Fantasia Goodwin is second on the team with 13.4 points and 8.3 rebounds per game.
Orange And Tigers Collide
12/16/2007 9:25:10 AM | Women's Basketball
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The women's basketball returns to the hardwood on Sunday when the team travels to Princeton for a 2 p.m. tip-off. The Orange is 7-1 and riding a six-game winning streak into its final road game of the calendar year. It is the best start since SU opened with the same record during the 1997-98 season. The Tigers bring a 3-8 record into the contest and are trying to stop a two-game losing skid.
Watch The Game
The women's basketball returns to the hardwood on Sunday when the team travels to Princeton for a 2 p.m. tip-off. The Orange is 7-1 and riding a six-game winning streak into its final road game of the calendar year. It is the best start since SU opened with the same record during the 1997-98 season. The Tigers bring a 3-8 record into the contest and are trying to stop a two-game losing skid.
The Orange faithful can listen to the voice of the women's basketball team, Brian Higgins, call the action on WTLA 1200/1440 AM or through suathletics.com via Orange All Access. Student radio, WJPZ 89.1 FM, will also be broadcasting the outing. The first ever meeting between the two schools can also be seen on goprincetontigers.com via Tiger Zone. Live stats can also be viewed through the website.
Off to one of the best starts in school history, junior Chandrea Jones is coming off back-to-back double-double performances, which earned her BIG EAST weekly honor roll accolades. The 5-foot-9-inch guard posted 15 points and 10 rebounds in the Orange's 72-53 win against rv/rv Penn State on Dec. 6. She followed that performance with 18 points and 14 boards in a 79-46 routing of Northeastern on Dec. 9. She only needed the first half to register her third double-double of the season by scoring 14 and grabbing 10 rebounds.
Jones, who is averaging a team-best 14.6 points and 9.3 rebounds, isn't the only Orange having success so far. Senior forward Fantasia Goodwin is posting 13.4 points and 8.3 rebounds off the bench. Goodwin, a Hastings, N.Y. native, is averaging 23.8 minutes per outing and has three double-doubles this year.
Sophomore forward Nicole Michael and freshman forward Erica Morrow are also averaging more than 10 points. Michael is registering 12.0 points, while Morrow is posting 11.4 per contest.
As a team, the Orange shot 50.0 percent or better in both halves against Northeastern. It was the first time SU accomplished the feat since it made 56.2 percent (11-23) of its shots in the first half and 50.0 percent (12-24) of its shots in the second half in its 77-70 win versus Loyola on Dec. 19, 2006, in the first round of the San Juan Shootout. Against Northeastern, the Orange made 58.1 percent (18-31) percent of its shots in the first half and 56.6 percent (13-23) of its attempts in the second stanza.
Trying to counter the Orange's offensive attack is Princeton's Meagan Cowher, who leads the team with 17.4 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. She has scored 10 or more points in the last 14 games. The Tigers are shooting 37.8 percent per clip, while its opponents are shooting 41.7 percent.
This season the Orange is shooting 41.9 percent from the floor, while holding its competition to only 34.2 percents. Head coach Quentin Hillsman's troops have held their last six opponents below 40.0 percent shooting with the high being 38.9 percent (21-54) by Louisiana Monroe in SU's 69-56 win on Dec. 2.
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