SU Hosts Bearcats In Dome Doubleheader

Syracuse vs. Cincinnati
Game Details	Saturday, Jan. 28 \| Syracuse, N.Y. \| 4 p.m. Carrier Dome Purchase Tickets
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Syracuse women's basketball team (13-8, 2-5 BIG EAST) hosts Cincinnati (9-11, 0-7 BIG EAST) at 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Carrier Dome. The game follows the third-ranked Orange men's basketball team's game vs. West Virginia at 1 p.m.
• Fans that attend the men's game receive free admission to the women's game.
• Saturday is also Girl Scout Day at the Dome, with area troops in attendance and participating with the SU Cheerleaders at halftime.

GAME COVERAGE
• Fans can watch the game online on Orange All-Access at SUathletics.com.
• The contest can be heard live on SU's flagship station ESPN 97.7 FM/1200 AM and on Orange All-Access at SUathletics.com with Brian Higgins '04 and Samantha Berdinka on the call. Fans can also listen to the game on Syracuse's student station, WJPZ 89.1 FM. Live statistics are also available on SUathletics.com.

FOLLOW THE ORANGE!
• You can stay up to date with all of the latest news, scores, stats, photos, videos and more by following the Orange on social media! The Syracuse women's basketball team is now on Twitter! Follow the Orange at Twitter.com/SyracuseWBB and follow all of SU's team's at Twitter.com/suorangeempire. SU is on Facebook at Facebook.com/SyracuseOrange.

SERIES HISTORY
• This will be the ninth meeting all-time between Syracuse and Cincinnati with the series tied at four wins apiece. SU is 1-2 at home.
• Quentin Hillsman is 3-2 against the Bearcats.
• The Orange won last season's meeting, a 55-53 comeback victory at Fifth Third Arena on Feb. 22. SU trailed by as many as 19 in the first half. Kayla Alexander led the Orange with 18 points, while Carmen Tyson-Thomas and Iasia Hemingway added 14 and 10 points, respectively. Shareese Ulis led UC with 20 points.
• Two seasons ago, on Feb. 13, 2010, the last time the teams met at the Carrier Dome, the Bearcats defeated the Orange, 66-62, in overtime. Nicole Michael led SU with 19 points and 11 rebounds, while Ulis led Cincinnati with 25 points, including the 3-pointer at the buzzer that sent the game into overtime.
• The teams first met in the 1982-83 season, a 75-70 Bearcats win in a tournament at Michigan, and did not meet again until the 2001-02 season.

SCOUTING CINCINNATI
• The Bearcats are 9-11 overall and 0-7 in BIG EAST play. After starting the season 9-5, Cincinnati has dropped its last six contests.
• The Bearcats have faced a front-loaded conference slate with losses coming to Louisville (59-64), USF (55-58), at Rutgers (47-58), Notre Dame (50-76), at UConn (37-80) and vs. St. John's (34-51). Most recently, UC fell at Villanova on Tuesday, 63-54.
• UC's last win was on Dec. 29 vs. High Point, 62-40.
• Cincinnati is led by Dayees Hollins. She leads the team in scoring (14.4 ppg) and assists (65), while grabbing 4.2 rebounds per game.
• Guard Bjonee Reaves is an outside-shooting threat, averaging 12.6 points per game while hitting 48 3s.
• Jamelle Elliott is in her third year as head coach. The 1996 Connecticut alumnus was 21-38 combined in her first two seasons. She led the Bearcats to a 9-20 record last season and 2-14 mark in conference play.

LAST TIME OUT
• Syracuse, playing in front of a record home crowd of 4,357, trailed No. 3 Connecticut by seven at halftime before the Huskies opened the second half on a 35-12 run to down the Orange, 95-54 on Wednesday night at the Carrier Dome. Iasia Hemingway led SU with 15 points. Tiffany Hayes led three UConn players in double-figures with a career-high 35 points.
• With five ties and two lead changes in the first half, UConn led 40-33 at halftime. SU matched the Huskies on nearly every statistical category in the opening 20 minutes, and shot 11-of-29 from the floor and holding a slight 21-20 edge in rebounds.
• SU led by as many as seven in the first half before the Huskies offense came alive with a 9-0 run, including seven from Hayes.

DOME SWEET DOME
• Syracuse has a record of 61-28 (.685) in the Carrier Dome since 2006-07. The Orange was nearly unbeatable on its home court last season, posting a 20-2 record in the Dome.
• This season, SU is 7-3 in the Dome.

