Dec. 26, 2016
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The Penn State women's basketball program will open its Big Ten slate at home for the second-straight season when it hosts Indiana on Wednesday (Dec. 28) insdie the Bryce Jordan Center. The Lady Lions and Hoosiers will tipoff at 7 p.m. and the game will air live on the Penn State Sports Network and on BTN2go.com.
Promotions
- Cub Club Game: The game vs. the Hoosiers is the third of four Cub Club Games, which members of the Cub Club get into the game for FREE.
- Postgame Autographs: Sierra Moore and Kaliyah Mitchell.
Follow Along
- Fans can follow along with Wednesday's game on Twitter (@PennStateWBB), or via live stats, live video or live audio with the links to the right.
Inside the PDF
- Sophomore Teniya Page logged her third career 30-point game on Sunday, Dec. 18. Only one other Lady Lion has more 30-point games as a freshman and sophomore in program history. MORE ON PAGE 10 & 32
- After two career games played, redshirt freshman De'Janae Boykin is averaging 11.0 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. MORE ON PAGE 14 & 50
- Ranking No. 9 in the NCAA, redshirt freshman Amari Carter leads the Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.44. MORE ON PAGE 14 , 21 & 26
- Penn State is off to a great start at the Bryce Jordan Center, posting a win in each of its seven home games this season. MORE ON PAGE 8
- The Penn State's reserves have given the team a huge lift this season and are averaging 24.8 points per game. MORE ON PAGE 8 & 16
- Penn State became the 16th program in NCAA women's Division I basketball to earn 900 program wins on Nov. 13 vs. Saint Peter's. MORE ON PAGE 8 & 9
Scouting Indiana
- Indiana has been hard to slow down on offensive this season, entering the matchup averaging 82.7 points per game, which ranks No. 12 nationally and No. 3 in the Big Ten.
- The Hoosiers are hitting 50.1 percent of their shots from the field, which sits No. 4 in the NCAA and No. 2 in the Big Ten, just behind the nation's best 51.5 percent shooting by Maryland.
- Indiana is No. 11 in the NCAA with 199 made free throws and to compound that, the Hoosiers are committing just 9.6 fouls per game to limit the oppositions trips to the line.
- Junior Tyra Buss is averaging 19.8 points per game to rank tied for No. 4 in the Big Ten and No. 25 nationally. She also leads the team with 21 steals and is No. 2 on the squad with 48 helpers.
- Amanda Cahill and Alexis Gassion are also averaging in double figures at 13.9 and 13.8 points per game, respectively. The duo also leads the team in rebounding with Cahill grabbing a team-best 8.8 boards per game and Gassion hauling in 7.0 rebounds per contest.
Series Notes
- Penn State and Indiana will meet for the 44th time in program history. MORE ON PAGE 5.
- The Lady Lions are 32-11 all-time against the Hoosiers, including an 18-2 edge at home.
- Penn State has won seven of the last 10 meetings, but IU has won each of the last two games.
- The first meeting came on Jan. 16, 1982, with Penn State winning, 83-74, in Rec Hall.
- The two teams met only once last season, with Indiana claiming a 76-55 decision in Bloomington in the regular season finale.
Last Time Out -- at Penn State 80, Iona 67 (Dec. 20, 2016)
- Teniya Page scored 11 points, eclipsing the 700-point milestone for her career.
- Page was 5-of-7 from the floor, adding a team-best six assists to mark her 22nd career game with at least 10 points and five assists, and her 36th game scoring in double figures.
- Page reached double-figures for the seventh-straight game.
- She added two rebounds and a steal in the game.
- Lindsey Spann moved to No. 9 all-time in career 3-pointers made after dropping three against the Gaels. Spann, with 123 career 3's is now one shy of Tina Nicholson for eighth place.
- De'Janae Boykin topped her career-bests in both points with 12 and rebounds with nine against the Gaels. She tacked on a steal.
- Kaliyah Mitchell joined Spann in double figures with 11 points on 5-of-6 shooting from the floor. She added four rebounds.
- Jaida Travascio-Green put up six points, two blocks and a rebound.
- With two rejections in the first quarter, Travascio-Green had her first career multi-block game.
- Penn State stays undefeated at home on the season, currently with a 7-0 record inside the Bryce Jordan Center during the 2016-17 season. It is the 14th time the team has opened 7-0 at home all-time and the third time in the Coquese Washington era.
- With 30 points off the bench, Penn State saw the bench contribute 30 or more points for the fourth time this season..
Last Five Games
- Penn State owns a 5-0 record in its last five games and enter today's matchup riding a six-game winning streak. The winning streak is the longest since reeling off six-straight victories from Jan. 16-Feb. 2, 2014.
- Penn State owns a +17.0 scoring margin in its last five games, owning a 81.4-64.4 scoring edge.
- The Lady Lions have out-rebounded each of their last five opponents and own a +8.2 edge on the boards overall in the last five games.
- Three players are averaging in double-figures for Penn State over the last five games, led by Teniya Page's 20.4 points per game. Lindsey Spann is tallying 14.2 points a contest and De'Janae Boykin is averaging 11 .0 points a game.
- Boykin leads the way on the glass with 7.5 rebounds per game, while Sierra Moore is pulling down 4.8 boards per contest over the last five games.
- Amari Carter continues to value the basketball, posting just 2.0 turnovers per game in the last five games. She also has 26 assists and eight steals in that time frame.
Last Meeting - at Indiana 76, Penn State 55 (Feb. 27, 2016
- Brianna Banks led the team with 13 points, her 22nd double-digit effort of the season.
- Banks added a career-best-tying seven rebounds, equaling her total from games vs. Northwestern (12/31) and Purdue (1/30).
- The senior also added two of the team's three steals and handed out two assists.
- Peyton Whitted moved past the 500 career point mark with an eight-point effort at Indiana, ending with 504 career points.
- Whitted also tied for team-high with seven boards, the 17th time in 2015-16 she has led or tied for the team lead in rebounds.
- Whitted's seven rebounds gave her 234 on the season, moving her into a tie for No. 30 on the single season charts with Mia Nickson (2010-11).
- Teniya Page handed out six assists for her 11th game of the season with at least five assists.
- Page led the team in assists for the 19th time in 2015-16 and moved her season total to 118 helpers, which sat No. 7 on the all-time freshman charts at Penn State.
- Page started her 29th game of the season to move her into a tie for No. 9 on the Penn State freshman starts list. Her 29 starts tied Brianna O'Rourke (2005-06).
- The 55 points scored by Penn State marked just the third time in Big Ten play that Penn State was held to fewer than 60 points.
Next Up
- After four-straight home games, Penn State will hit the road for a key early season road test at Rutgers on January 31. The Lady Lions and Scarlet Knights will tip off at Noon and the game will be carried live on the Big Ten Network and on the Penn State Radio Network .