Dec. 30, 2016
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The Penn State women's basketball program will hit the road for the first time in 24 days as they play Rutgers inside the Rutgers Athletic Center on Saturday, Dec. 31 at Noon. The contest between the Lady Lions and Scarlet Knights will air live on the Big Ten Network and the game also be available on the Penn State Sports Network and on BTN2go.com.
Follow Along
- Fans can follow along with Saturday'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
- Ranking No. 16 in the NCAA, redshirt freshman Amari Carter leads the Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.05. MORE ON PAGE 14 , 21 & 26
- The Penn State's reserves have given the team a huge lift this season and are averaging 24.5 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 Rutgers
- Rutgers enters the contest with a 3-11 overall record and a 0-1 mark in Big Ten play after dropping its conference opener, 63-50, at Michigan on Wednesday, Dec. 28.
- The Scarlet Knights rank No. 4 in the Big Ten and No. 85 nationally allowing 59.4 points per game. Their 48.8 points scored per game rank No. 339 out of 344 team in Division I.
- Rutgers is forcing 15.6 turnovers per game, with 8.4 of those coming via steals.
- Kandiss Barber leads the team in scoring at 9.6 points per game, while Shrita Parker is close behind at 9.1 points per contest.
- Shadaizha Sanders leads the team with 58 assists and 31 steals, while chipping in 7.7 points per game.
- Desiree Keeling is leading the team with 7.1 rebounds per game.
Series Notes
- Penn State and Rutgers will meet for the 42nd time in program history. More on Page 5.
- The Lady Lions are 18-23 all-time against the Scarlet Knights, with the series even at 5-5 over the last 10 meetings. However, Rutgers has won the last four meetings.
- This will be only the fourth meeting as Big Ten foes.
- Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer has a 19-14 record all-time vs. Penn State. She has faced PSU as the head coach at Cheyney (10-5), Iowa (4-7) and Rutgers (5-2).
Last Time Out -- Indiana 89, at Penn State 79 (Dec. 28, 2016)
- Lindsey Spann moved into sole possession in 3-point field goals made with 125.0
- Spann started the game 3-for-3 from the field.
- Spann finished the contest with 14 points, which moved her into 38th all-time in points (954).
- Spann recorded her 50th career game in double figures and the eighth of the season.
- Peyton Whitted finished the evening with four points to eclipse the 600-point mark as a Lady Lion. She now has 601 career points.
- Whitted has recorded at least three rebounds in all but one game this season.
- Teniya Page tallied 26 points to mark her eighth-straight game in double figures and her 37th career game in double figures.
- Page led the Nittany Lions in scoring for the eighth time this season.
- Page posted her 12th career 20-point game and her sixth of the season.
- Page tied her career high with 10 made field goals.
- Kaliyah Mitchell recorded two rebounds, which moves her into a tie for 24th all-time in rebounds at Penn State (583).
- Mitchell recorded four points, which moves her five points shy of 800.
Last Five Games
- Penn State is 4-1 in its last five games, seeing a six-game winning streak snapped on Wednesday vs. Indiana.
- Penn State owns a +12.8 scoring margin in its last five games, owning a 79.0-66.2 scoring edge.
- Over the last five games, Penn State's bench players have given the team a boost, averaging 27.0 points per game. On the flip side of that, the opposition is getting just 12.6 points per game out of its bench.
- The Lady Lions are plus-3.0 in turnover margin in the last five games, averaging 8.8 steals per game.
- Teniya Page leads the team with 19.4 points per game over the last five contests. Her 24 assists and 11 steals are also tops on the team over that span.
- Page only has 10 turnovers in the last five games and has hit 31-of-36 free throws (86.1%).
- Lindsey Spann is the only other Lady Lion in double figures in the scoring column at 14.0 points per game.
Last Meeting - Rutgers 74, at Penn State 62 (Feb. 7, 2016)
- Candice Agee recorded the 600th point of her Lady Lion career late in the second quarter. Her five points vs. Rutgers leave her at 600 career points.
- Teniya Page jumped two spots to No. 9 on the Penn State freshman scoring list, dropping 18 points vs. Rutgers to move her season total to 359 points.
- Page passed Lisa Shepard (349, 1997-98) and Tanisha Wright (355, 200-01) on the afternoon.
- Page led the Lady Lions in scoring for the sixth time this season and her 18 points give her 19 games with at least 10 points this season.
- Page added a team-high four assists, to mark the 12th time this season she has had 10-plus points to go along with at least four assists.
- Page played all 40 minutes vs. Rutgers, the third straight game she has played every minute.
- Peyton Whitted tallied nine points and six rebounds vs. Rutgers.
- Lindsey Spann finished the game with 13 points, her 16th double-digit scoring game of the season and 36th of her career.
- She led the Lady Lions in rebounding with a career-best and game-high nine boards. It is just the second time in her career she has led the team in rebounding.
- Brianna Banks tallied 12 points for the Lady Lions for her 17th double-digit scoring effort of the season.
- For the fifth time in 2015-16, the Lady Lions recorded ten or more steals, ending the game with 10 thefts.
Next Up
- Penn State will return home for a 7 p.m. tipoff on Jan. 3, 2017 vs. Iowa on the Big Ten Network at the Bryce Jordan Center. The Lady Lions and Hawkeyes will also be carried on the Penn State Radio Network and at BTN2go.com.