WBB Gameday Central 12-14-19

Women's Basketball CU Athletics

Lady Tigers return home for Saturday rematch with Fisk after Monday’s win

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – With two games remaining in their 2019 portion of the 2019-20 season, the Campbellsville University women's basketball team will play a pair of home games to finish off the calendar year starting with the second-straight game with Fisk University this Saturday at 2 p.m. ET.
 
The game will air on both WLCU TV and Radio with the television broadcast going out to Comcast Channel 10 along with it being streamed online at www.campbellsvilletigers.com/watch and the radio broadcast going out on 88.7 The Tiger. Matt Payton, the voice of Lady Tiger basketball, will be on the call on Saturday courtside from the Powell Athletic Center.
 
The Lady Tigers earned a 100-48 win over Fisk in Nashville, Tenn. this past Monday to move to 13-0 so far through the season. CU used a career-high 15 points from redshirt junior guard Cristin Hall to pull away in the second half.
 
Hall scored 10-straight points for the Lady Tigers in the third quarter after a layup, two-straight three-pointers, and another layup before finishing the quarter with 12 of her 15 points.
 
SERIES FACTS
  • The Lady Tigers and Bulldogs have now met five times and all meetings came as home and home meetings, much like the pair of meetings this season.
  • Campbellsville has won all five of the matchups by large, double digit margins of victory in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons with three of the five meetings coming in the month of January.
  • In the 2015-16 meetings, Emily Fox was the only player to score in double figures in each game with 17 points in the Jan. 7, 2016 meeting that followed a 16-point effort on the Dec. 11, 2015 game as CU earned 78-42 and 77-54 wins respectively.
  • The largest margin of victory came in the Jan. 29, 2015 matchup as the Lady Tigers earned an 87-38 victory in Nashville behind 19 points from Lindey Young and 15, 12, and 12 off the bench from Nathalie Felipe, Lauren Turner, and Fox.
  • The first ever meeting came earlier in that month of January when Campbellsville dropped a series-high point total of 96 on Jan. 12 against the Bulldogs as Chelsea Craig and Macie Spence led the way with 13 points as Lexxus Graham added 10.
 
#WEARENUMBERONE
  • For the first time since 2015-16, CU women's basketball is the top team in the NAIA Coaches' Poll after receiving 219 voting points and eight of the nine first place votes this past Wednesday.
  • In 2015-16, the Lady Tigers were the preseason No. 1 team and also earned the No. 1 ranking twice in January after initially dropping down the rankings during the early part of the season.
  • Campbellsville's 11-0 start is the best start to a season for the Lady Tigers since 2014-15 when they started 10-0 then suffered their first loss of the season to Lindsey Wilson in a game played on the first week of December.
  • That 2014-15 season led to the Lady Tigers reaching the National Championship game and finishing with a 33-4 record, which led to the following season's preseason No. 1 ranking in the NAIA Coaches' Poll.
 
SCOUTING FISK
  • The Bulldogs are an NAIA Division II Independent with a current record of 2-12 with their two wins coming against Cumberland University and Morris (S.C.) in back-to-back games in November.
  • Fisk struggles on the offensive end, only averaging 54.6 points per game and a -24.3 scoring margin through their 14 games this season.
  • The Bulldogs are a strong rebounding team, averaging 41.9 rebounds per game but get outrebounded by 7.7 boards per game.
  • Ileah Chambly leads Fisk in scoring at 10.3 points per game and in rebounding with a strong 11.1 rebounds per game average.
 
TIGER CLAWZ
  • Campbellsville is the No. 1 assisting team in NAIA Division I with a team total of 259 so far behind starting point guard Caitlin Hall's 78 assists, good for No. 3 individually in that category.
  • Forcing turnovers has been a big part of the CU game plan through the early portion of the schedule as they force their opponents into 27.6 turnovers per game and rank third in NAIA DI in total steals at 188 this season.
  • Through 13 games, the Lady Tigers have hit three statistical marks as a team 10 times or more throughout the early portions of the season. They have held opponents to under 50 percent and recorded 16 or more assists 10 times and they have held a halftime lead 12 out of the 13 games this season.
  • Lexy Lake has shown to pick up her outside shooting game this season as she leads the NAIA in three-pointers made at 46 so far this season. That is only five away from tying her season total from last year as she's also boosted her playing time from 13.4 to 22.2 minutes per game.
 
INDIVIDUAL MILESTONES WATCH
  • Upper classmen in the CU starting lineup have been and will be climbing the all-time leader boards in the history of Lady Tiger basketball.
  • Starting with Madison Faulkner joining the 1,000-point club, she now sits at 32nd on the all-time scoring list and will likely have a teammate join her on that list as Savannah Gregory currently sits at 939 career points.
  • Gregory is also in the top-five on the career steals list as she is currently at 266, now tied with Beth Grant for fifth all-time.
  • Senior guard Caitlin Hall currently has 499 career assists, good for sixth place and just one away from becoming the sixth player to reach 500 assists in program history.
 
1,000-WIN PLATEAU
  • In the 45th season of Lady Tiger basketball history, Campbellsville reached a milestone that had only been accomplished twice before in the history of NAIA women's basketball, win 1,000 games as a program.
  • The monumental win came in CU's 91-59 win over Martin Methodist College last Saturday in Pulaski, Tenn. as part of the MSC/SSAC Crossover Challenge.
  • Campbellsville joins Wayland Baptist and Union University (Tenn.) as the only other programs to reach the feat as Union is no longer part of the NAIA after moving to the NCAA Division II level.
 
UP NEXT FOR CU
  • Campbellsville will finish the 2019 calendar year with their final home game of non-conference play with a meeting with Martin Methodist College on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 4 p.m. ET.
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Players Mentioned

Lexxus Graham

#22 Lexxus Graham

G
5' 5"
Senior
Winchester, Ky.
Lauren Turner

#4 Lauren Turner

G
5' 7"
Senior
Gamaliel, Ky.
Madison Faulkner

#40 Madison Faulkner

F
5' 8"
Senior
Horse Cave, Ky.
Savannah Gregory

#13 Savannah Gregory

G
5' 8"
Redshirt Junior
Scottsville, Ky.
Caitlin Hall

#20 Caitlin Hall

G
5' 5"
Senior
Stanford, Ky.
Cristin Hall

#21 Cristin Hall

G
5' 5"
Redshirt Junior
Stanford, Ky.
Lexy  Lake

#12 Lexy Lake

G
5' 9"
Sophomore
Harrodsburg, Ky.

Players Mentioned

Lexxus Graham

#22 Lexxus Graham

5' 5"
Senior
Winchester, Ky.
G
Lauren Turner

#4 Lauren Turner

5' 7"
Senior
Gamaliel, Ky.
G
Madison Faulkner

#40 Madison Faulkner

5' 8"
Senior
Horse Cave, Ky.
F
Savannah Gregory

#13 Savannah Gregory

5' 8"
Redshirt Junior
Scottsville, Ky.
G
Caitlin Hall

#20 Caitlin Hall

5' 5"
Senior
Stanford, Ky.
G
Cristin Hall

#21 Cristin Hall

5' 5"
Redshirt Junior
Stanford, Ky.
G
Lexy  Lake

#12 Lexy Lake

5' 9"
Sophomore
Harrodsburg, Ky.
G