NOTES: Bulldogs Face Quincy In Key GLVC Matchup

Truman Women's Basketball Notes (December 10)
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Game #10: Truman (4-5; 0-2 GLVC) vs. Quincy (2-7; 0-2 GLVC)
When: Saturday, December 10, 2016 || 1:00 p.m.
Where: Quincy, Illinois || Pepsi Arena
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KIRKSVILLE, Mo. – A huge early season showdown with the Quincy Lady Hawks is the only action for the Truman Women's Basketball team this week. The Bulldogs and Lady Hawks are each searching for their first conference win when they meet on Saturday afternoon in QU's Pepsi Arena.

Both teams came up empty on their trip through the Kansas City area last weekend to open up Great Lakes Valley Conference action. The Bulldogs were defeated by Rockhurst 72-67 and William Jewell 68-63 while the Lady Hawks fell to Rockhurst 76-54 and 61-43 to the Cardinals.

Quincy stepped outside of conference action and won on Tuesday night at home over Hannibal-LaGrange 90-52 behind eight three-pointers by Nikia Edom. The win halted a three-game skid for the Lady Hawks.
Both Truman and Quincy have had plenty of meetings over the past few seasons (eight games over the past three years) but have also had five common opponents this year. The Lady Hawks are 0-5 over Grand Valley State, Northern Michigan, Missouri Southern, William Jewell and Rockhurst while the Bulldogs are 1-4 over the same group with the win coming against Grand Valley State.

Truman is coming off their first empty conference weekend since February of 2015. It was only the second time since joining the league in 2013 that the Bulldogs were winless on a GLVC road trip. The other two winless weekends came on split trips where Truman played at home on one of the two days and went out on the road for the other game. The last time Truman lost both ends of a road trip in conference was on a trip to Bellarmine and Southern Indiana.

After not having any 20+ individual scoring games last season, the Bulldogs already have four nights this year in which either Rachel Edmundson or Cassidy Clark have scored over 20 points. Edmundson scored 27 against Missouri Southern and 20 in the last game against William Jewell and leads Truman in scoring at 13.9 points per game. Clark has the Bulldogs top scoring game at 29 against Emporia State and tallied 23 against Rockhurst last Thursday. Clark is averaging 13.8 points and a team-leading 8.6 rebounds per game. She is fourth in the GLVC in boards per game.

Truman is averaging 73.7 points per game while giving up 65.0. The team is shooting 41% overall, 32% from three with 6.6 three-pointers made per game and 73% from the foul line with 14.7 free throws made per game. Opponents are shooting 39% from the field, 28% from three (5.8/game) and 70% at the line (11.9/game).

Kansas City Blues:
The Bulldogs led by four at the half in both games against Rockhurst and William Jewell but were outscored in both third quarters to fall in both contests…there was a season-high 13 ties and 11 lead changes against the Hawks on Thursday but the Bulldogs were outscored 37-28 in the second half…there was nine ties and nine lead changes against the Cardinals but WJC won the third quarter 23-11 and the second half 42-33…The Bulldogs struggled from three going 6-of-38 on the trip (15%) with freshman Eleanor Lueke knocking down four of the six triples…Lueke was 4-of-9 overall from the arc on the trip…the rest of the team was 2-31 (6%)…Truman also struggled at the line going 26-of-43 (60.5%)…Cassidy Clark and Ashley Hartwig each scored 33 points on the trip and both shot 50% or better…Clark was 14-of-28 (50%) with 7.5 rebounds per game…Hartwig was 12-of-21 (57%), 9-of-10 from the foul line and pulled down nine rebounds per game…Rachel Edmundson averaged 14 points in the two games…the loss to William Jewell was the Cardinals first victory over the Bulldogs since their first meeting with Truman in 1988.

#TSUvsQU
The travel partners will meet for the eighth time under the GLVC banner since the 2013 season, six meetings have been labeled conference games while two others have come in the postseason tournament…Truman has won four and Quincy has won four including the last two meetings last year, the regular season finale in Quincy 65-53 and the quarterfinals of the conference tournament in St. Charles 62-49…overall, Quincy leads the all-time series with Truman 26-22 and are 15-6 in the Gem City…The Lady Hawks' Nikia Edom leads the team in scoring at 13.6 ppg and tied a school record against Hannibal-LaGrange on Tuesday night by hitting eight three-pointers…Edom has nearly half of the Lady Hawks' triples on the season (28 of 60)…no other player on the Quincy roster has more than seven three-pointers made…Anika Webster is second in scoring at 10.3 and first in rebounding at 4.8…Quincy has averaged 57 points per game and given up 67 points per…they have averaged over 15 turnovers per game…opponents have shot 43% overall and 39% from three and have been at the free throw line nearly 40 more times that Quincy players…Quincy was 25-6 last season and a participant in the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament.

Around the GLVC:
Bellarmine, Drury and Lewis University are the three GLVC schools ranked in the latest WBCA/USA Today Division II Coaches Poll…The Knights are fifth and the only undefeated team in the league at 8-0, Drury checks in at #11 and Lewis at #18 are both 8-1 on the season…Lewis sophomore Jessica Kelliher leads the league in scoring at 19.3 points per game, she is already a two-time GLVC Women's Basketball Player of the Week…four other players, Sydney Brackemyre (UINDY), Mary Dineen (Rockhurst), Jamie Johnson (Lewis) and Kalea Parks (St. Joseph's) average over 18 points per game…Illinois Springfield Syerra Cunningham has a dominate lead on rebounding, she averages 13.5 boards per game and has two games this season with 19…Southern Indiana has the largest scoring margin in the first third of the season at +30.1 (82.6/52.5).

Up Next:
Truman will be off for Finals and won't return to the court until Monday, December 19 when they will host the University of Missouri-St. Louis for a non-conference tilt. The two teams did this last year with the Tritons winning the non-conference game 61-60 in double overtime and the Bulldogs winning 78-73 in league play, also in overtime. Truman won the rubber game 59-51 in the first round of the GLVC Tournament in Kirksville. Tip time is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in Pershing Arena.

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Players Mentioned

#34 Cassidy Clark: C; 6' 2"; Senior

#31 Rachel Edmundson: F; 6' 0"; Sophomore

#42 Ashley Hartwig: F; 5' 11"; Junior

#05 Eleanor Lueke: G; 5' 10"; Freshman

Players Mentioned

#34 Cassidy Clark
: 6' 2"; Senior
: C

#31 Rachel Edmundson
: 6' 0"; Sophomore
: F

#42 Ashley Hartwig
: 5' 11"; Junior
: F

#05 Eleanor Lueke
: 5' 10"; Freshman
: G