Women's Basketball (14-8, 10-6 GLVC) vs. Rockhurst Hawks (10-14, 4-12 GLVC)
Thursday, Feb. 20 | 5:30 p.m. | St. Charles, Mo. (Hyland Arena)
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Lindenwood Notes
- Lindenwood returns to Hyland Arena for the first of four games to wrap up the 2019-20 regular season. The Lions host Rockhurst for the first time this season. Lindenwood is 10-6 in GLVC action this season and ranks sixth in the GLVC Point Rating System.
- Last time out, the Lions rallied to beat McKendree 90-85 in Lebanon, Ill. In the game, point guard
Lindsay Medlen tallied eight assists, breaking the Lindenwood single-season NCAA record with 117 assists. She led the Lions with 23 points while also posting three steals and eight rebounds.
Kallie Bildner exploded in the fourth quarter, scoring 11 of her 13 points and grabbed eight of her 11 rebounds in the final frame.
- The Lindenwood senior duo of
Kallie Bildner and Lindsey Medlen are rewriting the Lion record books. Bildner has already broken the Lindenwood rebounding record and is 38 points from matching the career scoring record. Medlen recently broke the Lindenwood career and NCAA era single-season assists records. Both players have surpassed 1,000 career points.
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Kallie Bildner is the only player to rank in the top five in points (21.4, second) and rebounds (11.9, first) and field goal percentage (.608, first) in the GLVC this season.
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Kallie Bildner is among the statistical leaders among active players in all of DII. She is eighth in career scoring (1,770), first in rebounding (1,076) and sixth in field goal percentage (59.1).
- This month,
Kallie Bildner and
Lindsay Medlen have been thriving. Bildner is averaging 22.8 points and 13.4 rebounds per game this month. Medlen is posting 16.4 points and 7.2 rebounds per game while adding 39 assists over five games in February.
- The Lions are led by second-year head coach
Katie Falco. She joined Lindenwood after spending 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.
Rockhurst Notes:
- Rockhurst enters the weekend 4-12 in GLVC games and sits in 14th place in the GLVC Point Rating System at 2.31 points per game.
- The Hawks are coming off of a 98-54 win over Southwest Baptist on Rockhurst's senior day. Against the Bearcats, Madeline Ronshausen led the Hawks in scoring at 26 points and rebounding at eight boards. Rockhurst pushed the tempo to 13 fast break points while SBU did not have any fast break points.
- Ronshausen is the leading scorer for Rockhurst, scoring 18.4 points per game and leads with 3.9 rebounds per game. She also shoots 41% from beyond the arc.
Series Notes
- First meeting between the two schools.