Purdue Fort Wayne
Southern Utah
Mastodons Host Thunderbirds in Team's Summit Opener
12/3/2010 1:20:27 PM | Women's Basketball
GAME NOTES VS. SOUTHERN UTAH
Fort Wayne, IN - IPFW (3-2, 0-0 Summit League) looks to rebound from its loss to Louisville by hosting Southern Utah in the Summit League opener for the Mastodons.
Opponent: Southern Utah Thunderbirds (2-5, 0-1 Summit League)
When: Saturday, December 4, 4:00 PM
Where: Fort Wayne, IN; Memorial Coliseum (10,500)
All-Time Series: IPFW Leads 6-0
Radio: ESPN Radio 1380-Fort Wayne - Internet simulcast on GoMastodons.com - Mike Maahs (play-by-play)
Stats: Sidearm Live Stats
Video: IPFW Live Video Feed (subscription required)
QUICK HITTERS
• Stephanie Rosado was named the Summit League Player of the Week on December 23 after a 22-point, 12-rebound double-double against Youngstown State.
• IPFW is 6-0 all-time against the Southern Utah Thunderbirds, all six meetings coming in Summit League play.
• Rosado set a new single-game school record with eight blocked shots against Indiana Tech on December 23, while also recording her third consecutive double-double.
• The Mastodons are 3-2 for the first time since 2006-07.
• IPFW was picked to finish fourth in the Summit League Preseason Coaches Poll, the program's highest preseason prediction in its four years in the league.
• Stephanie Rosado was named to the Preseason Summit League First Team, and Anne Boese to the Preseason Second Team
• Head Coach Chris Paul is nine wins away from becoming the winningest coach in program history, and currently stands third all time in coaching wins.
• The Mastodons have made a three-point basket in 350 consecutive games, the eighth longest active streak in the NCAA
• Anne Boese has made a three-point basket in each of her last 36 games, including making one in every game of last season
• Jordan Zuppe currently sits in a tie for ninth place in Summit League history with 200 career three-point baskets made
• Junior post Stephanie Rosado comes back to IPFW after spending the summer playing against international competition as a member of the Puerto Rico National Team, which won gold medals at the Centrobasket Championship, and the 2010 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, earning berths into the 2011 Pan-American Games and the 2011 FIBA-Americas Championships, a Pre-Olympic competition.
BYE BYE BIRDIES
On November 1, 2010, Southern Utah University announced that it will be leaving The Summit League to join the Big Sky Conference beginning in the 2012-13 season. The Thunderbirds will play a complete 2010-11 and 2011-12 schedule before joining the more georgraphically friendly league.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
IPFW junior Stephanie Rosado was named the Summit League Player of the Week on November 23 after scoring 22 points and pulling down 12 rebounds against Youngstown State on November 20. It was the second time that Rosado has been named a Summit League Player of the Week (she earned the award February 9 last season), and just the fourth time overall that a Mastodon has been named a Player of the Week, joining Johnna Lewis Carlisle (January 29) and Jordan Zuppe (March 4) who both were named to the award in 2007-08.
BLOCK PARTY
On the same day that Stephanie Rosado was named the Summit League Player of the Week, the junior erupted for a near triple-double, including a school-record eight blocked shots, six of those coming in the first half. With Sydney Weinert's 11 blocks added in, it was the first time IPFW has had at least 10 blocked shots in a game since December 2, 2005 against Kalamazoo, when the squad also had 11.
BACK-TO-BACK DOUBLE-DOUBLES
Stephanie Rosado did something that hasn't been done since the 1999-00 season - pick up three straight double-doubles. It was the first time since Trish Fleming had three straight against St. Joseph's, Indianapolis, and Northern Kentucky. The school record for consecutive double-doubles is four, set by Sarah Turner in 1987-88, Tarri Lydy in 1985-86, and Rhonda Unverferth in 1983-84.
SCOUTING THE THUNDERBIRDS
Southern Utah comes into Saturday's game having lost its conference opener to Oakland University Thursday evening by a 68-39 score. The Grizzlies led wire-to-wire, jumping out to a 16-4 lead eight minutes into the game, and never looked back, cruising to the 29-point win.
In the game, Challis Pascucci and Andrea Jones each scored 10 points, while Caitlyn Sears scored seven while grabbing a team-high six rebounds.
The Thunderbirds were held to 24.5 percent (13-of-53) shooting from the field, and 4-of-17 (.235) from long range, while Oakland hit half of its 52 shots, while making 8-of-15 three-point baskets.
This season the team has been led by Sears, who averages 14.0 points and 7.0 rebounds per game. Preseason All-League selection Pascucci is second on the team in scoring, averaging 12.7 points per game, and grabbing 6.3 rebounds per contest.
Pascucci has a team-best seven blocks, with Kaila Goff dishing out 27 assists to go with her 6.3 point-per-game scoring average.
IPFW VS. THE SUMMIT LEAGUE
In Summit League regular season action, IPFW is an even 27-27 all-time in league play, and the 'Dons are 28-36 under the direction of head coach Chris Paul.
