Wednesday, February 14
Bethlehem, Pa.
6 p.m.
Lehigh University
vs
Colgate
Mountain Hawks to Welcome Colgate for Midweek Matchup
2/13/2018 3:40:00 PM | Women's Basketball
| GAME INFORMATION | |
| Matchup | Colgate (4-20, 0-13 PL) at Lehigh (13-11, 7-6 PL) |
| Date/Time | Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018 – 6 p.m. |
| Location | Stabler Arena – Bethlehem, Pa. |
| TV | Service Electric 2 Sports |
| Video Stream | Patriot League Network (PatriotLeague.TV) |
| Audio Stream | www.lehighsports.com/watch |
| Live Stats | Live Stats |
| Game Notes | Lehigh | Colgate |
| @LehighWBB | |
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh women's basketball team will welcome Colgate to Stabler Arena for a Patriot League matchup on Wednesday night. The Mountain Hawks will look to bounce back from a 0-2 week last week and do so on their home court, where they are 9-2 this season.
The Mountain Hawks enter scoring 64.7 points per game at home this season and are shooting nearly 43 percent from the floor. The team ranks second overall in the legaue this season by connecting on 33.7 percent of their three-point attempts, including a 36.2 percent clip in league play. This is despite LU's last game on Saturday where the team had a rare shaky offensive performance at Stabler with home season-lows of 44 points and 28.6 percent shooting.
At 4-20 (0-13 PL), Colgate is in search of its first win since early December. The Raiders are coming off a 21-point loss at home Saturday to Bucknell, and dropped an overtime decision at BU last Wednesday after surrendering a four-point lead in the closing seconds of regulation.
Lehigh took the first matchup between the two 59-51 back on Jan. 17, weathering a late 12-2 run and scoring the last four points of the game to preserve the win. Quinci Mann had 15 points and Camryn Buhr picked up her most recent double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Cameryn Benz tallied eight points and eight rebounds. Summer King led all scorers with 16 points on 7-of-9 shooting for Colgate.
ALL-TIME VS. COLGATE
Wednesday's matchup will be the 66th all-time between Lehigh and Colgate. Over the last 11 matchups dating back to the start of the 2012-13 season, the Mountain Hawks hold an 8-4 record, including a 3-3 record on the road and 5-1 mark at Stabler Arena. Lehigh leads the all-time series 39-26. Lehigh's senior class is 4-3 over their seven career games against Colgate.
The two teams have split the regular season series each of the last four years, and Colgate has not won the season series (including PLT matchups) since taking two of three in the 2004-05 season.
Last year in the regular season finale at Stabler Arena on March 1, Lehigh shot a season-high 53.6 percent and used 19 points from Mann and 17 from Gena Grundhoffer to pull away in the second half for an 83-74 win.
SCOUTING THE RAIDERS
Colgate has struggled this season and enters Wednesday in 10th place in the Patriot League standings at 4-20, 0-13 PL. The Raiders have dropped 16 straight since an 84-64 home win against UMass Lowell on Dec. 2.
Thus far in league play, Colgate has allowed an average of 67.4 points per game and a -15.2 scoring margin, along with 9.2 assists and 4.9 steals per game, all last in the league. Colgate ranks similar to Lehigh in the rebounding department with both teams tied for eighth in league play in rebounding margin (-3.2), and both ranking at the bottom of the league in offensive rebounds with Colgate at 34.4 and Lehigh with 33.8. The Raiders sit fifth by holding opponents to 30.7 percent from three-point range. The Raiders rank sixth in the league in blocked shots with 3.4 per game, compared to the Mountain Hawks who come in last at 2.2.
The Raiders came close to picking up their first league win at Boston last Wednesday. Colgate rallied from down nine early in the fourth and held a four-point lead with 14 seconds left, but BU tied it up with a three-pointer, a steal and a free throw in the final nine seconds to force overtime and win 66-64.
Junior forward Summer King has had a solid season thus far, ranking second overall in the league with a .475 field goal percentage. She sits fourth in the league overall with 1.4 blocks per game and has at least one rejection in nine of her last 10 games. She is also the team's leading scorer (9.7 ppg) and rebounder (7.1 rpg). King leads the Raiders with 9.3 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. Chesley Koren (5.6 ppg), Nia Ahart (5.5) and Tegan Graham (5.4) are all next among active players in scoring, with all three shooting between 35 and 40 percent overall.
Colgate will be without the services of sophomore Rachel Thomspon, who went down with a season ending injury against Holy Cross on Dec. 29. Last year as a freshman, she ranked third on the team with 10.2 points.
UP NEXT
Lehigh will hit the road this Saturday for an afternoon matchup at Army West Point at 1 p.m.
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