Women's Basketball Travels to Youngstown State

YOUNGSTOWN STATE GAME NOTES

Youngstown, OH - IPFW looks to ride the momentum from its 15-point win at home against Akron on Monday night into Youngstown, Ohio on Saturday afternoon for a 1:05 tip-off against the Penguins of Youngstown State University, currently 0-2 on the season.

Opponent: Youngstown State Penguins
When: Saturday, November 20, 1:05 PM
Where: Youngstown, Ohio, Beeghly Center (6,300)
All-Time Series: Youngstown Leads 3-1
Radio: Internet Only Broadcast - Mike Maahs (play-by-play)
Stats: Presto Live Stats
Video: Horizon League Network

SCOUTING THE PENGUINS
Youngstown State comes into Saturday's game having lost its last 33 games, with the program's last win coming in the 2008-09 regular season finale, a 54-38 win at home over Valparaiso, which had snapped an 18-game losing streak.
    After an 0-30 season last year, the program looked to new direction, and found it by naming Bob Bolden head coach. The name is familiar to Mastodon fans, as he was an assistant for IPFW under head coach Karl Smesko for the 1999-00 and 2000-01 seasons, IPFW's last years as a member of NCAA Division II. Most recently he teamed up with Smesko again, and was an assistant at Florida Gulf Coast University, before getting the call to lead the Penguins.
    YSU has opened the season with back-to-back losses, falling at Pittsburgh 78-58 and at Bowling Green on Wednesday evening 86-40. Brandi Brown and Bojana Dimitrov lead the team with scoring averages of 16.0 and 10.5, as no other Penguin player averages more than five a game. Dimitrov pulls down a team-best seven rebounds per game, while Maryum Jenkins has dished out eight assists and scored six points.
    The team has a blocked shot each from Brown and Melissa Thompson, while Liz Hornberger and Jenkins each have three steals. Brown has hit 13-of-28 shots from the field, a .464 shooting percentage, and 4-of-9 from long range (.444). No other player on the team who has attempted at least five shots is shooting above .300 from the field or long range. The Penguins have been solid from the charity stripe, hitting 17-of-21 free throws (.810 percent).

COACH CHRIS PAUL
IPFW Head Coach Chris Paul has a 53-88 career record at IPFW, as the wins are more than the previous two coaches (Bruce Patterson, 27; and Karl Smesko, 32). The 53 wins are the third most by a coach in school history. Teri Rosinski won 63 games at IPFW, the most by any coach in program history.

IPFW vs. THE HORIZON LEAGUE
The Mastodons have plaed in 50 games against Horizon League teams, the most against any conference other than the Summit League since becoming a full Division I member in 2001-02. IPFW is 15-35 all-time against teams currently in the league, as the Mastodons picked up one of those wins last season in the season opener, an 83-67 victory at the Gates Sports Center.

BIG DEBUTS
When Kayla Drake and Amanda Hyde reached double-figure scoring in their IPFW debuts, they join three other IPFW players on the current roster to have scored in double figures in their first game in a Mastodon uniform. Jordan Zuppe scored 18 against Toledo on November 11, 2007, while a year later, Anne Boese scored 17 in the season opener against Illinois. Stephanie Rosado became the third player in as many seasons to accomplish the feat when she scored 15 against Wright State, with the pair joining the list this year.

THREE POINT STREAK
The IPFW Mastodons have made a three-point basket in each of its last 347 games, a stretch that ranks as the fifth longest active streak in NCAA Division I. Canisius' streak is tops on the list with an NCAA Record 487 consecutive games. Connecticut, Loyola, and Southeast Missouri State all fall in line ahead of IPFW, with Murray State and Miami (Ohio) rounding out the top seven on the list.

