Army West Point Athletics
Saturday, January 9
West Point, N.Y.
1 PM
Army West Point
vs
Loyola
Loyola Visits Christl Arena for League Contest
January 08, 2016 | Women's Basketball
WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army West Point women's basketball team returns to Christl Arena to face Loyola on Saturday, Jan. 9 at 1 p.m.
HOW TO FOLLOW
TELEVISION • None
RADIO • 1420 WLNA-AM/1260 WBNR-AM
VIDEO • Patriot League Network
AUDIO • Knight Vision • GoArmyWestPoint.com
LIVE STATISTICS • sidearmstats.com/army/wbball • GoArmyWestPoint.com
GAME NOTES • Army Notes
TICKETS • Women's Basketball tickets
TWITTER • @ArmyWP_WBB
STORYLINES
Army got back on a winning track with a 78-45 victory at Lafayette on Jan. 6. The Black Knights' senior class scored a season-high 63 points in the win, including 30 points from Kelsey Minato and a career-high-tying 19 from Aimee Oertner.
Minato, who currently ranks fourth nationally in scoring average with 24.1 points per game, was named NCAA Women's Basketball's Top Performer of Wednesday after scoring 30 points and adding seven rebounds and seven assists. The Huntington Beach, Calif., native is shooting .683 (28-for-41) and .571 (8-of-14) from three-point range in two games since the turn of the New Year.
Oertner, who became Army's career blocked shots leader with six blocks at Bucknell on Jan. 2, notched a career-best seven blocks in the Lafayette game. Oertner enters the weekend ranked third in the Patriot League with 2.8 blocks per contest.
THE ARMY-LOYOLA SERIES
Army owns a 5-4 lead in its all-time series against Loyola, including a 4-0 record since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2013-14.
ARMY WEST POINT (11-2, 2-1 PATRIOT LEAGUE) NOTES
• Three Black Knight seniors scored at least 10 points, including Minato, who totaled 30 points to mark her second straight 30-point game after netting 35 at Bucknell on Jan. 2. Minato shot 80.0 percent (12-of-15) from the field to include a 71.4 percent (5-of-7) performance from deep, while adding seven rebounds and seven assists.
• Oertner matched her career scoring standard with 19 points, on 7-of-8 shooting and 5-of-5 free-throw shooting, and contributed five boards and a career-high seven blocks.
• Senior Jean Parker reached double-digit points for the fifth time this season, finishing with 11 points and five rebounds.
• The Black Knights used runs of 13-0, 10-0 and 18-0 to build their lead to as many as 40 points in the fourth quarter before finishing out the 33-point win.
LOYOLA (5-9, 2-1 PATRIOT LEAGUE) NOTES
• Loyola slipped to 2-1 in the Patriot League during its last outing, falling to Lehigh on the road, 66-48, on Jan. 6.
• Senior Colleen Marshall led the Greyhounds with 16 points and seven steals, while graduate student Steph Smith and seniors Diana Logan and Jeneh Perry all scored seven points.
• After trailing by 13 in the first half, Loyola trimmed its deficit to five points, 26-21, at halftime. Bri Betz-White sank a pair of free-throws early in the second half to cap a 9-4 Loyola run to begin the third quarter and knot the contest at 30-30 before Lehigh answered with an 11-1 run to regain a double-digit lead that it maintained for the majority of the remaining quarter and a half.
• Marshall leads Loyola, and stands sixth in the Patriot League, with 14.7 points per game.
DIALED IN FROM DOWNTOWN
Army has continued to shoot the three-pointer well this year after finishing each of the last three seasons atop the Patriot League in three-point shooting percentage (2012-13: 33.3 // 2013-14: 37.2 // 2014-15: 35.4). Through 13 contests this season, the Black Knights have made 41.5 percent of their three-point attempts and currently stand first in the Patriot League and fourth among the nation's Division I programs in the category.
Army's long-range success is due, in large part, to two of the most-accurate three-point shooters in Academy history, in Minato and Parker. Minato paces the team with 41 triples and stands fourth in the conference with a 46.1 percentage from deep. Parker has converted 27 shots from beyond the arc and ranks second in the league, and ninth nationally, at 49.1 percent. Minato is Army's career leader in three-pointers, with 262, while Parker ranks fifth in team history with 118.
CRASHING THE BOARDS
After finishing near the bottom of the Patriot League in the rebounding department in 2014-15, Army currently stands fourth in the conference with 39.0 rebounds per contest. The Black Knights collected 44 boards in the season opener against Pepperdine before hauling in 40+ rebounds versus Quinnipiac (43), Central Connecticut State (44), Rider (41), Yale (44), Emerson (42), Lehigh (40) and Lafayette (45). Army reached the 40-rebound mark three times all of last season and has already done so eight times this year.
