Spartans Take Their High-Flying Offense To The Big Time
11/24/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Nov. 24, 2008
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The USC Upstate women's basketball team, riding its first Division I winning streak, heads to the furthest point North in program history on Tuesday when IUPUI welcomes it to Indianapolis for a 5 p.m. matchup at the home of the Indiana Pacers, Conseco Fieldhouse.
The Spartans (3-0) have won their first three games in convincing fashion and currently have four of the top 30 scorers in the A-Sun, with sophomore Chelsea McMillan (15.0 ppg), junior Courtney Hawkins (13.7), freshman Kendra Wallace (11.7) and freshman Lesley Daniel (8.7) all amongst the league leaders. The team has also found new defensive outlets, with Upstate currently leading the A-Sun with an average of 6.33 rejections per game, thanks to the post duo of McMillan and sophomore Sam Frost.
The Jaguars (3-1) have gotten out to just as hot a start with early-season wins over Northern Illinois, IU-Southeast and Cornell. Jernisha Cann has led the Jags, averaging 17.3 points and 11.0 rebounds per game.
This is Upstate's first-ever game in an NBA arena.
Notes
• Upstate is 4-3 all-time on Nov. 25, last defeating Limestone, 76-56, in 2006.
• Junior Courtney Hawkins became the 19th player in school history to reach 700 career points with her 11 against Charleston Southern.
• Senior Ebony Johnson needs 10 rebounds to become the 15th player in school history with 400 career rebounds.
• Upstate 10 blocks against Charleston Southern were the most in the DI era. The Spartans got three blocks each from sophomores Chelsea McMillan and Sam Frost.
• The Spartans has won three striaght games for the first time since wins over North Georgia, Columbus State and Francis Marion from Jan. 17 to Jan. 24, 2007.
• Upstate has shot 50 percent from 3-point land in each of its last two games.
• Senior Courtney Bradley is five assists shy of the school's NCAA-era assists record of 335 set by Angelina Gordon from 1994-97.
• The previous furthest point North in program history was a trip to Kentucky in 2007.
