Feb. 29, 2008

Game Notes

ATHENS, Ohio - The Ohio women's basketball team will begin a three-game road swing Saturday afternoon against Kent State at 2 p.m. The game is the first of three consecutive road contests for the Bobcats who are slated to face Northern Illinois on Monday, March 3 and Miami on March 5.

Date: March 1
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Kent, Ohio
Radio: WOUB - Thomas Hodson (play-by-play), Brian Boesch (color)
Internet: Livestats are available at kentstatesports.com
Records: Ohio (15-11, 8-5 MAC) Kent State (8-18, 5-9 MAC)
Rankings: Neither Ohio nor Kent State is nationally ranked
Series: Kent State leads the series 41-18
Coaches: Ohio - Sylvia Crawley is 33-23 in her second year at Ohio. Bob Lindsay is 352-201 in his 19th year at Kent State
Web Sites: Ohio - OhioBobcats.com Kent State - kentstatesports.com

A Win Saturday Would ...
- make the Bobcats 16-11 overall
- make the Bobcats 9-5 in MAC play
- make Ohio 411-482 all-time
- make Crawley's record 34-23
- make Ohio 19-41 vs. Kent State

Notables
- Ohio has a 12-12 overall road record under Head Coach Sylvia Crawley, including a 8-5 away record in MAC games only. This season the `Cats are 4-1 on the road, only losing to Bowling Green on Jan. 12.
- Kent State defeated Ohio in overtime, 74-68, in the conference opener for both teams on Jan. 9 at The Convo.
- The Bobcats have not won in Kent since 1991.
- Freshman Kamille Buckner reached Ohio's single-season blocks list last game. Buckner has made 24 blocks in her rookie campaign, which puts her four blocks away from reaching Ohio's all-time list.
- With 114 three-point field goals made in her career, senior Simone Redd is third all-time in Bobcat history in the category. She started the season ranked seventh with 84. Seniors Quintana Ward and Lauren Kohn have made 101 career treys each, tying them for fifth all-time.

Follow the Leader
Senior Lauren Kohn has lived up to her title as senior captain. The 5-11 guard has led the Bobcats in scoring all season long and currently averages a team-best 16 ppg.
Other accolades for Kohn this season include:
- First Bobcat to garner CoSIDA Academic All-America honors since 1986.
- Named to the ESPN The Magazine District 4 Academic First Team.
- Seven 20+ point games (27 against Cleveland State and 25 against Presbyterian College, 24 vs. Toledo, 22 vs. Akron, CMU, Ball State, 21 vs. Western Michigan).
- 21 double-digit scoring games.
- Four consecutive games with 20 or more points scored.
- Two double-doubles (vs. Hampton and Kent State).
- Shot 70% from the floor (7-of-10) at Western Michigan.
- Has been perfect at the charity stripe in 11 games this season and is ranked 18th in the country with an 87.4 FT shooting percentage.
- Named to the Preseason All-MAC Team.

Season Notes
- With 113 three-point field goals made in her career, Simone Redd is third all-time in Bobcat history for career three pointers made. She started the season ranked seventh all-time with 84. Seniors Quintana Ward and Lauren Kohn are tied for fifth (100).
- Quintana Ward is Ohio's second all-time leader with 437 career assists. She also holds two spots on Ohio's all-time single-season assists list with 134 in 2006-07 and 120 in 2005-06. Ward recently broke into Ohio's all-time career steals list with 141, which is tenth best in program history.
- Freshman Kamille Buckner is only five blocks away from joining Ohio's elite shot blockers. Buckner currently has 23 career blocks, making her one block shy of Ohio's single-season blocks list.
- Senior Lauren Kohn and Simone Redd both reached the 1,000-point plateau this season. Kohn has accumulated 1,321 points, including 899 scored while at Ohio. Redd has 1,068 career points.
- Chandra Myers scored a career-high 20 points in Ohio's 86-68 win at Akron on Feb. 20. Her 52.9 field goal percentage is the best on the team. She leads the team in rebounding with 6.4 boards a game, and has led the team in rebounding in 14 games.
- Jennifer Bushby had missed only one free throw this season and is 92.3 percent from the stripe (12-of-13). Bushby has been perfect at the line in five games this season. She has a career FT percentage of 81.4.

Last Time vs. Kent State (Jan. 9, 2008)
Ohio's MAC opener proved to be bittersweet as the Bobcats lost in thrilling fashion, 74-68, in overtime to Kent State at The Convo. Senior Simone Redd broke the 1,000-point barrier becoming only the 12th Ohio women's basketball player to ever reach the milestone.

Down by as much as six points in the second half, the Bobcats battled back with stingy defense and timely shooting from forward Catherine Cain and a big 3-pointer from Quintana Ward that put Ohio up by two points with just more than two minutes remaining. Kent State tied the game with a jumper, but Cain answered with a pair of free throws to put the Bobcats back up by two points with 39 second left in the game. The Golden Flashes tied the game once again with a short jumper by Rachel Bennett with 25 seconds left to send each team's first MAC game of the season into overtime. Kent State jumped out to an early lead in the overtime period, but the Bobcats were able to tie the game once again, the seventh tie of the contest, with just two minutes remaining to play. However, the tie was short-lived as the Golden Flashes went on an eight-point run to close out the game before Redd found Jennifer Bushby for a two-point basket as time expired.

Ohio's Lauren Kohn led all Bobcats with 15 points and 11 rebounds and was just two assists shy of her first career triple-double. Redd added 12 points, eight rebounds and five assists. She scored the 1,000th point of her career with a long jumper from the wing late in the first half. The game was momentarily stopped and she was presented with a ceremonial basketball in honor of her achievement. Kent State was led offensively by the trio of Asheley Harkins, Ellie Shields and Anna Kowalska. Kowalska led all scorers with a game-high 18 points and added 11 rebounds, a team-high. Harkins had 17 points and Shields tacked on 16 points.