Mastodons Look for Third Straight Win on Monday

PREGAME NOTES VS. WESTERN ILLINOIS

Fort Wayne, IN- IPFW looks for its 10th win of the season on Monday night, when the team hosts the Leathernecks of Western Illinois University at the Hilliard Gates Sports Center.

Opponent: Western Illinois Leathernecks (4-10, 2-2 Summit League)
When: Monday, January 10, 7:00 PM EST
Where: Fort Wayne, Indiana; Hilliard Gates Sports Center (2,500)
All-Time Series: IPFW leads 4-2
Radio: Internet only broadcast on GoMastodons.com - Mike Maahs (play-by-play)
Stats: Sidearm Live Stats
Video: IPFW Live Video Feed (subscription required)

QUICK HITTERS
•    IPFW set a single-game Summit League record with 44 three-point field goal attempts against Oral Roberts, while Anne Boese's 17 three-point attempts are tied for second most in a game in league history
•    Anne Boese's 6-of-7 shooting display against Centenary is the second highest shooting percentage in school history
•    The Mastodons are 9-5 for the first time in the school's Division I era, and the first time since 2000-01.
•    Jordan Zuppe became the program's 14th member of the 1,000-point club against Hampton on December 19
•    The Mastodons won a game when trailing at halftime for the first time since March 3, 2006 against Detroit
•    IPFW's .279 shooting percentage against UMKC was the first time the Mastodons have won while shooting under .300
    since the opening game of the 1999-00 season, and the lowest shooting percentage in a victory in school history.
•    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.
•    Head Coach Chris Paul is three wins away from becoming the winningest coach in program history, and currently stands second in career coaching wins, and has more wins than the previous two coaches combined.
•    The Mastodons have made a three-point basket in 359 consecutive games, the seventh longest active streak in the NCAA
•    Anne Boese has made a three-point basket in each of her last 45 games, including making one in every game of last season
•    Jordan Zuppe currently sits sixth in Summit League history with 220 career three-point baskets made, and Anne Boese is 13th with 183.
•    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

BOMBS AWAY
When IPFW faced off against Oral Roberts, few predicted the explosion from long range that would ensue. The Mastodons attempted 44 shots from long range, a mark that tops the previous Summit League single-game total, set by Troy in the 1995-96 season and by Oral Roberts last year. The team's 17 makes puts the Mastodons into a tie for third all-time, behind only a pair of 18-make games by the Golden Eagles a season ago. IPFW junior Anne Boese was one of the primary catalysts for the offensive explosion, making 7-of-17 shots from long range. The seven makes puts her in a tie for fifth on the Summit League single-game totals in league games, while the 17 attempts are tied for the second most in league history, and tied for the highest total in a conference game. As per the IPFW record book, the 44 attempts are tied for the third highest total, and the 17 makes are the second most. Boese's seven makes ranks in a tie for fourth, while the 17 attempts ties the school record.

ALMOST A NATIONAL LEADER
With the release of the newest national leaders on Monday, IPFW senior Jordan Zuppe finds herself in second in the country in free throw percentage. She has made 37 of her 38 attempts for a percentage of .974, fractions of a point behind Emily London of Samford, who has made 40-of-41 attempts from the charity stripe. This was the first rankings that Zuppe has appeared in, as the minimum for qualifications is 2.5 free throws made per game, and she will need one make over the next two games to qualify for next weeks' rankings.

DROPPING BOMBS
Two days after her 7-for-17 eruption against Oral Roberts, Anne Boese took just long range shots against Centenary, however, by making six of those, she etched her name in the school's record book for the second highest percentage in program history. Like Zuppe, Boese is also ranked nationally, sitting third in three-point field goals made per game, averaging 3.5 per contest, and is 28th in three-point percentage, knocking down .437 percent of her shots from long range.

SERIES AGAINST WESTERN ILLINOIS
IPFW has only faced off against Western Illinois since joining The Summit League for the 2008-09 season, and hold a 4-2 lead in the all-time series. The Mastodons won the opening meeting between the two teams, a 69-57 contest on January 28, 2008, before the Leathernecks evened the series later that year. IPFW proceeded to sweep the meetings in the 2008-09 season, before winning the opener last season in Fort Wayne. Western Illinois got its revenge in Macomb in the last meeting between the two teams, not taking its first lead until a minute into overtime, winning 58-55 in extra time.

SCOUTING THE LEATHERNECKS
Western Illinois comes into Monday night's game having split its last eight games, after starting the year 0-6 with losses at Iowa State, Oklahoma, Kansas State and Milwaukee. The team's four wins have come against Centenary and IUPUI, and NAIA schools William Woods and Judson.

