Saturday, January 27
Annapolis, Md.
7 p.m.
Lehigh University
at
Navy
Lehigh Set for Road Test at Navy on Saturday Night
1/26/2018 3:41:00 PM | Women's Basketball
| GAME INFORMATION | |
| Matchup | Lehigh (12-8, 6-3 PL) at Navy (16-4, 6-3 PL) |
| Date/Time | Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 – 7 p.m. |
| Location | Alumni Hall – Annapolis, Md. |
| Video Stream | Patriot League Network (PatriotLeague.TV) |
| Audio Stream | Lehighsports.com/watch |
| Live Stats | Live Stats |
| Game Notes | Lehigh | Navy |
| @LehighWBB | |
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh women's basketball team will take on Navy Saturday night in Annapolis, Maryland, with both teams entering the contest in a tie for second place with Bucknell in the Patriot League standings. Both teams will be looking to rebound from road losses on Wednesday night.
Quinci Mann scored a career-high 32 points at Loyola on Wednesday, but the Mountain Hawks struggled to connect from the free throw line, going 9-for-18 in the game. Both teams committed 14 turnovers with Loyola scoring 20 points to Lehigh's 13 off those miscues. Up in Lewisburg, Navy scored 14 points in the first half of their 47-39 loss at Bucknell. Navy was held to a season-low 26.2 percent from the floor, but only scored two points in transition and tallied just 14 points off 20 Bison turnovers.
In their first meeting this year, Lehigh topped Navy 66-63 back on Jan. 2 at Stabler Arena. Lehigh held Navy to 20 percent from beyond the arc and under 38 percent from the floor in the game, hanging on as Navy's game-tying attempt at the buzzer rattled out. Quinci Mann led all scorers with 21 points and Camryn Buhr had 15 points and 11 rebounds to lead Lehigh. Gena Grundhoffer added 14 points and Hannah Hedstrom had a career-high 11 rebounds.
ALL-TIME VS. NAVY
Lehigh enters Wednesday's matchup with a 28-32 all-time record against the Midshipmen. Navy has controlled the tempo in the series in recent years, having won 11 of the last 13 matchups, including three of the last four, dating back to the Patriot League Tournament in March 2012. Navy leads the all-time series in Annapolis 17-12, while Lehigh has a 16-15 edge at Stabler Arena.
Since splitting two games in 2011, Lehigh took both regular season contests from Navy in 2012 before Navy won eight straight and swept the season series from 2013-2015. The two split the season series in 2015-16.
Each team has had an eight game winning streak during the course of
the 59 matchups in the series, with Lehigh's coming from 2001-2004, and Navy's from 2012-2015. Lehigh also had a six game win streak from 2008-2010, and Navy has had a pair of five-game streaks.
Navy went 2-1 against Lehigh in the 1980s, with their first matchup coming in the 1981-82 season. Navy held a 12-6 advantage in the 1990s, and Lehigh dominated in the 2000s by winning 14 of the 20 games. Since 2010, Navy holds a 12-6 record.
SCOUTING THE MIDSHIPMEN
The Navy Midshipmen enter Saturday's matchup tied with Lehigh and Bucknell for second place in the Patriot League with a 6-3 league record. At 16-4 overall, Navy holds an unblemished 11-0 record at home this season.
The Mids are coming off a sluggish offensive performance in Wednesday's 47-39 loss at Bucknell, which ended their five-game winning streak. Navy leads the Patriot League in several categories including scoring offense (69.3 ppg), scoring defense (55.5 ppg), and their league-best +13.8 scoring margin is more than twice as much as the next closest team. The Mids issue a league-leading 16.1 assists per game.
Defensively, they have also held opponents to a league-low 35.2 percent shooting and 29.5 percent from beyond the arc. They average 3.8 blocks per contest which is good for second in the league, are first in steals (10.9) and rank one spot ahead of Lehigh in third with a +1.2 rebounding margin.
Taylor Dunham leads the squad with 14.9 ppg this season, with Hannah Fenske ranking second with 13.0 points and 4.2 rebounds per contest. Kaila Clark leads the Mids with 8.8 rebounds per game, good enough for fourth in the Patriot League. Fenske's 3.9 assists put her second in the Patriot League, and both Fenske (38.3) and Dunham (37.3) rank in the top eight in the PL in three-point percentage, with Dunham leading the way with 2.8 made three-pointers per game.
Navy received votes in the AP Top 25 poll earlier this year before suffering their first two league losses of the year on the road at Lehigh and American.
UP NEXT
Lehigh will have a week off before its next game on Saturday, Feb. 3 at Boston University.
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