UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State women's basketball team hosts its 13th-annual Play4Kay game benefiting Pink Zone Sunday afternoon when the Lady Lions welcome Michigan to the Bryce Jordan Center for a 2 p.m. tipoff.
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- 13th-annual Play4Kay game benefiting Pink Zone
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OPENING TIPS
- Penn State returns home to host a surging Michigan team Sunday afternoon in the 13th-annual Play4Kay game benefiting Pink Zone.
- Senior Teniya Page recently became the first-ever Lady Lion to eclipse the 2,000 career points, 400 career rebounds and 400 career assists milestones.
- Four Lady Lions are averaging 9.5 or more points, led by Teniya Page's 19.9 ppg. Page's 19.9 ppg ranks second amongst all Big Ten players, and 23rd in Division I.
IF PENN STATE BEATS MICHIGAN
- The Lady Lions would improve to 8-5 all-time in the Play4Kay game benefiting Pink Zone.
- Penn State would snap Michigan's three-game win streak.
- The Lady Lions would beat the Wolverines for the first time since 2017's Play4Kay game benefiting Pink Zone when Penn State defeated the Wolverines in a 76-75 thriller at the Bryce Jordan Center.
SCOUTING MICHIGAN
- Michigan enters Sunday's contest with a 15-9 overall record and 6-6 mark in Big Ten play.
- The Wolverines are riding a three-game winning streak after capturing victories over Iowa (90-81), Wisconsin (76-70) and Nebraska (67-61).
- Michigan is 10-1 at home, but just 3-7 in road games thus far this season. The Wolverines are 1-5 in conference away games, with that lone win coming at Wisconsin (76-70) on Feb. 3.
- Three Wolverines are averaging double-digit points, led by Naz Hillmon's 13.0 points per game.
AGAINST THE WOLVERINES
- Penn State holds a 36-15 edge in the all-time series against Michigan, including a 17-3 advantage in home games against the Wolverines.
- Michigan has won five of the last six matchups, however, including a postseason victory in the most recent meeting between the two teams in the Big Ten Tournament last season.
- The Wolverines used a strong defensive effort to hand Penn State a 77-48 loss on March 1.
- Teniya Page paced Penn State with 12 points, while Amari Carter followed with eight.
- The Lady Lions won the last matchup between the two teams at the Bryce Jordan Center, also the Play4Kay game benefiting Pink Zone, on Feb. 26, 2017 by a score of 76-75.
PLAY4KAY BENEFITING PINK ZONE
- Pink Zone and Penn State Lady Lion Basketball are a unified force in the fight against breast cancer on the court, across campus and within communities. Pink Zone promotes cancer awareness and empowers survivors through year-long efforts to raise funds critical in supporting vital breast cancer organizations, charities and facilities that focus on breast cancer education, research, diagnosis, prevention and treatment.
- The Lady Lions own a 7-5 record in the Play4Kay game benefiting Pink Zone, including a five-game winning streak from 2010-14.
- Pink Zone at Penn State has raised more than $2.1 million in funds over its 12 years, including a record $310,000 in 2014.
- The event began in 2007 with $20,490 raised and 31 cancer survivors in attendance, and has grown into an event that has raised over $200,000 in six of the last seven years and welcomed upwards of 500 cancer survivors annually.
- Pink Zone's six beneficiaries include: Mount Nittany Health Foundation, Penn State Cancer Institute, Kay Yow Foundation, PA Breast Cancer Coalition, JC Blair Memorial Hospital and Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital.
AN EVENT LIKE NO OTHER
- Penn State was the first team in the NCAA to don pink uniforms, debuting the threads on Feb. 4, 2007 against Wisconsin at the Bryce Jordan Center.
- The Lady Lion program has been honored as the Play4Kay Division I initiative winner twice in program history, winning the award in 2013 and 2014.
A LEAGUE OF HER OWN
- Teniya Page is the first player in Lady Lion history to eclipse 2,000 career points, 400 career assists and 400 career rebounds.
- She reached the milestone on Feb. 6 at Ohio State when she dished her fifth assist of the game and 400th of her career.
- Page was just the second currently active Division I player who has accomplished all three feats. Central Michigan's Presley Hudson was the first currently active DI player to join the 2,000/400/400 club.
UP NEXT
- The Lady Lions hit the road for their next two games, and four of their next five, beginning with a Thursday night contest at Northwestern. Tipoff is slated for 8 p.m. ET.