Nov. 14, 2015
| GAME TWO | |
| Sunday, November 15 - 2 p.m. ET | |
| Bryce Jordan Center | University Park, Pa.. | |
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. --The Penn State women's basketball team host Fordham on Sunday (Nov. 15) at 2 p.m. inside the Bryce Jordan Center in the second game of the 2015-16. Penn State claimed an overtime victory over Holy Cross, 86-82, to open its season on Friday night and will look to improve to 2-0 for the ninth time in the last 10 seasons.
Promotions
// Poster Pickup -- Fans will be able to pick up their 2015-16 women's basketball season poster.
Season, Single Game & Group Tickets
// Season, single game and group ticket packages for the 2015-16 campaign are currently on sale.
// To purchase tickets or for information on group ticket experiences, fans can visit http://bit.ly/PSUWBBTickets, call 1-800-NITTANY, visit Virtual Venue and chose your seats, or visit the Bryce Jordan Center ticket office weekdays from 10 a.m-6 p.m.
B1G Mini Plan
// The Big Ten Mini Plan will feature your chance to see each Big Ten home game at a greater than 30% discount over single game tickets. You will have the same seats for each game and have the ability to post for resale on TicketMaster+, the only authorized resale marketplace of Penn State Athletics.
// Big Ten Mini Plans for the sideline package are $90 for adult and $63 for youth, while baseline tickets are $63 and $45, respectively. Big Ten Mini Plan can be purchased by clicking here.
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Series Notes
// Penn State leads the all-time series, 2-0.
// #15/13 Penn State claimed a 78-61 victory over Fordham in the more recent meeting on Nov. 10, 2013 at the Bryce Jordan Center.
// An NCAA Tournament first round meeting on March 16, 1994 went the way of the No. 1-seeded Lady Lions, 91-41, at Rec Hall.
// Penn State and Fordam's 2013 meeting came in the second game of the season, as well.
// Fordham head coach Stephanie V. Gaitley has met Penn State seven previous times, including the 2013 meeting at Fordham. Six of her seven previous meetings came as head coach of St. Joseph's (1991-2001.
At A Glance
// Senior Brianna Banks led the Lady Lions with 20 points in an 84-58 exhibition win over Cal (Pa.) on Nov. 1, 2015. Banks led four players in double figures, including double-doubles from Kaliyah Mitchell and Peyton Whitted.
// Head coach Coquese Washington enters her ninth season at the helm of the Lady Lion program. Washington has won 148 games through her first eight season, including four 20-win seasons and three Big Ten regular season titles (2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14).
// Junior guard Sierra Moore will miss the 2015-16 season due to injury (knee). Moore averaged 12.1 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.8 assists, and added 15 blocked shots and 35 steals in 30 games last season.
// The 2015 recruiting class was ranked 15th nationally by ESPN.com/Hoopgurlz, marking the third top-15 and fourth top-25 class signed by Washington.
// The freshmen class features a pair of guards, Amari Carter and Teniya Page, and two post players, Ashanti Thomas and Jaylen Williams. Carter and Page were each rated as five-star recruits coming out of high school, with Page ranking 27th and Carter sitting 32nd in the final ESPN.com/HoopGurlz player rankings. Thomas and Williams were ranked 87th and 80th, respectively.
// The Lady Lions return 91 percent of their scoring, 90 percent of their assists and steals, 88 percent of their minutes played and 86 percent of their rebounds from a season ago.
Scouting Fordham
// Fordham head coach Stephanie V. Gaitley has tangled with Penn State on eight occasions, including once in her first four years at Fordham, Gaitley is 0-8 all-time vs. PSU, with six of those meetings coming while she was at St. Joseph's and PSU was a member of the Atlantic 10.
// Fordham finished last season with a 21-12 overall record and advanced to the second round of the WNIT.
// The Rams fell to St. John's, 77-63, in the second rounds of the 2015 WNIT. They defeated Central Connecticut State, 70-67, in the opening round.
// Sophomore G'mrice Davis recorded a double-double with 22 points and 12 rebounds in an exhibition win over Caldwell. She connected on 11-of-13 field goals.
// Senior Samantha Clark was the team's leading rebounder last season, averaging 7.6 boards per game.
// Clark also led the team with 37 blocks in 33 games played.
// Junior Hannah Missry is the team's leading returning scorer, averaging 9.3 points per game in 2015-16. She made a team-best 78 three-pointers, more than twice than her closest teammate.
Last Time Out
Penn State 86, Holy Cross 82 - Sunday, Nov. 13
// Five Lady Lions made their first career appearances donning the Blue and White; senior Brianna Banks and freshmen Amari Carter, Teniya Page, Jaylen Williams and Ashanti Thomas.
// Additionally, Banks, Page and Thomas made their first career starts for Penn State..
// Junior Peyton Whitted notched a career-best 22 points and 11 rebounds to collect her first career double-double.
// Brianna Banks added a career-high-tying 20 points.
// Freshman Teniya Page handed out seven assists to go along with 15 points.
// Senior Candice Agee swatted three shots to move her career total to 90 blocked shots and move into the No. 12 spot on PSU's all-time charts.
// Penn State improved to 40-12 in season openers and 44-8 in home openers, including a 17-3 mark at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Working Overtime
// Penn State opened the season with an 86-82 overtime victory vs. Holy Cross and are now 21-18 all-time in overtime.
