Jan. 29, 2008
Washington, D.C. - The Georgetown University women's basketball team (11-8, 1-5 BE) travels to bitter cold Milwaukee to take on Marquette (11-8, 3-3 BE) on Wednesday night, January 30. The game tips at 8 p.m. eastern and will be televised locally in Wisconsin on Time Warner Sports with Kareeda Chones-Aguam and Steve True calling the action. Live stats are available at ww.guhoyas.com. It was 50 degrees in the nation's capital when the team flew out of Ronald Reagan National Airport The Hoyas are coming off a sluggish 67-32 loss at No. 12 West Virginia on Saturday. Georgetown scored just 15 points in the second half and shot a season-low vs. BIG EAST opponents, 30 percent from the floor. Prior to BIG EAST play, Georgetown started the season 10-3 overall for the first time under fourth year head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy. Through the season's first 13 games, the Blue and Gray accumulated its best statistics - a 45.7 percent field goal percentage, 16.0 assists per game, scoring offense (67.9) and scoring defense (52.9) - under Coach Flournoy. Two of GU's first three losses came by a combined three points (HU & ECU). Hoyas in the Series vs. Marquette ... Marquette has won both of the previous meeting with the Hoyas. MU won 67-60 two years ago in Milwaukee and 67-52 in Washington, D.C. last season. Georgetown seniors Kristin Heidloff and Kieraah Marlow have played well in the two games vs. the Golden Eagles. Heidloff, from nearby Chicago, is averaging 11.5 points, including five three pointers and 6.0 assists while Marlow is averaging a double-double with 18.5 points and 11.5 rebounds in the two games. Marlow had 20 points and 14 boards two years ago here in the Al McGuire Center.
Senior center Aminata Diop scored 14 points vs. Marquette last season, her biggest scoring output against a league foe. Fast Breaks ... Georgetown started 6-0 at home for the first time since the 1996-97 campaign. -- Georgetown ranks sixth in the BIG EAST allowing 57.8 points per game. The Hoyas have held eight opponents to under 53 points. In BIG EAST play however, Georgetown is allowing 68.3 points per game, ranking 10th in the league. -- Georgetown is10-0 when they hold the lead with five minutes to go. -- GU has had a higher field goal percentage than its opponent in 13 of the 18 games this season. Georgetown has also shot 50 percent or better in a half on 12 different occasions and finished a game shooting over 50 percent three times. -- Sophomore Jaleesa Butler earned her first career start vs. VCU to give the front line a little more length that day and Butler has stayed in the starting lineup ever since. Starting in the last 12 games, Butler is averaging 10.7 points on 46 percent shooting (49-106), 6.2 rebounds and 1.3 blocks. Butler was held scoreless for the first time all season at WVU on Saturday. -- Senior co-captain Kristin Heidloff ranks sixth on the school's all-time list with 138 career three-pointers. She needs one more trey to tie Kate Carlin (2003-07) for fifth place. Heidloff had 14 points five assists vs. No. 17 Notre Dame and became one of just eight Hoyas in school history to surpass the 300-assist mark (302). -- Senior co-captain and leading scorer Kieraah Marlow connected on her 500th career field goal vs. Brown and reached the 1,500-point mark vs. Seton Hall. She's made 45.8 percent of the field goals over her career (530-1158). She became the seventh member of the Hoya program to knock down at least 500 FG's. -- Kieraah Marlow's 34 points vs. Notre Dame is the single-game high for a BIG EAST player in league action this season. -- The Hoyas were given some terrific news during the second week of November. Georgetown's recruiting class was ranked sixth in the nation by Mike Flynn's Blue Star Report and 18th nationally by HoopGurlz.com. It marks Coach Flournoy's first top 10 recruiting class. Shanice Not Suffering from Sophomore Jinx ... Sophomore guard Shanice Fuller started at point guard in every game last season as a freshman. Fuller finished her rookie campaign averaging 5.0 points to go along with 83 assists and 95 turnovers. As a sophomore this