Jan. 6, 2017
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -The Penn State women's basketball program will hit the road for a conference clash with Purdue inside Mackey Arena on Saturday, Jan. 7 at 2 p.m. The contest between the Lady Lions and Boilermakers is available on the Penn State Sports Network and at 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 & 34
Ranking No. 16 in the NCAA, redshirt freshman Amari Carter sits No. 2 in the Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.96. MORE ON PAGE 3, 12 & 28
Graduate student Sierra Moore made her first start since March 4, 2015 at Rutgers on Jan. 31. MORE ON PAGE 15 & 32
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 & 48 - The Penn State's reserves have given the team a huge lift this season and are averaging 23.7 points per game. MORE ON PAGE 8 & 18
- 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 9 & 16
Scouting Purdue
- Purdue enters the game with a 10-6 overall record and a 1-1 mark in Big Ten play. The Boilermakers fell at Northwestern, 60-76, on Dec. 31 before taking down Michigan State, 66-54, at home on Jan. 4.
- The Boilermakers and Lady Lions share one non-conference opponent, with each defeating Pittsburgh.
- As a team, Purdue is limiting the opposition to just 55.6 points per game and own a plus-9.4 points per game average.
Purdue does the little things right, ranking No. 38 nationally in turnovers per game (13.6) and No. 19 nationally in fouls per game (14.1). - There are three Purdue players averaging in double-figures, led by senior Ashley Morrissette's 14.6 points per game. She also leads the team with 68 assists and 24 steals in 16 games.
- Bridget Perry and Dominique Oden are each in doble-digits with 10.7 and 10.5 points per game, respectively.
- The inside presence for Purdue is strong, with Perry, Dominique McBryde and Ae'Rianna Harris all averaging better than 4.5 rebounds per game. McBryde leads the team with 6.4 rebounds per game, while Harris adds a team-best 24 blocked shots to 4.7 boards per contest. Both McBryde and Perry each have 14 rejections on the season, as well.
Series Notes
- Saturday afternoon marks the 49th all-time meeting between Penn State and Purdue, with the Boilermakers owning a 29-19 edge in the series. MORE ON PAGE 5
- The two teams met one in the regular season in 2015-16, a 88-78 victory in double overtime for Purdue, while the Boilermakers also claimed a 70-59 decision in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament.
- Over the last 10 meetings, Penn State and Purdue have each won five games, with Purdue on a current two-game winning streak.
- The first meeting came on Dec. 21, 1988 with Purdue winning, 85-61, in Rec Hall.
Last Time Out -- at Penn State 71, Iowa 58 (Jan. 7, 2017)
- Jaida Travascio-Green made her first career start vs. Iowa and led the team in scoring for the second time in her career with 16 points.
- Travascio-Green netted a career-high-tying five 3-pointers on 10 attempts.
- Kaliyah Mitchell scored six points to move her career total to 801 points in 108 games played.
- Amari Carter scored 13 points for her second-straight double-digit scoring game.
- Carter pulled down a career-best eight rebounds and handed out six assists, her eighth game with five-or-more assists this season.
- Teniya Page reached double-figures for the ninth-straight game with 11 points.
- Sierra Moore added 10 points in the win for her eighth double-figure scoring game of the season off the bench.
- De'Janae Boykin corralled a career-high three steals.
- The Lady Lions used the fourth different starting lineup of the season vs. Iowa, including the second-straight game with a new starting five.
- Penn State held Iowa to a season-low-tying 58 points scored, equaling the Hawkeye output from earlier this season vs. Notre Dame.
- Penn State forced 18 turnovers in the game, marking the ninth time this season they have forced 16-plus opponent missteps in a game.
- The Penn State bench outscored Iowa's reserves, 25-6, marking the 14th time in 15 games Penn State has held the edge in bench points.
Last Five Games
- Penn State enters the meeting with Purdue with a 3-2 record in the last five games. Penn State dropped its only road contest in that span at Rutgers, 61-45, on New Year's Eve.
- Penn State is being outscored 340-336 in the last five games, but are dominating the boards with a 37.8-31.4 edge in rebounding average.
- The 3-point line has been a difference, with the opposition hitting 37 3-pointers and shooting 38.5 percent, while Penn State has 31 made shots from distance at a 33.0 percent clip.
- Penn State also has a -1.0 turnover margin in the last five games, committing 17.0 missteps per game to just 16.0 for the opponent.
- Teniya Page is the lone Lady Lion averaging in double-figures over the last five games, scoring 19.5 points in four starts.
- Jaida Travascio-Green ranks No. 2 on the squad with 8.8 points per game in that span, connecting on 12 3-pointers.
Last Meeting - Purdue 70, Penn State 59 - Big Ten Tournament (March 3, 2016)
- Teniya Page started her 31st game of the season, which ties her for No. 5 in the freshman record books.
- Page's game-high 18 points gave her 25 games in double digits in 2015-16.
- Page played every minute (80) of Penn State's two games at the Big Ten Tournament. The two 40-minute efforts were her eighth and ninth games of 40 minutes in 2015-16.
- With four assists, Page notched her 17 game in 2015-16 with at least 10 points and four assists.
- Lindsey Spann netted two more made three-point baskets, pushing her season total to 65 makes, which tied Kelly Mazzante for No. 11 on the single season charts.
- Peyton Whitted posted her seventh career double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds.
- The 13 rebounds pushed her season total to 256 boards, moving her into the No. 21 spot on the single season charts.
- Kaliyah Mitchell reached the 100-assist milestone, handing out one assist to sit squarely on the century mark.
- Candice Agee posted two blocked shots to give her 119 career rejections and mark her 34th multi-block effort of her career.
- The three made three-point field goals pushed Penn State's season total to 152 made shots from distance, moving them into No. 12 on the single season charts.
- The six first quarter points scored by Purdue were the fewest allowed in an opening quarter in 2015-16 and tied for the fewest given up in any quarter by Penn State. Northwestern (2nd, 2/17) and Central Connecticut State (3rd, 11/22) also scored just six points in a quarter.
Next Up
- Penn State will travel to College Park, Md. for a 7 p.m. tipoff on Wednesday, Jan. 11 at Maryland. The Lady Lions and Terrapins will be carried on the Penn State Radio Network and at BTN2go.com.