward for Autism was created in 2014 after NCAA Coaches Pat Skerry and Tom Herrion embarked on a mission to raise awareness of autism. Inspired by their sons, both diagnosed with autism, they made a simple request to fellow coaches: Wear the Autism Speaks blue puzzle piece pin during televised games the first weekend of February. In an overwhelming response, more than 82 NCAA coaches and broadcasters took to the sidelines and airwaves throughout the weekend wearing the pin.

QUICK HITS
-Meghan Doogan showed her shooting prowess in a break-out game against Colgate on Wednesday night, shattering her previous career-high and scoring 23 points in the win.
-Sarah Hope’s heroics against Navy was named the SportsCenter Top-10 No. 1 play of the night. It is the first time the Terriers have made ESPN’s nightly top plays in program history and the second time BU basketball was the No. 1 play on SC top-10 last week.
-Hope matched the school single-game record in 3-pointers made with 7 against URI. The junior ranks fifth all-time at BU in career triples with 162.
-Meghan Green currently leads the team in scoring and rebounding with 10.6 points per game and 5.4 boards per game this season.
-BU enters its 3rd season in the PL and 2nd under the command of head coach Katy Steding.
-BU returns nine players from the 2014-15 season and added five during the off-season.
-The captains are Clodagh Scannell, Courtney Latham, Sarah Hope and Corrine Williams.
-Six players who started 12 or more games returned for the 2015-16 season.

LAST TIME OUT
-The Terriers had a dominant win on the road against Colgate on Wednesday night, defeating the Raiders, 71-58, to give head coach Katy Steding her first-ever win on an opponent’s court.
-Sophomore Meghan Doogan had an outstanding game against the Raiders, more than doubling her previous career-high with 23 points. She shot 5-of-8 from beyond the arc.
-In total, four Terriers scored in double figures, led by Troi Melton (12 pts, 11 reb) and Courtney Latham (11 pts, 11 reb), who each recorded a double-double. Corrine Williams scored 11 points on the night.
-With 20 points in the first quarter, BU had its best start to a game this season. The Terriers also held the Raiders to 28.8 percent shooting, the first time BU kept an opponent below 30 percent from the field so far this year.

A TERRIER WIN WOULD...
-Be the first time BU recorded consecutive wins with Coach Steding at the helm.
-Improve BU to 3-11 at home.
-Snap a four-game skid against the Bison.

THE SERIES
-Bucknell leads the all-time series, 1-4, and has won the last four contests.
-BU had never met with the Bison prior to entering the Patriot League and its only win against Bucknell came in the pair’s very first contest on Jan. 25, 2014.

THE TERRIERS
-After starting the season on a 15-game skid, BU has gone 3-7 over the last 10 games.
-Sarah Hope has been a consistent threat for the Terriers from beyond the arc, averaging 2.4 triples per game this season. She is second on the team in scoring, averaging 8.3 points per game.
-After missing a game due to injury for the first time in her career, Meghan Green returned against Marist and led the team with 22 points, one shy of her career high. Since then she has had eight more games in double-digit scoring and currently leads the team with 10.6 ppg and 5.4 rpg.
-Kara Sheftic has picked her game up since the start of conference play and has scored in double-digits in six of the last 14 games. She is averaging 8.6 points per game and a team-high 5.8 rebounds per game in Patriot League contests.
-BU returns nine players from the 2014-15 season and adds five newcomers to this year’s squad.

THE BISON
-BU gave the Bison a run for their money during their first meeting earlier this season but Bucknell, who is tied for first in the Patriot League, used a second-half surge to escape the Terriers.
-The Bison dominate on the boards, averaging 40.8 per game and allowing opponents to a PL-best 31.4 rebounds per game. Bucknell shoots 42.2 percent overall, the second best mark in the conference, and also is the second-best at limiting opponent offenses, allowing its foes to just 36.8 percent shooting from the field.
-Bucknell is one of the worst teams in the conference in steals, averaging just 6.6 per game. The Bison also rank last in the conference in turnover margin, committing nearly four more than their opponents each game this year.
-Jacquie Koltz ranks second in the Patriot League with an average of 16.1 points per game. She also is second in rebounding, averaging 10.1 per game and is one of just two PL players to average a double-double at this point in the season. She ranks third in three-point shooting behind Army’s Kelsey Minato (3.0 3FG/game) and BU’s Sarah Hope (2.4 3FG/game).

GLIMMER OF HOPE
-Junior guard Sarah Hope came up clutch against Navy, hitting the game-winner at the buzzer to give BU its second win of the season. She was also an important factor in BU’s win over American, scoring 11 points against the Eagles.
-Hope has been hot from long range this season, averaging 2.4 of BU’s 4.5 3-pointers per game. Her season total of 61 triples is the second-best total in the Patriot League.
-Currently, her career total of 162 makes from beyond the arc places her at fifth in the BU record book. To reach the fourth-most career 3-pointers in BU history, the junior needs to make 10 more from long range. The top spot on the list is currently held by Chantell Alford, who made 244 shots from beyond the arc from 2009-2013.
-Against Lehigh, Hope went a perfect 5-for-5, her 3rd game with five or more makes from the 3-point line this season.
-She matched the school record and set a new personal best against Rhode Island when she netted seven 3-pointers to help her score a career-high 23 points.
-The Medway, Mass. native also scored six 3-pointers against UMass Lowell, tying her previous high.

NATIONAL ATTENTION
-BU was put into the limelight last week as both the men’s and women’s basketball team earned a SportsCenter Top-10 No. 1 pick.
-John Papale started the week off with a buzzer-beating game-winner on Sunday against Lehigh which garnered the No. 1 pick of the night.
-Not to be outdone, fellow three-point shooter Sarah Hope made a nearly identical shot to beat Navy on Thursday night.
-The play was BU women’s basketball’s first to ever make it on the SC Top-10 list.
-BU is also just the second Patriot League women’s basketball team to appear on the program this season with Loyola Md. checking in at No. 10 on Jan. 2.