ALEXANDER HONORED BY CONFERENCE
• Kayla Alexander was named to the BIG EAST Honor Roll on Monday for her performance in the Orange's road win against Seton Hall, 70-66, on Sunday.
• It is the third BIG EAST weekly honor of the season for the junior center from Milton, Ontario. She received the same award on Nov. 21 and Nov. 28.
• Alexander led all scorers with 23 points on 10-of-15 shooting from the field and 3-of-4 shooting at the free throw line. She grabbed eight rebounds, seven of which came at the offensive end, leading the Orange's 30-24 advantage in points in the paint and 46-38 edge on the boards.
• Iasia Hemingway recently received the honor two weeks in a row, on Jan. 2 and Jan. 9.

DOMINATING THE GLASS
• Dominant rebounding has become the norm for the Orange in recent years. Syracuse leads the NCAA in rebounding, averaging 49.1 per game and ranks seventh in margin at +11.3 per game.
• In the BIG EAST, SU leads the conference in rebounds per game (48.4), offensive rebounds (21.7) and is second in rebounding margin (+11.3).
• SU has four of the top 20 rebounders in the BIG EAST (8. Carmen Tyson-Thomas, 7.7; 10. Kayla Alexander, 7.4; 13. Iasia Hemingway, 6.8; and 18. Shakeya Leary, 6.5).
• Syracuse led the NCAA in rebounding margin last season at +13.4 per game. SU outrebounded 31 of its 35 opponents.

STRONG AT THE STRIPE
• An aggressive, attacking style of offense results in the Orange ranking second in the NCAA in free throws made (377) and attempted (501).
• Syracuse is second in the BIG EAST in free throw shooting percentage at .754.
• Carmen Tyson-Thomas has the best percentage at the charity stripe in the conference (.902).
• On Jan. 7 at Pitt, The Orange went 34-of-38 (.895) at the line, including Iasia Hemingway setting a school record with 15 free throws in 16 attempts.

ALEXANDER CONTROLS THE POST
• Junior center Kayla Alexander is the Orange's second-leading scorer (15.4 ppg.) and rebounder (7.4 rpg.) this season. She ranks eighth in the BIG EAST in scoring and 10th in rebounding, while leading the conference in blocked shots (55 total, 2.6 per game).
• Alexander has scored 1,227 points in 92 career games. The junior ranks 10th all-time at SU, 27 points behind ninth-place Paula Moore (1997-01) at 1,254.
• Alexander scored a career-high 33 points against Binghamton on Nov. 26, giving her 1,008 points in her career. She becomes the 21st player in program history to score 1,000 points in her career and the first since Erica Morrow accomplished the feat in 2009-10.
• Alexander is fourth on Syracuse's career blocked shot list with 216, just one behind Chris Palombi (1981-84) for third all-time at SU.
• Alexander is fourth on SU's career free throws made list at 345. Next up is Julie McBride (2001-04) with 348.

HEMINGWAY SPARKS ORANGE
• Senior Iasia Hemingway has reached double figures in scoring in 17 of 21 games this season and reached the 30-point mark three times. She leads the team in scoring (16.0 ppg), ranking fifth in the BIG EAST, and averages 6.8 rebounds.
• She scored a career-high 33 points, including a school-record 15 free throws in 16 attempts, in a win at Pitt (1/7).
• She set a then-career-high with 31 points to go along with 13 rebounds for her fourth double-double of the season vs. Colgate on Dec. 31.
• Hemingway played the first two years of her career at Georgia Tech before transferring to SU. She has scored 1,407 points in her career, 782 of them wearing Orange.

TYSON-THOMAS MAKES IMPACT
• Junior Carmen Tyson-Thomas ranks third on the team in scoring (11.3 ppg.) and leads the club in rebounding (7.7 rpg) this season.
• She had a streak of three-straight double-doubles (12/29, 12/31, 1/3) and had scored in double figures in five-straight. She has five double-doubles on the season and 14 in her career.
• The versatile swing-player has set career-highs in scoring in twice this season. Tyson-Thomas scored a career-high 21 points in SU's win against Lafayette. She improved on that performance in Syracuse's win against Buffalo, scoring a team-high 23 points. Since then she has posted 22 points against Ohio (12/20).
• She leads the BIG EAST in free throw shooting percentage at .902 (46-51), ranks fourth in offensive rebounds per game (3.5), and ninth in total rebounds per game (7.7).

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