MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The No. 18-ranked West Virginia College ladies’s basketball staff is ready to open dwelling Massive 12 Convention play on Saturday, Jan. 1, once they tackle Central Florida contained in the WVU Coliseum on Morgantown.
Tipoff towards the Knights is scheduled for two p.m. ET, and gates open at 1 p.m. The competition towards UCF might be broadcast dwell on the Mountaineer Sports activities Community, together with 100.9 WZST-FM, with Andrew Caridi on the decision. Followers can also hearken to the sport on the Varsity Community App.
Moreover, Wednesday’s recreation might be broadcast on ESPN+, with Eric Little and Warren Baker on the decision. Stay stats and recreation notes can be found on WVUsports.com.
Tickets for the competition will be bought at WVUGAME.com or by visiting the Mountaineer Ticket Workplace, situated contained in the Gold Gate of the WVU Coliseum.
The competition will function youth and household day on the WVU Coliseum. Followers should buy a Household Day pack of 4 basic admission tickets and a $15 concessions voucher for simply $25. Put up recreation autographs with the staff might be held on the concourse exterior of the gold gate.
The matchup would be the fourth assembly between WVU (10-2, 0-1 Massive 12) and Central Florida (7-4, 0-1 Massive 12). The Mountaineers are an ideal 3-0 all-time within the collection after sweeping each conferences final season. WVU is 1-0 in video games performed contained in the WVU Coliseum.
The Knights are led by Preseason All-Massive 12 Choice Kaitlyn Peterson who averages 22.4 factors per recreation. Hannah Gusters and Emely Rodriguez additionally common double-figures with 16.4 and 11.8 factors per recreation. Gusters provides a staff main 8.5 rebounds whereas Neveah Brown dishes out 3.7 assists.
UCF opened the season with six straight wins earlier than dropping 4 of their final 5. Central Florida opened Massive 12 play with a 92-52 loss at dwelling to No. 12 TCU their final day out.
Senior guard JJ Quinerly (17.5), junior guard Jordan Harrison (15.3) and junior guard Sydney Shaw (12.5) tempo the Mountaineers scoring manufacturing this season. Harrison’s 5.3 assists per recreation leads WVU and ranks thirty fourth within the nation. Senior guard Kyah Watson has grabbed 8.2 rebounds per recreation which ranks fifth within the Massive 12 whereas her 3.17 steals per recreation ranks first.
The Massive 12’s leaders in steals final season, Watson (38), Quinerly (29) and Harrison (24), are at it once more this season averaging over two steals per contest. Junior guard Sydney Shaw and Senior guard Sydney Woodley have additionally gotten in on the motion with 24 and 22 steals this season, giving WVU 5 gamers with 20+ steals by 12 video games. The Mountaineers’ 14.7 steals per recreation are one of the best within the Massive 12 and fourth nationally.
The Mountaineers have pressured 15+ turnovers in each recreation this season, to common 25.6 per recreation. The mark ranks ninth within the nation. The Mountaineers have pressured 30-plus turnovers in 4 video games, together with a season-high 44. WVU ranks fourth within the nation with 14.7 steals per recreation and holds a +9.2 turnover margin.
The Mountaineers are averaging 82.8 factors per recreation whereas outscoring their opponents by a mean of 32.5 factors.
Quinerly appears to be like to interrupt into the highest 10 in factors scored in a profession and the highest 5 in steals. She presently sits twelfth in factors at 1,557 and seventh in steals with 260.
