NOTES: Road Trip Continues To Southern Indiana and McKendree This Week

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KIRKSVILLE, Mo. – The Truman Women's Basketball team continues their January schedule with a pair of road games on Thursday and Saturday at the University of Southern Indiana and McKendree University.

The Bulldogs are 7-1 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference while Southern Indiana is 6-2 in the league. Both teams are currently tied is the GLVC's Point Rating System with a rating of 4.0. They PSR is the system used by the league to determine the eight qualifiers and seeding for the postseason basketball tournament. The PSR assigns point values to different wins and losses ranging from seven points for a road win over a team with a .750 or above winning percentage to 0 points to a loss at home to a sub .250 team. The points fluctuate throughout the season based on the team's winning percentage.

Truman's best PSR win thus far was their home win over Maryville, which currently got the Bulldogs five points while Southern Indiana has a six point game with a road win over Indianapolis.

The Bulldogs bounced back after their first conference loss on Saturday to Lewis with a road win at Quincy on Monday night. Truman knocked down six of their eight three-pointers in the second quarter and outscored the Lady Hawks 26-14 before going on to win 64-57 over Quincy. Hannah Belanger led Truman with 14 points and Sloane Totta added 12. Maddie Re pulled down 16 rebounds and Truman dominated the glass 51-30.

Southern Indiana are winners of their last three and five of their last six. The Screaming Eagles are 4-2 in their new on-campus venue that was christened this past September. They are coming off a 72-51 win over McKendree on Monday night. USI made only one three-point attempt but got to the line outscoring the Bearcats by 11 from the stripe. Ashley Johnson had five steals to go with 14 points to lead the Screaming Eagles.

McKendree will host Quincy on Thursday before welcoming Truman on Saturday afternoon. The Bearcats enter the week with a 9-7 overall record and 2-6 in the GLVC. They have a 2.69 PSR which puts them 11^th in the conference standings.

All five Truman starters are averaging over 10 points in conference games this season. Hannah Belanger leads the group at 15 points per league games and has the top individual scoring game this season with 29 last Thursday against Illinois Springfield.

Maddie Re is averaging 11.8 points and 11.3 rebounds in conference. Her rebounding average is second in the conference rankings and her 30 offensive rebounds is first.

Sloane Totta played and started in her 100^th career game on Monday night and hit a few other milestones during the process. Totta has climbed over 900 career points (916) has 303 career assists, 208 career rebounds and has made 304 field goal attempts. Totta is averaging over five assists overall per game and 4.13 in conference games.

Katey Klucking has four games of 20 or more points this season and is second behind Belanger's 35 made three-pointers with 29. Klucking is averaging 10.5 points overall and 10.1 in conference games.

Katie Jaseckas has already eclipsed her single-season high in blocks now with 26 on the year. She had 25 last year as a sophomore and is nine away from the single-season top 10 list. Her 73 career blocks ranks sixth all-time. Jaseckas is shooting 50% from the field and averaging 10.6 points per game.

Two players have come off the bench in all 15 games. Tiffany Davenport is averaging 20.1 minutes per night and has 33 assists and 11 steals. Davenport scored a career-high 14 points against Missouri S&T earlier this season. Allison Thomas is shooting 63% from the field in 11.7 minutes per game. Thomas has made one start in which she scored a career-high 18 points at Rockhurst.

History With Southern Indiana:
This will be the third straight trip to Evansville for the Bulldogs and fifth road game against USI in the last six meetings. The all-time series has Southern Indiana with a 5-4 advantage. The Bulldogs won 83-72 in Evansville last January behind a 9-1 run late in the fourth quarter to break open a three-point game. Rachel Edmundson scored 18 points and Sloane Totta added 17. Imani Guy paced USI with 16 points. The Bulldogs were 29-of-39 at the free throw line while USI went 14-of-19.

Scouting USI:
Southern Indiana is 10-4 on the year and has a non-conference common opponent win over Central Missouri back on November 13 52-45…Truman lost to UCM a few weeks later at 70-63…Ashley Johnson leads the team in points (14.3), assists (53) and steals (33)…the team has been outscored by 132 points from three-point distance as USI has made 67 of 230 attempts while opponents have made 111 of 333 attempts…USI is ranked third in the conference in steals at 9.88 per league game and are third in turnover margin at +4.88…Southern Indiana was picked fourth in the league preseason coaches poll with 178 points and went 20-9 last season with a 13-5 league record.

History With McKendree:
The Bulldogs are 14-1 all-time against the Bearcats. They have won six of the seven games played in Lebanon with the only loss coming in 1988 by a score of 71-64. Last year in Kirksville, Truman cruised to a 76-56 victory with 12 of the 13 players in the scorebook with points led by 12 from Allison Thomas. Maddie Re pulled down 10 rebounds to go with 10 points for a double-double. Megan Jensen and Sydney Diekhoff led McKendree with nine points each.

Scouting McKendree:
The Bearcats enter the week having won two of their last seven games…they are last in conference games in three-point shooting at 25% with 28 out of 109 three-pointers made in GLVC games…they are second behind Truman in rebounding with 38.4 per night and rebounding margin at +5.6 (Truman is first at +10.9)…the Bearcats are last in turnover margin at -7.38 and average 21.5 turnovers in conference play…Jordan Heberg averages 15 points per night and is the top three-point shooter with 25 of the team's 54 makes…Madison Hart averages over 10.5 rebounds per game…McKendree was picked eighth in the preseason poll with 119 points and finished last season 13-15 overall and 7-11 in conference.

Up Next:
Following Saturday, Truman will play their next four at home but will only have one more home game left after their February 8^th date with Missouri-St. Louis. Next weekend, Truman will welcome Rockhurst and William Jewell to complete their season-series with those two teams.

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Players Mentioned

#24 Tiffany Davenport: G; 5' 6"; Sophomore

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

#54 Katie Jaseckas: F; 6' 2"; Sophomore

#23 Maddie Re: F; 6' 1"; Redshirt Freshman

#04 Sloane Totta: G; 5' 9"; Junior

#33 Katey Klucking: G; 5' 9"; Freshman

#42 Allison Thomas: C; 6' 2"; Freshman

#13 Hannah Belanger: G; 5' 8"; Freshman

Players Mentioned

#24 Tiffany Davenport
: 5' 6"; Sophomore
: G

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

#54 Katie Jaseckas
: 6' 2"; Sophomore
: F

#23 Maddie Re
: 6' 1"; Redshirt Freshman
: F

#04 Sloane Totta
: 5' 9"; Junior
: G

#33 Katey Klucking
: 5' 9"; Freshman
: G

#42 Allison Thomas
: 6' 2"; Freshman
: C

#13 Hannah Belanger
: 5' 8"; Freshman
: G