Women's Basketball (11-7, 7-5 GLVC) at Truman State (15-4, 11-1 GLVC)
Thursday, Feb. 6 | 5:30 p.m. | Kirksville, Mo.
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Lindenwood Notes:
- Lindenwood travels to Truman State for the first contest of a four-game road trip. Truman enters the contest in third place (4.21) in the GLVC Point Rating System and the Lions are sixth (3.38).
- Against McKendree last week, 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 1,682 points (record is 1,808). Bildner and
Lindsay Medlen are the only teammates with 1,000 career points in the GLVC. Additionally, Medlen has 376 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 21.2 points per game and tops in rebounding at 11.4 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 (sixth nationally) in field goal percentage at 62.7%
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Devin Fuhring is scoring 15.9 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 (1,682), first in rebounding (1,021) and sixth in field goal percentage (59.3).
- 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.
Truman State Notes:
- The Bulldogs are 15-4 overall and hold an 11-1 mark in GLVC games. In the most recent GLVC Points Ranking System, Truman State is third with 4.21 points.
- Sloane Totta is the top scorer for TSU with 13.5 points per game. She also shoots 43.7% from the field and 35.8% from deep. Totta leads the GLVC with 5.3 assists per game.
- Maddie Re is the top rebounder, grabbing 9.6 rebounds per game, fourth in the GLVC.
- Hannah Belanger is a sniper for the Bulldogs, shooting 48.0% from three, fourth in NCAA DII.
Series Notes:
- The Lions and Bulldogs have played three times since Lindenwood joined the NCAA with Truman State holding a 2-1 edge. However, Lindenwood won the last meeting on Nov. 24, 2018, 94-83 in Springfield, Mo.