Postgame Notes: vs. Nebraska (Jan. 19, 2017)Postgame Notes: vs. Nebraska (Jan. 19, 2017)

Postgame Notes: vs. Nebraska (Jan. 19, 2017)

Jan. 19, 2017

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Penn State Women's Basketball
Penn State vs. Nebraska
Jan. 19, 2017


INDIVIDUAL NOTES
// Junior Lindsey Spann became the 37th member of the Lady Lions' 1000-point club with 14 points tonight, doing so in just 78 games.
// She is also now the 19th member of the 1000-point, 200-assist club, ending the night with two assists to push her career total to 204 helpers and 1,005 points.
// Spann has 11 double-figure scoring games this season and 53 for her career.
// Sophomore Teniya Page surpassed the 800-point mark with 18 points on the evening, ending the night with 809 points.
// Tonight marked Page's 15th double-figure scoring game of the season and 41st of her career.
// Adding a team-best five assists, it was her 23rd career game of at least 10 points and 4 assists, and her 17th career game with 5-plus helpers.
//Page led the Blue and White in both scoring and assists in the same game for the 11th time in her career.
// Senior Peyton Whitted scored 14 points for her fourth double-digit game of the season and 23rd of her career.
// Sierra Moore tied her season-high in assists with four vs. Nebraska.
// Jaida Travascio-Green posted back-to-back double-figure scoring games for the first time in her career with 10 points vs. Nebraska. She also had 10 points in the victory over Wisconsin on Jan. 16.
// Travascio-Green's passed Jess Brungo for No. 8 on the freshman 3-pointers made charts, moving her career total to 29 connections from distance. Brungo made 27 triples in 2000-01.
// The three made 3-pointers give Travascio-Green five games with at least three makes from long range.
// Senior Kaliyah Mitchell blocked a career-best four shots vs. Nebraska. Her previous high was three swats, which came vs. No. 13/13 Tennessee on Nov. 20, 2016.

TEAM NOTES
// Penn State is now 6-5 all-time against Nebraska, snapping a four-game winning streak by the Huskers.
// Penn State is 10-1 inside the Bryce Jordan Center in 2016-17.
// Penn State notched 37 bench points against the Cornhuskers, marking the second consecutive game with over 35 bench points.
// Penn State's 10 turnovers tonight marked the second consecutive game the Lady Lions had 10-or-fewer missteps. Penn State turned the ball over only six times vs. Wisconsin on Jan. 16.
// The consecutive games with 10 or fewer turnovers marks the first time since 2003-04 that Penn State had back-to-back games with 10 or fewer turnovers. Penn State turned the ball over just nine times in games vs. Minnesota (1/22/04) and at Ohio State (1/25/04).
// Penn State shot 46 percent from the field, the sixth time this season it shot 45% or better.
// Penn State scored 22 points off Nebraska's 16 turnovers.