In the team's most recent game, a 64-38 loss at Oakland on Saturday afternoon, Brittany Demery scored a team-high eight points off of the bench, while Valencia Kelly and Sadie Webb each scored seven from the starting lineup. Michele Salvatori and Jackie Rieger, the team's third and fourth leading scorers, were held scoreless in the game.

Kelly dished out a team-leading five assists, with Demery pulling down five rebounds, as the team was out-rebounded by 14, 40-26. Jackie Barton had a pair of steals, while three others had a block.

For the season, the squad is led by Webb, who averages 9.1 points per game, with Kelly pouring in 9.0 per contest. Salvatori and Rieger, after their scoreless games, saw their scoring averages drop to 8.4 and 6.1, respectively. Demery averages 5.8 points and a team-high 4.6 rebounds, as the Leathernecks are getting out-rebounded by an average margin of 3.1 per game.

Kelly has 25 steals to lead the team, with Rieger adding 23. As a team, the Leathernecks have 140 steals, good for the third highest total in the Summit League, averaging 10.0 per game, just ahead of IPFW's 9.5 steals per contest. The team has made .363 percent of its shots, .267 from long range, and .655 from the charity stripe, all of which rank either eighth or ninth in the league standings. The team's 16 blocked shots rank last in the league, and the scoring average ninth in the ten-team conference.

IPFW VS. THE SUMMIT LEAGUE
In Summit League regular season action, IPFW is above .500 at 30-29 all-time in league play, and the 'Dons are 31-38 under the direction of head coach Chris Paul.

LAST TIME OUT
A balanced offensive attack that saw four Mastodons in double-figures complemented a strong defensive effort as IPFW downed in-state rival IUPUI, 72-55.

The win improves IPFW's record to 9-5 on the season, the program's best start through 14 games since joining NCAA Division I in 2001-02, while improving to 3-2 in league play.

Kayla Drake led IPFW scorers with 16 points to go along with three rebounds and an assist. After being honored before the game for becoming the14th member of IPFW's 1,000-point club, senior Jordan Zuppe posted 14 points and a career-high-tying eight rebounds.

Freshman Amanda Hyde provided a spark off the bench, scoring 12 points and Stephanie Rosado tallied 10 points, including the first six of the game, while hauling in a team-best nine boards, as IPFW out-rebounded the Jaguars 38-to-32.

The Mastodons forced 17 IUPUI turnovers, turning into 13 steals and 15 points off of turnovers, with Drake leading the way with five pilfers, as Erin Murphy added three steals to go with her five points and five rebounds.

COLD WIN
On December 6, the IPFW Mastodons made just 17-of-61 shots from the field, a percentage of .279. What was unique about that game, was that the Mastodons prevailed 60-58 over the Kangaroos of UMKC. The .279 shooting percentage is the lowest in school history in a game in which IPFW was victorious. Below are the five lowest shooting percentage wins in school history. Of the top-15 lowest shooting percentages in wins, 12 came at either the Memorial Coliseum or the Gates Sports Center.

Pct.	Opponent	Date	Field Goals
.279	UMKC	12/6/2010	17-of-61
.299	vs. Saginaw Valley State	11/19/1999	23-of-77
.300	Western Illinois	1/26/2009	18-of-60
.304	Lewis	12/23/1985	24-of-79
.311	vs. Savannah State	3/5/2005	19-of-61

HOME COURT ADVANTAGE
From November 23 until December 9, the IPFW Mastodons had a six-game home stand. The six games is tied for the longest consecutive streak of home games, tied with the end of the 2005-06 season, in which IPFW hosted Texas-Pan American, Wayne State, South Dakota State, North Dakota State, Utah Valley State, and Texas A&M Corpus Christi. During the 2005-06 stretch, IPFW went 5-1 to end the year with a 7-21 record in current head coach Chris Paul's season as interim head coach.

IT'S ALL BINARY
For those familiar with computer programing, binary numbers are the language of 1's and 0's that computers speak; however, there was nothing robotic about IPFW senior Jordan Zuppe on Sunday against Hampton. The senior scored a season-high 17 points, pulled down a career-high-tying eight rebounds. What was unique was the series of 1's and 0's that accompany the evening. Zuppe scored her 1,000th point in the game, which was also her 100th in a Mastodon uniform. Add to it that it was the 10th game of the season, in IPFW's 10th season as a Division 1 member, and finally the fact that Zuppe ended the game with 1,010 career points, you have enough to keep a computer talking for months.