LAST TIME OUT
The Mastodons scored 54 second-half points, but could not erase a 16-0 start by the Louisville Cardinals, falling in a non-conference meeting on Monday evening. Anne Boese made 5-of-12 three-point baskets en route to a team-high 19 points, while Kayla Drake scored 18 and grabbed four steals.Chelsey Jackson added 15 points and a team-best four assists, with Stephanie Rosado and Erin Murphy each scoring a dozen points.
NEXT TIME OUT
After IPFW hosts Southern Utah, the team remains at home for three more games, hosting UMKC on December 6, Valparaiso on December 8, and Detroit on December 11.
HEAD COACH CHRIS PAUL
IPFW Head Coach Chris Paul has a 55-89 career record at IPFW, as the wins are more than the previous two coaches (Bruce Patterson, 27; and Karl Smesko, 32). The 55 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.
BACK-TO-BACK DOUBLE-DOUBLES
Stephanie Rosado did something that hasn't been done since the 1999-00 season - pick up three straight double-doubles. It was the first time since Trish Fleming had three straight against St. Joseph's, Indianapolis, and Northern Kentucky. The school record for consecutive double-doubles is four, set by Sarah Turner in 1987-88, Tarri Lydy in 1985-86, and Rhonda Unverferth in 1983-84.
HOME COURT ADVANTAGE
IPFW freshman Erin Murphy has done well at home games while at IPFW, averaging 9.3 points per game in her three games at home. However, Murphy has been shutout in both of her road games, both in the season opener at Michigan State, and at Youngstown State on November 20.
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 349 games, a stretch that ranks as the eighth longest active streak in NCAA Division I. Canisius and Iowa State's streaks are tops on the list with an NCAA Record 489 consecutive games. Sam Houston State, Tennessee, Connecticut, Loyola, and Southeast Missouri State all fall in line ahead of IPFW.
| Rank | Team | Streak |
| 1. | Canisius | 490 |
| NEXT: vs. Duquesne (12/4), at St. Bonaventure (12/7) |
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| 2. | Iowa State |
489 |
| NEXT: vs. Michigan (12/5), at Iowa (12/9) |
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| 3. | Sam Houston State | 446 |
| NEXT: vs. Grambling (12/6), at North Texas (12/8) |
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| 4. | Tennessee | 416 |
| NEXT: at Old Dominion (12/5), at Texas (12/12) |
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| 5. | Connecticut | 404 |
| NEXT: vs. Sacred Heart (12/5), vs. Marquette (12/9) |
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| 6. | Loyola (Illinois) | 398 |
| NEXT: at Colgate (12/3), at Niagara (12/5) |
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| 7. | Southeast Missouri State | 379 |
| NEXT: vs. Tennessee State (12/4), vs. Western Michigan (12/7) |
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| 8. | IPFW | 350 |
| NEXT: vs. Southern Utah (12/4) |
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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 CONFERENCE 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 three behind former Oral Roberts star Krista Ragan for ninth place, and is the highest active player on the list.
| Rank | Student-Athlete | School | Years | 3FGM |
| 1. |
Brenna Doty |
Buffalo |
1994-97 |
262 |
| 2. | Katie Houlehan | UMKC | 2001-05 | 257 |
| 3. | Suzie Hammel | Valparaiso | 2000-04 | 236 |
| 4. | Anne Hafeli | Oakland | 2002-06 | 235 |
| 5. | Jayme Wilson | Oakland | 2002-06 | 232 |
| 6. | Chazny Morris | UMKC | 2006-10 | 218 |
| 7. | Kristin Atkinson | Oral Roberts | 1998-03 | 216 |
| 8. | Carrie Myers | Valparaiso | 2003-07 | 215 |
| 9. | Jordan Zuppe | IPFW | 2007-pres. | 200 |
| 9. | Krista Ragan | Oral Roberts | 1997-02 | 200 |
THREES AWAY
IPFW junior Anne Boese has hit a three-point basket in each of her last 34 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 her back-to-back-to-back double-doubles against Akron, Youngstown State, and Indiana Tech, IPFW junior Stephanie Rosado has moved into a tie for seventh place in the school's record books with nine career double-doubles. Lisa Miller has the school record with 31, with Verea Bibbs in second with 20. Below is a listing of the top-10 double-double leaders in school history.
| Rank | Student-Athlete | 2B-2B | Seasons |
| 1 | Lisa Miller | 31 | 1988-92 |
| 2 | Verea Bibbs | 20 | 2001-05 |
| t-3 | Robin Scott | 13 | 1987-91 |
| t-3 | Rhonda Unverferth | 13 | 1982-85 |
| 5 | Pam Edwards | 12 | 1989-94 |
| 6 | Terri Lydy | 11 | 1985-86 |
| T-7 | Stephanie Rosado |
9 | 2009-present |
| T-7 | Sarah Turner | 9 | 1987-89 |
| T-7 | Teena Merrell | 9 | 1986-90 |
| 10 | Trish Fleming | 8 | 1999-01 |
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 956 and 875 points, respectively, with 26 games still on the schedule for the season.
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.