UP NEXT
The Black Knights are back in action on Wednesday, Jan. 13, when they host Colgate for a 7 p.m. matchup.
HOW TO FOLLOW
TELEVISION • None
RADIO • 1420 WLNA-AM/1260 WBNR-AM
VIDEO • Patriot League Network
AUDIO • Knight Vision • GoArmyWestPoint.com
LIVE STATISTICS • sidearmstats.com/army/wbball • GoArmyWestPoint.com
GAME NOTES • Army Notes
TICKETS • Women's Basketball tickets
TWITTER • @ArmyWP_WBB
STORYLINES
Army got back on a winning track with a 78-45 victory at Lafayette on Jan. 6. The Black Knights' senior class scored a season-high 63 points in the win, including 30 points from Kelsey Minato and a career-high-tying 19 from Aimee Oertner.
Minato, who currently ranks fourth nationally in scoring average with 24.1 points per game, was named NCAA Women's Basketball's Top Performer of Wednesday after scoring 30 points and adding seven rebounds and seven assists. The Huntington Beach, Calif., native is shooting .683 (28-for-41) and .571 (8-of-14) from three-point range in two games since the turn of the New Year.
Oertner, who became Army's career blocked shots leader with six blocks at Bucknell on Jan. 2, notched a career-best seven blocks in the Lafayette game. Oertner enters the weekend ranked third in the Patriot League with 2.8 blocks per contest.
THE ARMY-LOYOLA SERIES
Army owns a 5-4 lead in its all-time series against Loyola, including a 4-0 record since the Greyhounds joined the Patriot League in 2013-14.
ARMY WEST POINT (11-2, 2-1 PATRIOT LEAGUE) NOTES
• Three Black Knight seniors scored at least 10 points, including Minato, who totaled 30 points to mark her second straight 30-point game after netting 35 at Bucknell on Jan. 2. Minato shot 80.0 percent (12-of-15) from the field to include a 71.4 percent (5-of-7) performance from deep, while adding seven rebounds and seven assists.
• Oertner matched her career scoring standard with 19 points, on 7-of-8 shooting and 5-of-5 free-throw shooting, and contributed five boards and a career-high seven blocks.
• Senior Jean Parker reached double-digit points for the fifth time this season, finishing with 11 points and five rebounds.
• The Black Knights used runs of 13-0, 10-0 and 18-0 to build their lead to as many as 40 points in the fourth quarter before finishing out the 33-point win.
LOYOLA (5-9, 2-1 PATRIOT LEAGUE) NOTES
• Loyola slipped to 2-1 in the Patriot League during its last outing, falling to Lehigh on the road, 66-48, on Jan. 6.
• Senior Colleen Marshall led the Greyhounds with 16 points and seven steals, while graduate student Steph Smith and seniors Diana Logan and Jeneh Perry all scored seven points.
• After trailing by 13 in the first half, Loyola trimmed its deficit to five points, 26-21, at halftime. Bri Betz-White sank a pair of free-throws early in the second half to cap a 9-4 Loyola run to begin the third quarter and knot the contest at 30-30 before Lehigh answered with an 11-1 run to regain a double-digit lead that it maintained for the majority of the remaining quarter and a half.
• Marshall leads Loyola, and stands sixth in the Patriot League, with 14.7 points per game.
DIALED IN FROM DOWNTOWN
Army has continued to shoot the three-pointer well this year after finishing each of the last three seasons atop the Patriot League in three-point shooting percentage (2012-13: 33.3 // 2013-14: 37.2 // 2014-15: 35.4). Through 13 contests this season, the Black Knights have made 41.5 percent of their three-point attempts and currently stand first in the Patriot League and fourth among the nation's Division I programs in the category.
Army's long-range success is due, in large part, to two of the most-accurate three-point shooters in Academy history, in Minato and Parker. Minato paces the team with 41 triples and stands fourth in the conference with a 46.1 percentage from deep. Parker has converted 27 shots from beyond the arc and ranks second in the league, and ninth nationally, at 49.1 percent. Minato is Army's career leader in three-pointers, with 262, while Parker ranks fifth in team history with 118.
CRASHING THE BOARDS
After finishing near the bottom of the Patriot League in the rebounding department in 2014-15, Army currently stands fourth in the conference with 39.0 rebounds per contest. The Black Knights collected 44 boards in the season opener against Pepperdine before hauling in 40+ rebounds versus Quinnipiac (43), Central Connecticut State (44), Rider (41), Yale (44), Emerson (42), Lehigh (40) and Lafayette (45). Army reached the 40-rebound mark three times all of last season and has already done so eight times this year.
UP NEXT
The Black Knights are back in action on Wednesday, Jan. 13, when they host Colgate for a 7 p.m. matchup.
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