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Postgame Notes: Lady Lions vs. Northwestern (Jan. 25, 2015)

Jan. 25, 2015

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Penn State Women's Basketball
Postgame Notes vs. Northwestern
1/25/15

INDIVIDUAL NOTES

-Sophomore Kaliyah Mitchell posted her second straight double-double with 10 points and a career-high 15 rebounds. It is the first time a Lady Lion has posted consecutive double-doubles since Nikki Greene did so on Jan. 27 and Jan. 30, 2011.

-Mitchell posted her eighth double-figure scoring game of the season and fourth 10-plus rebound effort vs. Northwestern.

-She also added a career-high four assists, besting her previous high of three set vs. Indiana on Thursday, Jan. 22.

-Mitchell's 15 rebounds were the most for a Penn State player since Nikki Greene¬ had 16 boards in the NCAA Tournament game at LSU on March 26, 2013.
-Sophomore Alex Harris scored a career-high 11 points vs. Northwestern and grabbed 10 rebounds to post her first career double-double. She is the sixth Lady Lion to record a double-double this season, with all of them marking their first such career efforts.

-The double figure scoring effort was the first of Harris' career, while she pulled down 10-or-more rebounds for the fourth time in her career.

-Harris set career-highs in field goals made (5) and field goals attempted (7) and matched career-high with one steal against the Wildcats.

-Sophomore Sierra Moore moved past the 300 career point plateau vs. Northwestern with 18 points. She now has 304 career points, with 241 coming in a Lady Lion uniform. She also scored 63 points during her freshman season at Duke in 2012-13.

-Moore equaled her career-highs with seven made field goals and 19 field goal attempts.

-Senior Tori Waldner recorded a season-high four assists vs. Northwestern, which is one shy of her career-high five vs. Illinois State last season.

-Sophomore Peyton Whitted reached double figures in the scoring column in consecutive games for the first time in her career on Sunday vs. Northwestern. She had 11 points vs. the Wildcats after scoring a career-best 12 points vs. Indiana on Thursday (1/22).

-Junior Candice Agee made a career-high six free throws vs. Northwestern on her way to her ninth double figure scoring game this season. She finished with 10 points vs. the Wildcats.

-Agee's free throw with 10 seconds remaining to give Penn State the win marked the first "final minute" game-winning shot since Alex Bentley had a three-pointer with 38.9 seconds left at Minnesota on Feb. 5, 2011.
-Sophomore Keke Sevillian tied her career-best with three made field goals vs. Northwestern.

TEAM NOTES
-The Lady Lions are now 34-7 all-time against Northwestern and own a nine game winning streak in the series. Penn State is 20-1 all-time at home against the Wildcats.

-Penn State watched as five players reached double figures in the scoring column for the second straight game on Sunday vs. Northwester. The last time that happened came during the 2010-11 season.

- 2014-15 Season: vs. Indiana (1/22/15): Mitchell (20), Moore (15), Agee (13), Whitted (12), Lindsey Spann (11); vs. Northwestern (1/25/15): Moore (18), Harris (11), Whitted (11), Mitchell (10), Agee (10).

- 2010-11 Season: vs. Ohio State (1/30/11): Alex Bentley (21), Maggie Lucas (18), Julia Trogele (14), Nikki Greene (12), Mia Nickson (10); at Michigan (2/3/11): Lucas (23), Greene (14), Zhaque Gray (11), Bentley (11), Trogele (10).

-Penn State had a season-high 31 bench points vs. Northwestern. It is the most bench points scored by the Lady Lions since logging 32 vs. Alcorn State on Dec. 22, 2013.

-Penn State had two players with double-doubles for the second time this season. The last came vs. USF when Agee and Moore both accomplished the feat.

- The Lady Lions hit the road for a pair of games next week at Minnesota (Wednesday) and Rutgers (Sunday). Penn State is back in the BJC against Maryland on Thursday, Feb. 5.