// The season opening overtime contest marked just the third time PSU opened a season with extra time.
// The Lady Lions are 2-1 all-time in season opening overtime games. The also won at Dayton, Nov. 12, 2010, but lost, 93-84, to Connecticut on Nov. 25, 1989 in a game played at Iowa.
// The overtime victory marked the first overtime victory for PSU since the Nov. 18, 2010 at Oakland (96-89). Penn State had lost three straight overtime contests.
Agee Sending It Back
// Senior Candice Agee blocked three shots vs. Holy cross to move into the No. 12 spot all-time at Penn State.
// Her three swats helped her pass the 89 rejections by Kathy Phillips (1989-92) for the No. 12 spot.
// Agee has 25 career contests with two-or-more blocks.
// The Victorville, Calif., native enjoyed a 13-game streak with at least on blocked shot in 2014-15. She rejected shots in each game from Jan. 6 - Feb. 26, 2015.
// Agee recorded a career-high five blocks in a win over Rider on Dec. 14, 2014.
// Agee is looking to become just the 10th player in Penn State history to register 1.0 blocks per game for a career. She is currently at 1.02 bpg.
Washington Wins Openers
// Head coach Coquese Washington has started each of her nine seasons at the helm of the Lady Lions with a victory.
// In seven of the previous eight years, Penn State has began the year with at least two victories.
// Washington is 7-0 in season openers at home and 2-0 in season openers played on the road.
// Washington is unblemished in home openers, as well, winning all nine of her initial games in front of the home crowd since taking over in 2007-08.
Moore Out for 2015-16
// Junior guard Sierra Moore will miss the 2015-16 season due to injury (knee).
// Moore averaged 12.1 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.8 assists, and added 15 blocked shots and 35 steals in 30 games last season.
// After sitting out the 2013-14 season, Moore was the only Lady Lion to start all 30 games and averaged a season-high 34.1 minutes per game.
Whitted Doubling Up
// Junior Peyton Whitted opened her junior season with a 22-point, 11 rebound effort against Holy Cross to collect her first career double-double.
// She set career-highs in points, field goals made (eight), rebounds, assists (three) and minutes played (38).
// Her 6-of-8 effort from the free throw stripe also set career marks for attempts and makes in a game.
// Whitted also posted a double-double in the Lady Lions' exhibition contest vs. Cal (Pa.) with 16 points and 10 rebounds.
Nice Opener for Newcomers
// All five Penn State newcomers saw time on the floor vs. Holy Cross in the season opener.
// Three newcomers; senior Brianna Banks, and freshmen Teniya Page and Ashanti Thomas all started their first games in the blue and white.
// Banks ranked second on the team in scoring with 20 points, while Page also reached double figures with 15 points.
// Page handed out seven assists, grabbed two rebounds and had one steal in the contest.
// Thomas chipped in seven points, six rebounds and one blocked shot in her first collegiate game.
// Freshmen Amari Carter and Jaylen Williams each scored two points in the contest.
2016 Pink Zone at Penn State
// The 10th Annual Pink Zone at Penn State will be held Sunday, January 17 in the Bryce Jordan Center when the Lady Lions take on Michigan. The time for the game will be 2 p.m. ET.
// Last year, the Lady Lions donated $999,999 after setting a record with $310,000 raised for breast cancer causes in 2013-14.
// All totaled, the Lady Lions have donated more than $1.375 million for breast cancer research and awareness in the first nine years.
// Money raised this year will be disbursed to six different beneficiaries: Mount Nittany Medical Center, The Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, The Kay Yow Cancer Fund, PA Breast Cancer Coalition, JC Blair Memorial Hospital, and Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital.
// For more information on the Pink Zone at Penn State, visit the official Pink Zone website at www.pennsylvaniapinkzone.org.
Three McDonald's All-Americans
// The Lady Lions tout three McDonald's High School All-Americans on their roster this season in Candice Agee, Sierra Moore and Brianna Banks.
// Banks played in the 2011 contest, while Agee and Moore were participants in the 2012 game.
// Prior to Coquese Washington taking the reins, the Lady Lions only had one McDonald's High School All-American in program history.
Record Setting Academics
A school-record seven Lady Lions earned Academic All-Big Ten honors during the 2014-15 academic year.
// The seven academic award winners surpassed the six honorees from the 2003-04, 2008-09 and 2012-13 squads.
// Jenny DeGraaf, Molly Dincher, Kaliyah Mitchell, Sierra Moore, Lindsey Spann, Tori Waldner and Peyton Whitted all earned carried at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA through their competition season.
// Waldner was also named to the Big Ten Distinguished Scholars list, awarded to student-athletes that held a 3.7 or higher GPA during the academic year.
Adding Two for 2016-17
// Head coach Coquese Washington and her coaching staff added a pair of top-25 guards during the early signing period in Siyeh Frazier and Jaida Travascio-Green.
// The 5-foot-11 Frazier averaged 18.5 points and nine rebounds per game as a junior at Renaissance High School in Detroit, Mich.
// She added nearly seven assists and six steals per game to earn AP All-State honors and Detroit Free Press Dream Team.
// An all-conference performer since her freshman year of high school, Travascio-Green garnered all-state honors after averaging 17 points, six rebounds, nearly four assists and two steals per game as a junior.
// A state qualifier and school-record holder in the high jump, Travascio-Green earned 2015 honorable mention all-state from the Chicago Tribune.