Women's Basketball (8-5, 4-3 GLVC) vs. UMSL Tritons (7-9, 2-5 GLVC)
Monday, January 20 | 5: 30 p.m. | St. Charles, Mo. (Hyland Arena)
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Lindenwood Notes:
- Lindenwood takes on GLVC travel partner UMSL in a home contest tonight at Hyland Arena. The Lions and Tritons previously met in the first game of the GLVC season on Dec. 3 with Lindenwood gaining a 78-70 overtime win. The Lions are 4-3 in GLVC play while UMSL sits at 2-5. In the GLVC Point Rating System, Lindenwood ranks sixth while UMSL is 10th. The top eight teams make the GLVC Conference Championship. 
- In their last game, the Lions defeated Bellarmine in a hard-fought contest at home. Kallie Bildner led the Lions with 24 points and 12 rebounds. Bildner also shot 10-11 from the free throw line. In the game, 48 fouls were called and three different players fouled out. As a team, the Lions were 21-31 from the free throw line.
- The Lindenwood senior duo of Kallie Bildner and Lindsey Medlen are rewriting the Lion record books. Bildner has already broken the career rebounding record and has joined the 1,000 point club at Lindenwood. She also is approaching the Lindenwood career scoring record as well as the 1,000 rebound plateau. Medlen has 943 career points and is on-pace to join Bildner in the 1,000 point club. Additionally, Medlen has 352 career assists, approaching the Lindenwood NCAA record 380 career assists set by Jenny Rocha from 2012-16.
- Bildner is second in the conference in scoring at 20.5 points per game and tops in rebounding at 10.5 rebounds per game. She is the only player in the GLVC to rank in the top five in both categories. 
- Devin Fuhring is shooting 26-69 from three this season (.377). She is on pace to make 56 three-pointers this season, which would be the third-best single-season total in Lindenwood history. Kassidy Gengenbacher made 58 threes in 14-15 and 69 threes in 15-16. 
- Lindsay Medlen is excelling in her senior campaign. The point guard leads the GLVC in assists per game (5.1, 22nd nationally) and is second in  assist-to-turnover ratio (2.44. 16th nationally). 
- The Lions are led by second-year head coach Katie Falco. She joined Lindenwood after spending the previous 10 seasons as an assistant coach at NCAA DI South Dakota State. In her first season at the helm, she led the Lions to a 21-8 overall record, setting the Lindenwood NCAA single-season win record and earning the program's first-ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. 

GLVC Standings:
Lindenwood is currently 4-3 in GLVC games and is sixth in the GLVC ranking system with a 3.50 average rating. 

The GLVC uses a point-based ranking system to seed the conference championship. At the end of the season, points are distributed as follows:
7      win vs. .750 win percentage or better on road
6.5      win vs. .750 at home
6      win vs. .500 on road
5       win vs. .500 at home
4.5    - win vs. .250 on road
4      win vs. 250 at home
3.5      win vs. sub-.250 on road
3     win vs. sub-.250 at home
2.5      loss vs. 750 team 
2      loss vs. .500 team
1     loss vs. .250 team
.5      loss sub-.250 team on road
0     loss sub-.250 team at home

UMSL Notes:
- The Tritons have one of the stronger defenses in the GLVC. They are fourth in total scoring defense at 64.3 points allowed per game. Lindenwood is the fourth-ranked offense at 74.7 points per game. 
- UMSL has three players posting double figures in scoring this season: Laura Szorenyi (11.6 ppg), Alex LaPorta (10.1) and Danielle Berry (10.1).
- LaPorta is UMSL's leading rebounder at 8.5 rebounds per game. She also leads the team with 56 assists this season.
- Berry shoots a team-leading .373 from three this season, while Breanna Diestelkamp is tops from the field at .485.

Series Notes:
- The Lions are 4-5 all-time against the Tritons, winning the most recent contest on Dec. 3, 78-70 in overtime.
- In the last game, Kallie Bildner and Devin Fuhring led the Lions with 20 points apiece while Bildner grabbed 15 rebounds.  The Lions thrived at the free throw line in overtime, scoring eight points at the stripe, led by Bildner, who was 5-6 in OT. Julia Ruzevich grabbed five offensive rebounds in overtime alone. 
- In three career games against the Tritons, Kallie Bildner has 52 points and 37 rebounds, both are the most among active players at Lindenwood.