Lehigh University Athletics
Wednesday, February 7
Lewisburg, Pa.
6 p.m.
Lehigh University
at
Bucknell
Lehigh to Wrap up Long Road Stretch with Visit to Bucknell on Wednesday
2/6/2018 5:32:00 PM | Women's Basketball
| GAME INFORMATION | |
| Matchup | Lehigh (13-9, 7-4 PL) at Bucknell (14-8, 8-3 PL) |
| Date/Time | Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018 – 6 p.m. |
| Location | Sojka Pavilion – Lewisburg, Pa. |
| Video Stream | Patriot League Network (PatriotLeague.TV) |
| Radio | ESPN Radio of the Lehigh Valley 1160/1230/1320 AM |
| Audio Stream | http://www.espnlv.com/ |
| Live Stats | Live Stats |
| Game Notes | Lehigh | Bucknell |
| @LehighWBB | |
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh women's basketball team will wrap up a lengthy road stretch of playing six of seven games on the road this Wednesday night when they travel to Bucknell. The Bison have won four games in a row and Lehigh is coming off a key road win on Saturday at Boston U., which snapped its first two-game losing streak of the season.
The two teams enter Wednesday separated by just one game, with Bucknell sitting in second place in the Patriot League standings, holding the tiebreaker with third place Navy, followed by Lehigh in fourth. The Mountain Hawks won the first matchup this season 66-62 back on January 11 at Stabler Arena. The teams have had similar parallels this season, both falling by double digits at American and by three-points to Loyola. Each team enters Wednesday averaging 63.4 points per game.
Lehigh is 3-2 over the last five games, has been held under 60 points in three of those five games, and has held their opponents to 56 points or less in four of those games. Bucknell has allowed opponents to score 60 points only once in its last six games and is 8-0 in league play when holding the opposition to less than 60 points.
ALL-TIME VS. BUCKNELL
Meeting for the 83rd time in program history, Lehigh holds a 43-39 record in the all-time series against the Bison.
Bucknell has won five of the last six matchups between the two schools, including nine of the last 13 dating back to the 2011-12 season. Prior to that, Lehigh bested the Bison in 10 straight games from 2008-2012. Three of Lehigh's last four wins over the Bison have come at Stabler Arena. Lehigh last defeated Bucknell at Sojka Pavilion on Feb. 20, 2013 by a score of 49-37. Over the last three seasons, all games have been decided by an average of 12.8 points.
Last season, Bucknell won a pair of 19-point decisions over Lehigh, with departed senior and PL Player of the Year Claire DeBoer leading the Bison in scoring in both games. Quinci Mann led Lehigh in scoring in both games, collecting her 1,000th career point at Bucknell on Feb. 8.
In the first matchup this year, Mann scored 25 of her then-career-high 27 points in the second half and Cameryn Benz chipped in 13 points as Lehigh went 7-for-12 from three-point range and 13-of-15 from the free throw line.
SCOUTING THE BISON
Sitting in second place in the Patriot League at 14-8 (8-3 PL), Bucknell is riding a four-game winning streak, tying its longest streak of the season. The preseason co-favorite to repeat as league champions, the Bison have defeated Holy Cross and Lafayette on the road, plus Boston U. and Navy at home, all by double digits. Bucknell is also 8-3 on their home floor, with their only home league blemish coming in their last loss, 69-65 to Loyola on Jan. 17.
Bucknell is only allowing 50.0 points per game during its current winning streak and ranks 39th in the nation from the free throw line (75.3 percent).
As a team, Bucknell leads the Patriot League with a rebounding margin of +8.5, more than twice as much as the next closest team. Their rebounding margin is also a PL best +11.0 in league play, with the next closest team (Loyola) at +3.0. Through 11 league games, the Bison sit second in the league by scoring 66.6 points per league contest and are second by allowing an average of 55.2 points. They are holding opponents to 37.6 percent from the field and 31.3 percent from three-point range in league games.
The Bison are led by senior Kate Walker, who has moved into the team lead with 12.9 points per game this season and ranks third during league play with 16.1 ppg. Junior forward and preseason all-league selection Kaitlyn Slagus scores 11.2 points and 8.2 rebounds per game, which ranks sixth in the league. Junior Kyi English scores 10.4 ppg and Catherine Romaine shoots a team-best 50.5 percent from the field.
UP NEXT
Lehigh will return home this Saturday afternoon to host first place American on Play4Kay and National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
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