Women's Basketball Closes Non-Conference Slate at Harvard Friday

Friday, December 21

Cambridge, MA

4 PM

Boston University

Harvard

Photo by: Rich Gagnon/Boston University At

Women's Basketball Closes Non-Conference Slate at Harvard Friday

December 20, 2018 | Women's Basketball

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Women's Basketball (4-5) at Harvard (4-6)
Date & Time	Friday, Dec. 21 \| 4 p.m.
Venue	Cambridge, Mass. \| Lavietes Pavilion
Live Stats	GoCrimson.com
Watch	ESPN+ \| NESN
Twitter	@BUGameDay \| @TerrierWBB
Notes	BU \| Harvard

BOSTON - Closing out the fall semester, the Boston University women's basketball team will head to Harvard on Friday, Dec. 21 for its final non-conference matchup. Opening tip from Lavietes Pavilion is set for 4 p.m. and can be seen live on NESN and ESPN+.

TERRIER TIDBITS

BU saw its road woes continues as it dropped its fifth straight road game at Boston College on Sunday, 78-51.
Payton Hauck posted a team-best 16 points on 6-of-10 shooting.
Lauren Spearman knocked down four 3-pointers for the second straight game and is 8-for-14 from beyond-the-arc during that stretch.
Mackenzie Miers made her first career start and grabbed a career-high eight rebounds.
Spearman has accounted for 29 of the team's 51 makes from beyond-the-arc, good for 56.8 percent.
Katie Nelson leads team with 4.0 assists per game, which ranks second in the league.
Nia Irving leads the team in scoring (13.7), which ranks fifth in the league, and also leads the Terriers in rebounding (7.2).

SCOUTING HARVARD

Riding a three-game losing streak, Harvard holds a 4-6 record, including a 1-3 mark on its home court.
Katie Benzan leads the Crimson in scoring (14.2) and has notched double-digit scoring figures in six straight games.
Jadyn Bush leads the Ivy League in rebounding (9.4) and owns five double-doubles this season.
Bush is Harvard's third-leading scorer (11.6), while Sydney Skinner ranks second in scoring (12.5) and assists per game (3.4).

THE SERIES

Harvard has taken the last three matchups against the Terriers and eight of the last 11.
BU will seek its first win at Harvard since 2005.
The series has gone back-and-forth the last three decades, as neither team has won more than three straight contests.
The Terriers own the longest streak in the series, winning five in-a-row from 1978-86.

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