Jan. 18, 2017
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -The Bryce Jordan Center is ready for another Big Ten Conference clash, as the Penn State women's basketball program hosts Nebraska on Thursday, Jan. 19. The Lady Lions and Cornhuskers will tip at 7 p.m. and tickets are still available by calling 1-800-NITTANY.
Promotions
- Dollar Dog Night: Get your hot dogs for just $1 at the BJC concession stands
- Halftime: Performance by the Penn State Dance Alliance Postgame
- Autographs: Teniya Page, Ashanti Thomas
Follow Along
- Fans can follow along with Thursday's game on Twitter (@PennStateWBB), or via live stats, live video or live audio with the links to the right.
Inside the PDF
- Ranking No. 11 in the NCAA, redshirt freshman Amari Carter sits No. 2 in the Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.19. MORE ON PAGE 3, 12 & 30
- Carter also netted a career-high 22 points on Wednesday at No. 3/3 Maryland, making 11 field goals on 19 attempts and handed out eight assists.
- True freshman Jaida Travascio-Green made her first career start on Jan. 3 vs. Iowa and scored a team-best 16 points on five 3-pointers. MORE ON PAGE 3, 13 & 50
- Sophomore Teniya Page posted her seventh 20-point game of the season on Wednesday at No. 3/3 Maryland, leading the team with 27 points. It is her 13th career game with 20-or-more points. MORE ON PAGE 8, 14 & 36
- In the classroom, the quartet of Sarah McMurtry, Kaliyah Mitchell, Lindsey Spann and Peyton Whitted all earned Dean's List honors in the fall semester. MORE ON PAGE 17
- 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 15 & 18
Series Notes
- Penn State and Nebraska will meet for the 11th time in program history. MORE ON PAGE 5
- The Lady Lions and Cornhuskers are knotted at five wins apiece, with Nebraska winning the last four meetings.
- Eight of the 10 meetings have come as members of the Big Ten Conference.
- The first meeting came on Jan. 2, 1993 at Penn State, with the Lady Lions earning an 102-66 victory.
- Nebraska won both meetings last season, winning 83-78 at the Bryce Jordan Center on Jan. 13, 2016 and 87-69 at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Feb. 2, 2016.
Scouting Nebraska
- Nebraska enters at 5-13 overall and 1-5 in Big Ten play. The B1G win came last week against Rutgers, 62-58, on Jan. 11.
- The Huskers are still searching for the first win away from home, owning a 0-7 mark away from Pinnacle Bank Arena. Nebraska is 0-5 in true road games and 0-2 in neutral site contests.
- Nebraska averaged 22.6 made field goals per game - including 6.7 3-pointers made per game - and are assisting on 65 percent of those makes. The Huskers average 14.9 assists per game, with seven players owning 20-plus helpers on the year.
- Overall, only one Nebraska player is averaging in double-figures, as sophomore forward Jessica Shepard enters the game averaging a double-double with 18.6 points and 10.3 rebounds in 18 games.
- In Big Ten play, Shepard is joined by Hannah Whitish in double-digit scoring. Shepard is pouring in 19.8 points per game in conference play and Whitish is averaging 11.3.
- Nicea Eliely paces in nearly every other statistical category, leading the Huskers with 50 assists, 13 blocked shots and 32 steals. She is second on the team in scoring average with 7.8 points per game in 18 starts.
Last Five Games
- Penn State owns a 2-3 record in its last five games, including wins over Iowa, 71-58, and Wisconsin, 76-46. All five games are conference tilts, with both wins at home and all three losses on the road.
- The Lady Lions 3-point pace has slowed down a bit, as the team is hitting just 5.6 shots from distance per game. On the season, the Lady Lions are making 6.6 shots per game from distance.
- Penn State's turnover margin has improved over the last five games, sitting at +4.0. That was aided by a pair of 20-plus turnover games by both Maryland and Wisconsin, in which Penn State only had 20 combined TOs.
- Teniya Page and Amari Carter are each averaging in double-figures over the last five games. Page leads the team with 13.8 points, while Carter has added 13.2 points per contest.
- Carter has also handed out 25 assists to just seven turnovers in that span, adding 4.8 rebounds per contest to her stat line, as well.
- Peyton Whitted leads the team in rebounding over the last five titls, pulling in 5.5 boards per game contest.
Last Time Out -- at Penn State 76, Wisconsin 46 (Jan. 16, 2017)
- Lindsey Spann moved to No. 37 all-time in scoring for the Lady Lions after her 17 points moved her career total to 991 points.
- Spann's 17 points on the night marked the 10th game of the season and 52nd game of her career scoring in double digits.
- This was also Spann's 21st career game with three or more 3-pointers.
- Kaliyah Mitchell surpassed the 600 rebound mark with the first of her game-high nine boards on the evening to bring her career total to 608.
- Siyeh Frazier hit her first career three pointer in the fourth quarter for the Lady Lions.
- Teniya Page's 11 points marked her 40th career game scoring double figures, while also scoring at least 10 points in 15-of-17 games this season.
- Jaida Travascio-Green scored 10 points for her third career double-digit game.
- Sierra Moore scored 10 points for her 10 double-digit game this season and 32nd of her career.
- Amari Carter posted her 11th game of the season with at least five assists and two-or-fewer turnovers.
- Carter tied for game-high with five assists and did not turn the ball over in the game.
- The last time Penn State defeated a Big Ten team by 30-or-more points was on Jan. 26, 2014 vs. Minnesota (83-53).
- Penn State blocked a season-high eight shots against the Badgers.
- Penn State's six turnovers tied for the lowest single game total in school history, with the last occurrence coming at Nebraska, Feb. 2, 2016.
Last Meeting - at Nebraska 87, Penn State 69 (Feb. 2, 2016)
- Kaliyah Mitchell scored 16 points to lead the team.
- Peyton Whitted posted her fifth double-double of the 2015-16 season with 12 points and a game-high 12 rebounds.
- It was the ninth double-digit rebound game and the 13th time Whitted led the team in rebounding in 2015-16.
- Teniya Page handed out a then-career-high seven assists.
- Page scored nine points in the game to move her freshman season total to 341 tallies, which ranked No. 11 in the Penn State rookie record books.
- Page played all 40 minutes, which was the second straight game she logged every minute of the game on the court.
- Brianna Banks logged her 16th double-figure scoring game of 2015-16 with 12 points.
- Lindsey Spann netted 12 points for her 15th double-digit scoring game of 2015-16.
- Spann connected on four 3-pointers, the seventh time she made three-or-more 3-pointers in a game in 2015-16 and the 10th time in her career to that point.
- Penn State committed a season-low six turnovers, tying for the fewest turnovers in a game in program history.
- The Lady Lions posted its fourth games of 2015-16 with single-digit turnovers, their most such games since having seven games in single digits during the 2003-04 season.
- Four different Lady Lions reached double-figures in the scoring column for the 12th time in 2015-16..
Next Up
- Penn State hits the road for a Monday night billing at Indiana on the Big Ten Network. The Lady Lions and Hoosiers will tipoff at 7 p.m. inside Assembly Hall with the game called by Lisa Byington and Shelley Till.
- Indiana claimed the first meeting between the two teams, 89-70, in the Big Ten opener on Jan. 28 inside the Bryce Jordan Center.