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Postgame Notes: at Maryland (Jan. 11)

Jan. 12, 2017

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Penn State Women's Basketball
Postgame Notes at Maryland
Jan. 11, 2016


INDIVIDUAL NOTES
// Redshirt freshman Amari Carter scored a career-high 22 points on 11-of-19 shooting.
// Carter handed out eight assists with just two turnover, marking the 10th time in 2016-17 she finished a game with at least five assists and fewer than two turnovers.
// In a career-high 39 minutes, Carter added four rebounds and one steal.
// Sophomore Teniya Page tallied a team-best 27 points, hitting a career-best six 3-pointers.
// Page connected on 6-of-10 shots from 3-point range, including four in the first half.
// The six made 3-pointers are the most for a Penn State player since Lindsey Spann made seven at Minnesota on Jan. 3, 2016.
// Playing 40 minutes, Page produced her ninth career game of at least 40 minutes.
// Sophomore Ashanti Thomas scored a career-high 11 points, marking the first double-figure scoring game of her career.
// Thomas made 5-of-6 shots from the field and connected on her only free throw.
// Junior Lindsey Spann reached the 200 career assist plateau with her first quarter helper. She is just the 31st player in Penn State history to reach the 200-assist mark.
// Graduate student Sierra Moore posted her ninth double-digit scoring game of the season with 10 points.
// With 10 points, Moore moved past the 500-point mark in her Penn State career, ending the night with 509 career tallies.

TEAM NOTES
// Penn State is now 14-12 all-time versus Maryland.
// The Lady Lions hit eight 3-pointers in the game, giving them nine games this season with eight-or-more made shots from distance.
// Forcing 21 Maryland turnovers, Penn State notched its fifth game of the season forcing at least 20 turnovers.
// Penn State's 26 points in the fourth quarter tie for its most in the game's final quarter this season.
// The Lady Lion reserves outscored the opposition's bench for the 16th time in 17 games this season.
// The loss marks the first time in 2016-17 that Penn State lost a game it scored 80-or-more points in. The Lady Lions are now 6-1 in such games.