Feb. 10, 2017
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -The Penn State women's basketball program will honor seniors Sierra Moore, Kaliyah Mitchell and Peyton Whitted prior to its 2 p.m. tipoff vs. Purdue on Saturday, Feb. 11 inside the Bryce Jordan Center. The Lady Lions will look to extend their home-court winning streak to six games vs. the Boilermakers and avenge a loss to Purdue from earlier this season. Tickets are still available by calling 1-800-NITTANY.
Promotions
- Senior Day
- Jared Box: Bring a new, unwrapped toy to donate to Jared Box and receive a $10 Adult ticket and/or a $6 Youth ticket
- Cub Club Game: This is the final Cub Club Game of the year
- Postgame Autographs: Teniya Page, Sarah McMurtry
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
- Penn State will honor its three seniors on Saturday with a pregame ceremony. Seniors Kaliyah Mitchell, Sierra Moore and Peyton Whitted will each be honored prior to tipoff vs. Pudrdue.
- Ranking No. 13 in the NCAA, redshirt freshman Amari Carter sits No. 2 in the Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio. MORE ON PAGE 3, 12 & 30
- Sophomore Teniya Page registered a career-high 32 points on Feb. 1 at Ohio State, canning six 3-pointers and going 10-of-10 from the free throw line. MORE ON PAGE 8, 14 & 36
- True freshman Jaida Travascio-Green continues to move up the freshmen 3-pointers made charts after passing the 35-make mark at Northwestern. MORE ON PAGE 3, 13 & 50
- Penn State posted three-straight games with 10-or-fewer turnover from Jan. 16-23, marking the only time in program history that has occurred. MORE ON PAGE 15
- 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
Series Notes
- Saturday afternoon marks the 50th all-time meeting between Penn State and Purdue, with the Boilermakers owning a 30-19 edge in the series. MORE ON PAGE 5
- Last meeting at the Bryce Jordan Center came in 2015-16, a 88-78 victory in double overtime for Purdue
- This will be the second meeting of 2016-17, with Purdue claiming a 64-51 decision on Jan. 7 in Mackey Arena.
- Over the last 10 meetings, Penn State and Purdue have each won five games, with Purdue on a current three-game winning streak.
- The first meeting came on Dec. 21, 1988 with Purdue winning, 85-61, in Rec Hall.
Scouting Purdue
- Purdue enters with a 15+-10 overall record and a 6-5 mark in Big Ten play. The Boilermakers are 3-3 over the last six games, with their most recent contest ending in a 72-62 setback to Michigan at home.
- One key to Purdue's success this season has been limiting fouls. With only seven players seeing action in 10-or-more Big Ten games, the Boilermakers lead the Big Ten and rank No. 15 nationally with only 14.0 fouls per game.
- The Boilermakers also lead the Big Ten in scoring defense, allowing just 58.6 points per game in 25 games.
- Senior Ashley Morrissette leads the team in scoring average (15.4), assists (112) and steals (61) in 25 starts. She is shooting 41.6% from the field and 78.3% from the free throw line.
- Joining Morrissette in double-figure scoring are freshman Dominique Oden (10.7 ppg) and senior Bridget Perry (10.4 ppg).
- Sophomore forward Dominique McBryde averages a team-best 6.9 rebounds, adding 7.7 points per game.
- One of the top shot blockers in the country, Ae'Rianna Harris ranks No. 4 in the Big Ten and No. 42 nationally with 46 rejections in 25 games.
Last Five Games
- Penn State is 3-2 overall in the last five games, averaging 74.2 points per contest, while allowing 69.8 points, making the scoring margin plus-4.4 points per game
- The Lady Lions are plus-4.4 on the boards over the last five games, averaging 42.6 rebounds per game, including 13.4 rebounds on the offensive glass.
- Penn State has 74 assists, 33 steals and 19 blocked shots over the last five games.
- Teniya Page is averaging 21.8 points per game over her last five contests - all starts - and has added 22 assists (4.4 apg) and 19 boards (3.8 rpg).
- Page is shooting 22-of-23 from the free throw line (.957) - inlcuding 21-straight makes and 15-of-31 from 3-point range (.484).
- Also averaging in double-figures over the last five games is senior Sierra Moore with 12.0 points per game.
- Amari Carter is adding 23 assists (4.6 apg), while Moore is leading the way on the boards with 6.6 rebounds per game.
Last Time Out -- at Penn State 77, Minnesota 66 (Feb. 8, 2017)
- Teniya Page scored her 900th career point on a second quarter 3-pointer and ended the night with 918 career points.
- With her eight assists, Page moved her career total to 218, pushing her up two spots on the career charts into No. 25.
- Page has converted her last 21 attempts from the free throw line and hasn't missed a free throw since Jan. 23 at Indiana. The last
- Penn State streak of more than 20-straight made free throws came from Maggie Lucas (35) in 2013-14.
- Peyton Whitted added her name to the record books as she logged her 600th career rebound to become the 23rd member of Penn State's 600-rebound club. She now has 601 on the season.
- Jadia Travascio-Green moved into No. 6 on the freshman season 3-point field goals made list, hitting No. 36 and 37 on the season.
- Travascio-Green passed teammate Lindsey Spann who logged 36 in the 2014-15 season.
- Amari Carter logged seven assists to move her season total to 109 helper to rank No. 8 on the freshman season assists list.
- Lindsey Spann added yet another double digit scoring game to her resume with 13 points, marking her 55th career game with 10-plus points.
- Penn State's bench out-scored Minnesota's reserves, 23-13, to mark the 21st time this season the bench owned the scoring advantage.
- The Lady Lions turned the ball over just 10 times on the night, their fifth game in 2016-17 with 10-or-fewer turnovers.
- Penn State shot 90.0% from the free throw line to mark the second time this season they made at least 90% of their shots from the charity stripe.
- With 20 assists, Penn State posted its third game with at least 20 helper.
Last Meeting - at Purdue 64, Penn State 51 (Jan. 7, 2017)
- Lindsey Spann led the team with 10 points for her ninth double-figure scoring game of the season and 51st of her career.
- Spann connected on Penn State's lone 3-pointer in the fourth quarter.
- Furthermore, with her one assist, Spann was just one shy of producing 200 career assists.
- Ashanti Thomas scored six points and grabbed seven rebounds, equaling her high marks for Big Ten play.
- With four rebounds, Kaliyah Mitchell moved into a tie for No. 23 on the career rebounding charts with her 595th career carom. She was tied with Sue Martin, who wore the blue and white from 1977-80.
- Teniya Page had her nine-game streak in double-figures snapped, scoring six points.
- The Penn State bench continued to lead the way, outscoring the opposition's reserves 24-6.
- For the 10th time in 2016-17, Penn State owned the advantage in points in the paint, outscoring Purdue, 32-30 in the paint.
Next Up
Penn State will travel to Illinois (Feb. 14) and Michigan State (Feb. 22) before closing out the regular season at home vs. Michigan for the annual Play4Kay benefitting Pink Zone contest on Feb. 26. The Lady Lions will travel to Illinois for a Feb. 14 tilt, slated for an 8 p.m. ET tipoff.