season, Fuller ranks 10th in the BIG EAST with 3.8 assists per game and she has compiled 48 assists vs. just 26 turnovers in the last 11 games. The Chesapeake, Va. native compiled 73 assists already this season (83 last year) despite coming off the bench in all but five games. Fuller has been in the starting lineup in each of the last four games, averaging 5.5 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists. She knocked down 8-11 free throws in the span (73%). Heidloff Back at It ... Junior guard Kristin Heidloff ranks third on the school's all-time list with a career three-point field goal percentage of .366 (138-377). Heidloff would rank fourth in the BIG EAST shooting 44 percent (16-36) from long range so far this season but she hasn't made enough treys to qualify. Her 138 career three-pointers ranks sixth all-time in Georgetown annals. Heidloff missed the Loyola Marymount & East Tennesse State games after taking an elbow to the face during practice on December 18. She wore a protective mask in three straight games but as since ditched the face mask. The LMU and ETSU contests were the first two games of Heidloff's career that she missed. Heidloff matched a season-high with 14 points to go along with five assists vs. 0 turnovers vs. Notre Dame. Kirkland Still Hustling... Sophomore Kenya Kirkland played in 21 games a season ago and was in the starting lineup in the season's final two games. Kirkland, who earned the team's Hustle Award following her freshman year, has started in 14 of the team's 19 games. The Brooklyn, N.Y. native grabbed a career-high six rebounds at Gardner-Webb. Kirkland, who will most often get the nod to guard the opponent's best scorer, tallied career-highs with nine points, four field goals and four steals at Towson. She matched her career-high with four field goals vs. LMU. Despite playing just four minutes vs. Seton Hall, Kirkland entered the game prior to the Pirates last possession with the Hoyas leading, 57-56. Kirkland stopped SHU Ela Mukosiej's dribble drive to the basket causing a turnover enabling GU to pull out the win. Diop Continuting Steady Play in the Post ... Senior 6-5 center Aminata Diop, a transfer from Southeastern Illinois J.C., averaged 6.1points and 5.3 rebounds a year ago in her first season in the Blue and Gray. The native of Senegal, on the western coast of Africa, hit 45 percent of her field goals and notched two double-doubles last season. Diop, who speaks four languages, English, French, Dutch and Wolof (native to Senegal) had her third career double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds vs. Navy this season. In her 15 starts, Diop is averaging 7.8 points on 52 percent shooting (48-95) and 3.7 rebounds. Diop did miss the ECU, Furman and Brown games with a sprained right knee. McNutt Is On a Tear ... Freshman Monica McNutt came off the bench and averaged 13.0 points on 55 percent shooting 2.5 blocks and 1.5 steals in the Hokie Hardwood Classic at Virginia Tech. McNutt set new career-highs with 15 points and three three-pointers in the loss vs. East Carolina before netting 11 points to go along with three treys, three steals and three blocks in 20 minutes in the win over Furman. McNutt, who was named Washington Post Honorable Mention All-Met during her days at the Academy of the Holy Cross, scored 26 points over that weekend after scoring 23 points through the team's first 10 games. McNutt is coming off the bench and averaging 8.3 points on 47 percent shooting, including 12-32 from three point land in the last nine games to go along with 12 steals and 10 blocks in the span. Scouting Marquette ... Marquette has a record of 11-8, 3-3 in the BIG EAST. The Golden Eagles have league wins over Providence (72-43), No. 23 DePaul (65-56) and at USF (79-66). MU's league losses came to No. 5 Rutgers (61-65), at No. 12 West Virginia (63-68) and at Louisville (69-79). Marquette, 8-2 at home this season, is led by junior guard Krystal Ellis is is averaging 20. 4 points per game. Ellis ranks fifth in the league with 40 made three-pointers. Senior forward Svetlana Kovalenko is averaging 8.6 points and 8.3 rebounds per game. |
