Women's Basketball (11-6, 7-4 GLVC) vs. Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles (11-6, 7-4 GLVC)
Saturday, February 1 | 1 p.m. | St. Charles, Mo. (Hyland Arena)
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Lindenwood Notes:
- Lindenwood hosts USI in a pivotal GLVC matchup at Hyland Arena. The Lions and Screaming Eagles are both 11-6 overall with 7-4 marks in the GLVC. Lindenwood has the no. 3 scoring offense in the GLVC at 77.1 points per game while USI boasts the no. 6 defense at 66.1 points allowed per game.
- In their last game, the Lions scored 100 points against an NCAA opponent for the first time in program history, defeating McKendree 103-74.
Kallie Bildner led the Lions with 19 points and 17 rebounds. She also grabbed her 1,000th career rebound. Bildner was the first player in NCAA DII to surpass 1,000 rebounds this season.
- 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 and 1,000 rebound clubs at Lindenwood. She is approaching the Lindenwood career scoring record with 1,657 points (record is 1,808). Medlen has 987 career points and is on-pace to join Bildner in the 1,000 point club. Additionally, Medlen has 369 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 20.9 points per game and tops in rebounding at 11.3 rebounds per game. She is the only player in the GLVC to rank in the top five in both categories. She also leads the conference (fifth nationally) in field goal percentage at 62.8%
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Devin Fuhring is scoring 15.6 points per game (seventh in GLVC). Bildner and Fuhring are both in the top 10 in the GLVC in scoring, the only teammates to appear in the top 10.
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Kallie Bildner is among the statistical leaders among active players in all of DII. She is 11th in career scoring (1,657), first in rebounding (1,009) and sixth in field goal percentage (59.3).
- 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 7-4 in GLVC games and is fifth 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
Southern Indiana Notes:
- The Screaming Eagles have the 22nd fewest turnovers per game in NCAA DII this season at 249. Additionally, they are 23rd in turnover margin at 5.29.
- Ashley Johnson is the leading scorer for USI. She posts 13.9 points per game. Emma DeHart (11.2) and Hannah Haithcock (10.1) also score in double figures.
- Ashlynn Brown is the top rebounder at 5.6 boards per game.
Series Notes
- This is the first meeting between the two programs. The Lions and Screaming Eagles meet again in two weeks in Evansville, Ind.