Friday, January 5
Worcester, Mass.
6 p.m.
Lehigh University
at
Holy Cross
Lehigh Faces First Patriot League Road Test Friday at Holy Cross
1/4/2018 11:11:00 AM | Women's Basketball
| GAME INFORMATION | |
| Matchup | Lehigh (8-5, 2-0 PL) at Holy Cross (6-7, 1-1 PL) |
| Date/Time | Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 – 6 p.m. |
| Location | Hart Center – Worcester, Mass. |
| Video Stream | Patriot League Network (PatriotLeague.TV) |
| Audio Stream | Lehighsports.com/watch |
| Live Stats | Live Stats |
| Game Notes | Lehigh Game Notes | Holy Cross Game Notes |
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Coming off their most impressive win of the season on Tuesday, the Lehigh women's basketball team will face its first Patriot League road test on Friday when they travel to Holy Cross. The Mountain Hawks are off to a 2-0 start in league play after a pair of home wins over Lafayette and Navy, where they combined to shoot nearly 43 percent from the field and 50 percent (23-for-56) from three-point range.
In Tuesday's victory over Navy, Camryn Buhr picked up her second double-double of the season and Quinci Mann hit her 167th career three-pointer, moving her into third place on the school's all-time list. Lehigh held the Midshipmen to 37.7 percent shooting from the floor and 20 percent from long range, while improving their own three-point percentage to a league best 34.4 percent. Mann is averaging 18.5 points through the first two league games, good enough for third in the PL, while Buhr's 16 ppg is tied for sixth.
Holy Cross enters with the second-highest scoring offense in the league this season, and is coming off a home loss to Lafayette on Tuesday after taking their league opener by seven points at Colgate last week.
ALL-TIME VS. HOLY CROSS
Despite winning 17 of the last 22 matchups against Holy Cross since 2009, Lehigh still trails 42-23 in the all-time series. The two teams have split the pair of regular season matchups each of the last two seasons.
Lehigh defeated Holy Cross in the Patriot League Tournament in both 2015 and 2016, but Lehigh has dropped both road games each of the last two seasons in Worcester, including last year's 65-47 decision. Hailey Pascoe (16 pts) and Quinci Mann (15) led Lehigh, which was held to 30.8 percent shooting in the game while Holy Cross shot at 40.4 percent and had three players in double figures. The script flipped at Stabler Arena on Feb. 11 as Lehigh shot 52.1 percent and was 10-for-20 from 3pt range in one of their best games of the season, an 80-64 win with Mann (23) and Grundhoffer (20) both scoring 20+ points.
Both teams have enjoyed prolonged winning streaks in the series history, with Lehigh winning 10 straight from 2009-2013, and Holy Cross winning 18 straight as part of 26 wins in 27 games against Lehigh from 1991 to 2001.
SCOUTING THE CRUSADERS
Off to a 1-1 start in Patriot League play, Holy Cross has defeated Colgate 71-64 on the road and dropped a 69-65 decision to Lafayette at home on Tuesday. Lafayette is the only common opponent between the two schools so far this season.
Boasting the league's two leading scorers in Lauren Manis (18.3 ppg) and Infiniti Thomas-Waheed (18.1), HC enters the matchup with the second-highest scoring offense in the Patriot League at 69.3 points per game. On Tuesday vs. Lafayette, Manis scored 26 points on 9-of-20 shooting, but HC struggled to shoot just 31 percent. Thomas-Waheed scored 14 points and senior Katie Doherty added nine.
The Crusaders +2.8 scoring margin ranks fourth in the league, one spot ahead of Lehigh. HC is second in the PL, just behind Lehigh, with a 34.3 3FG%, and is also just behind the Mountain Hawks in field goal pct (40.2). Defensively, HC controls the glass with a rebounding margin of -3.1, good enough for seventh in the league while ranking third in steals and turnover margin.
Manis, the reigning PL Rookie of the Year, ranks sixth in the PL at 8.6 rebounds per game and is tops in the league at 78.7 percent from the free throw line. Thomas-Waheed became the 33rd player in program history to collect 1,000 career points in the team's overtime loss to Dartmouth on Dec. 20.
Senior guard Tricia Byrne averages 8.4 ppg while shooting 41.8 percent from the field and 40.5 percent from beyond the arc. Sophomore Kathryn Pedi (47.6%) and Madalyn Smith (39.5%) are also threats from downtown.
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