THREE'S AWAY
IPFW junior Anne Boese has hit a three-point basket in each of her last 44 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.

ROAD WARRIORS
Starting on Sunday, December 19, and ending on Friday, December 31, IPFW took part on a four-game road swing that sent the Mastodons to the east coast and into the deep south. The Mastodons traveled to Hampton, Virginia to take on the Hampton Lady Pirates, a trip that is 727 miles long, before heading west for 140 miles to face off against the Longwood Lancers in Farmville, Virginia, before making the 650-mile trek back to Fort Wayne. Eight days later the 'Dons faced off against Summit League foe Oral Roberts, a trip that is 775 miles from Fort Wayne to Tulsa, Oklahoma, before traveling to Shreveport, Louisiana (350 miles from Tulsa) for the second game of a weekend Summit League series against Centenary. The return trip of 920 miles sets the entire four-game stretch at just over 3,500 total miles.

DOUBLE-DOUBLE
With her double-double against Southern Utah, her fourth in the team's last five games, IPFW junior Stephanie Rosado has moved into sole possession of 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
7	Stephanie Rosado	10	2009-present
t-8	Sarah Turner	9	1987-89
t-8	Teena Merrell	9	1986-90
10	Trish Fleming	8	1999-01

COACH CHRIS PAUL
IPFW Head Coach Chris Paul has a 61-92 career record at IPFW, as the wins are more than the previous two coaches (Bruce Patterson, 27; and Karl Smesko, 32), combined. The 61 wins are tthe second most by a coach in school history. Teri Rosinski won 63 games at IPFW, the most by any coach in program history.

Coach	Record	Pct.
Teri Rosinski	63-46 (4)	.578
Chris Paul	61-92 (6)	.399
Pam Bowden	58-76 (5)	.433
Eileen Kleinfelter	49-34 (3)	.590
Kirk Kavanaugh	43-29 (3)	.597
Karl Smesko	32-22 (2)	.593
Bruce Patterson	27-92 (5)	.227
Peggy Voisin	18-26 (2)	.409
Julie Calahan	14-39 (2)	.264
Mary Schreiber	9-8 (1)	.529
Barb McDonald	9-10 (1)	.474
Kathy Kissinger	7-7 (1)	.500
Denise Knuth	3-20 (1)	.130
TOTALS	391-500	.438

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 and Anne Boese ranked third and fifth in career three-point field goals at IPFW, but they are also sitting in eighth and 13th on the career three-point basket list for The Summit League.

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.	Jordan Zuppe	IPFW	2007-pres.	220
7.	Chazny Morris	UMKC	2006-10	218
8.	Kristin Atkinson	Oral Roberts	1998-03	216
9.	Carrie Myers	Valparaiso	2003-07	215
10.	Krista Ragan	Oral Roberts	1997-02	200
11.	Kristin Rotert	South Dakota St.	2007-pres.	188
12.	Katie Wolfe	Oakland	1999-03	188
13.	Anne Boese	IPFW	2008-pres.	183

THREE-POINT STREAK
The IPFW Mastodons have made a three-point basket in each of its last 359 games, a stretch that ranks as the seventh longest active streak in NCAA Division I. Canisius' and Iowa State's streaks are at the top of the list by making a three-point basket in 499 games. Sam Houston State, Connecticut, Loyola, and Southeast Missouri State all fall in line ahead of IPFW. The previous NCAA record was 408 games, held by Cleveland State, while Tennessee saw its 422 consecutive game streak snapped on January 2 against LSU, going 0-7 from long range.

Rank	Team	Streak
1.	Canisius	499
NEXT: at Rider (1/10), vs. Marist (1/14)
1.	Iowa State	499
NEXT: vs. Nebraska (1/11), at Colorado (1/15)
3.	Sam Houston State	453
NEXT: at UT-Arlington (1/12), at Nichols (1/15)
4.	Connecticut	411
NEXT: at St. John's (1/12), vs. Louisville (1/15)
5.	Loyola (Ill.)	407
NEXT: at Green Bay (1/12), at Milwaukee (1/15)
6.	Southeast Missouri State	387
NEXT: vs. Morehead State (1/13), vs. Eastern Kentucky (1/15)
7.	IPFW	359
NEXT: vs. Western Illinois (1/10), vs. Oakland (1/15)

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.

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.

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.

M-MILESTONES COME IN PAIRS
There are 14 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 by way of seniors Jordan Zuppe and Chelsey Jackson. Zuppe reached 1,000 points on December 19 against Hampton, and Jackson needs 67 with 14 games remaining on the schedule.

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 2011 Pan-American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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.

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