Army West Point Athletics
Women's Hoops Welcomes Lehigh on Saturday
February 16, 2018 | Women's Basketball
WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army West Point women's basketball team returns to Christl Arena on Saturday to play host to Lehigh in a Patriot League showdown slated to start at 1 p.m.
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HOW TO FOLLOW
AUDIO • Black Knights Radio
VIDEO • Patriot League Network
LIVE STATS • GoArmyWestPoint.com
GAME NOTES • Army | Lehigh
TICKETS • GoArmyWestPoint.comÂ
TWITTER • @ArmyWP_WBB
GAMEDAY STORYLINES
• Saturday's outing is the 65th all-time meeting between Army and Lehigh.
• Senior Janae McNeal and junior Madison Hovren have reached double-digit scoring in six straight games.
• Hovren is on a five-game double-double streak. Her career-long is six games.
• Senior Destinee Morris needs two more 3-pointers to pass Christine Gassman '03 in all-time makes from long range.
• Janae McNeal is four more assists away from breaking into the top-10 in program history.
THE ALL-TIME SERIES
• Series record: Army 33, Lehigh 31
• First meeting: Jan. 6, 1984, Army won, 74-72
• Last meeting: Jan. 20, 2018, Lehigh won, 59-55
ARMY (11-10, 4-6 PATRIOT LEAGUE)
• Army is 7-1 this season three or more Cadets reach double-digit scoring in a game. Janae McNeal (25), Hovren (16) and Daizjah Morris (12) all posted double-figures in the scoring column against Holy Cross on Feb. 14.
• 11 of the Black Knights' 13 wins this season have come when the team has shot the ball at a 40-percent clip or better. Since the 2010-11 season, Army is 116-11 when reaching that mark.
• Senior Janae McNeal has been on a tear over her past six games. Shooting the ball at a 47 percent clip, the Spotsylvania, Va., native has posted a pair of 20-point efforts, while averaging 16.3 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.8 steals per game.
• During her six-game double-digit scoring streak, Hovren has averaged 18.3 points and 11.8 rebounds per game. She has reached the 20-point mark on three separate occasions and has connected on 50 percent of her shots.
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LEHIGH (13-2, 7-7 PATRIOT LEAGUE)
• Lehigh currently sits in fourth in the Patriot League standings with an even 7-7 mark. Entering last Wednesday's game, the Mountain Hawks were 7-4, but have since dropped three straight. Those three defeats came at the hands of Bucknell, American and Colgate.
• The same starting five has taken the court in all 25 outings for Lehigh, with Quinci Mann and Camryn Buhr leading the way in the scoring column with 14.0 and 13.0 points per game, respectively. The duo ranks inside the top-10 in the Patriot League in scoring. Buhr has shot the ball over 43 percent from the field, while also leading the team in rebounding (6.9).
• The Mountain Hawks have been in a scoring rut during their previous five outings. In four of the last five games, they have been unable to score more than 52 points against the opposition, while not surpassing the 48-point mark in their last two.
• Over the team's past six games, Lehigh is allowing the opposition to shoot 42 percent from the field.
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AUDIO • Black Knights Radio
VIDEO • Patriot League Network
LIVE STATS • GoArmyWestPoint.com
GAME NOTES • Army | Lehigh
TICKETS • GoArmyWestPoint.comÂ
TWITTER • @ArmyWP_WBB
GAMEDAY STORYLINES
• Saturday's outing is the 65th all-time meeting between Army and Lehigh.
• Senior Janae McNeal and junior Madison Hovren have reached double-digit scoring in six straight games.
• Hovren is on a five-game double-double streak. Her career-long is six games.
• Senior Destinee Morris needs two more 3-pointers to pass Christine Gassman '03 in all-time makes from long range.
• Janae McNeal is four more assists away from breaking into the top-10 in program history.
THE ALL-TIME SERIES
• Series record: Army 33, Lehigh 31
• First meeting: Jan. 6, 1984, Army won, 74-72
• Last meeting: Jan. 20, 2018, Lehigh won, 59-55
ARMY (11-10, 4-6 PATRIOT LEAGUE)
• Army is 7-1 this season three or more Cadets reach double-digit scoring in a game. Janae McNeal (25), Hovren (16) and Daizjah Morris (12) all posted double-figures in the scoring column against Holy Cross on Feb. 14.
• 11 of the Black Knights' 13 wins this season have come when the team has shot the ball at a 40-percent clip or better. Since the 2010-11 season, Army is 116-11 when reaching that mark.
• Senior Janae McNeal has been on a tear over her past six games. Shooting the ball at a 47 percent clip, the Spotsylvania, Va., native has posted a pair of 20-point efforts, while averaging 16.3 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.8 steals per game.
• During her six-game double-digit scoring streak, Hovren has averaged 18.3 points and 11.8 rebounds per game. She has reached the 20-point mark on three separate occasions and has connected on 50 percent of her shots.
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LEHIGH (13-2, 7-7 PATRIOT LEAGUE)
• Lehigh currently sits in fourth in the Patriot League standings with an even 7-7 mark. Entering last Wednesday's game, the Mountain Hawks were 7-4, but have since dropped three straight. Those three defeats came at the hands of Bucknell, American and Colgate.
• The same starting five has taken the court in all 25 outings for Lehigh, with Quinci Mann and Camryn Buhr leading the way in the scoring column with 14.0 and 13.0 points per game, respectively. The duo ranks inside the top-10 in the Patriot League in scoring. Buhr has shot the ball over 43 percent from the field, while also leading the team in rebounding (6.9).
• The Mountain Hawks have been in a scoring rut during their previous five outings. In four of the last five games, they have been unable to score more than 52 points against the opposition, while not surpassing the 48-point mark in their last two.
• Over the team's past six games, Lehigh is allowing the opposition to shoot 42 percent from the field.
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