IPFW SIGNS FOUR
IPFW Head Coach Chris Paul has announced that four current high school seniors, Haley Seibert, Hillary Moore, Libby Ogden, and Rebecca Bruner, have signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Mastodons next season.
    Seibert, a 5-5 point guard from Terre Haute South High School, averaged 15.8 points, 2.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists, and 2.5 steals per game last year, while hitting nearly 60 percent of her field goal attempts. She helped her team finish 14-10 on the season playing in the difficult Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference, and was named All-MIC First Team.
    She was named the Terre Haute Tribune Star Player of the Year, and the Wabash Valley Player of the Year. A 2010 Indiana Junior All-Star, Seibert was also named Honorable Mention All-State by the Associated Press and the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA), and was selected to the Underclassman All-State Honorable Mention team.
    Moore, a 5-10 forward/center from Benton Central High School, averaged 12 points and eight rebounds per game as a junior after putting up 10.1 points and 9.4 rebounds as a sophomore. She was rated the 35th best prospect in Indiana by D1Scout, and was an Indiana Top-100 Workout Nominee.
    She was named Third Team All-State by the Hoosier Basketball Magazine, and an IBCA All-State Honorable Mention. She was named to the Journal and Courier All-Area team as a sophomore and junior, and was named to the All-Hoosier Conference Team.
    Ogden, a 5-7 point guard from Hamilton Heights High School, was named to the Hoosier Basketball Magazine All-State Second Team in 2009, and to the Third Team in 2008. Daughter of head coach Kurt Ogden, she was also named as a First Team All-Mid-Indiana Conference selection in each of her three seasons on varsity.
    She averaged 12.6 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game as a junior, after putting up 15.3 points as a sophomore, and averaging 3.0 steals per game and has 914 career points. She has been named to the Indianapolis Star All-North Team and to the All-Hamilton County First Team as a freshman, sophomore, and junior.
    Bruner, a 6-0 forward from Springfield (Ohio) Northwestern High School, averaged 13.3 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 1.4 blocks per game as a junior. She earned Division II First Team All-District honors, and was an All-Clark County First Team selection in 2008-09 and 2009-10.
    She was a District 9 All-Star as a sophomore and junior, and named to the All-Central Buckeye Conference First Team as a sophomore and junior in addition to being named to the Springfield News Sun all-Area Honorable Mention squad.
preseason expectations...
The Mastodons were picked to finish fourth in the Summit League by the league's coaches, media, and sports information directors. The fourth place pick was the highest in any of the four seasons that the 'Dons have been in the league. Also picking up preseason honors were juniors Stephanie Rosado and Anne Boese, Rosado to the Preseason First Team, and Boese to the Second Team.

CLIMBING THE CAREER LADDER
Not only is Jordan Zuppe ranked third in career three-point field goals at IPFW, but she is also sitting at 10th on the career three-point basket list for The Summit League. She currently is six behind former Oral Roberts star Krista Ragan for ninth place, and is the highest active player on the list.

THREES AWAY
IPFW junior Anne Boese has hit a three-point basket in each of her last 33 games, including going through last season making at least one three-pointer in all 30 games. Since the inception of the three-point basket in college basketball in 1986-87, 21 IPFW players have started a season by hitting a three-point basket in four or more games. Jessica Henry was previously the only other player to make a three-pointer in every game during a season, and she is also in second behind Boese for the school record for most consecutive games with a three-point basket.

SHE CAN GIVE IT AS WELL AS SHE CAN TAKE IT
Last season against Indiana Tech, IPFW senior Jordan Zuppe dished out a career-high 10 assists, making her the first Mastodon player since IPFW joined NCAA Division I in 2001-02 to have an individual 25-point game, and a 10-assist game during their careers. Zuppe scored 27 points as a freshman against UMKC.

DOUBLE-DOUBLE
With a 14-point, 10-rebound double-double in the season's second game, Stephanie Rosado moved into 10th place in the IPFW record books for career double-doubles with seven. Lisa Miller has the school record with 31, with Verea Bibbs in second with 20. To the left is a listing of the top-10 double-double leaders in school history.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
This summer, current IPFW junior Stephanie Rosado was a member of the Puerto Rico National Team. As a member of the PR squad, she helped lead the team to Gold Medals at the Centrobasket Championships, and the 2010 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games.
    In the Centrobasket Championships, Rosado was the only player on the Puerto Rico squad to score in double figures in every game, averaging 12 points per game, pulling down 5.6 rebounds per game, and hitting 20-of-41 shots from the field, and 14-of-18 free throws, the latter was the seventh best overall in the tournament.
    The Gold Medal at the Centrobasket Championships also guarantees Puerto Rico a spot for the 2011 FIBA-Americas Championship for Women (Pre-Olympic) and to the 20111 Pan-American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

M-MILESTONES COME IN PAIRS
There are 13 current members of the 1,000-point club (Roman Numeral 'M'), and on three occasions, teammate milestones came in the same season. The first duo to reach 1,000-career points in the same season was Lisa Miller and Robin Scott in 1989-90. It was Miller's sophomore year and Scott's junior season, as the pair currently rank 1st and 6th on the all-time scoring list. Lindy Jones and Jennie Newhard each accomplished the feat in 1994-95, Jones' coming early in her junior season, and Newhard as a senior. The final duo was Johnna Lewis-Carlisle and Ashley Johnson. Lewis-Carlisle was a junior, while Johnson was a senior. It is likely this season that the list will add another grouping to it, as seniors Jordan Zuppe and Chelsey Jackson have 936 and 847 points, respectively, with a full slate of games upcoming.

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