Complete Game Notes

GAME INFORMATION
Millersville (11-6, 8-5 PSAC) at Mansfield (7-10, 4-9 PSAC)
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 - 1 p.m.
Mansfield, Pa. - Decker Gymnasium

MEDIA INFORMATION
Audio Broadcast (MSBN)
Live Stats

SERIES INFORMATION
Ville leads 55-3
First Meeting: 1981-82 (Ville 72, Man 46)
Last Meeting: 2011 (Ville 68, Man 51)
Current Streak: Ville, 9
Last 10: Ville, 9-1

THE STARTING FIVE
(1) Head Coach Mary Fleig holds a 41-2 record against Mansfield, including an 18-2 all-time record at Decker Gymnasium. Fleig won her first 30 games against Mansfield, including 14-straight on the road. The Mountaineers captured their first win against Fleig, just second all-time against Millersville, on Jan. 18, 2006 at Decker Gymnasium by a score of  64-61. Mansfield is 3-55 all-time against the Marauders, with all of its wins coming on home court.

(2) Redshirt junior Mashira Newman moved into the top 20 in career points at Millersville with 969 after her fifth-straight game in double-figures on Wednesday against Shippensburg. Newman, who is averaging 12.9 points per game, has averaged 15.2 points over the last five games. Newman needs just 31 points to eclipse the 1,000 points mark. She scored 30 points against Shippensburg a year ago for her only 30-point performance of her career. Newman will become just the 18th Millersville women's basketball player to score 1,000 points.
 
(3) Millersville is now 6-0 (4-0 PSAC) this year when coming off of a loss. More impressively, the Marauders' offense had their best performance of the year in their last outing against Shippensburg. After shooting just 28 percent a week ago at Kutztown, Millersville finished the game with a season-high 51 percent from the field in its rout of Shippensburg. It is just the second time this season the Marauders finished above 50 percent. The Marauders also scored a season-high 47 first-half points against the Raiders, while shooting 59 percent from the field.

(4) The Marauders are now 5-0 (4-0 PSAC) when scoring 70 or more points this season. Millersville is just 3-5 (2-4 PSAC) when scoring below 60 points, which shows that when the Marauders offense is flowing they are a tough team to beat.   When scoring atleast 70 points this season Millersville average margin of victory is 21.4 points.

(5) Millersville's next two opponents are against Bloomsburg (2/1) and at West Chester (2/4) next week. The Marauders are just one game behind Bloomsburg and two behind West Chester for the top spot in the PSAC East.

ABOUT MANSFIELD
• Mansfield has already matched its win total from the 2010-11 season. The Mountaineers are 7-10 (4-9 PSAC) and currently on its longest win streak of the season, two games. Mansfield took down Cheyney on the road by a score of 57-54 last Saturday before routing Kutztown at Decker Gymnasium on Wednesday by a score of 81-69. Freshman Marrysa Moyer and junior Julia Stevenson both recorded double-doubles in the win over the Golden Bears.
    
• The Mountaineers are challenging teams this season despite having a losing record. Mansfield is allowing just 69 points per game, while scoring 66 for a scoring margin of -3. The Mountaineers gave Bloomsburg all it could handle before eventually falling by a score of 84-75. Mansfield is 3-2 against the PSAC East this season, 1-7 against the West. Millersville is also 3-2 agains the PSAC East, but it went 5-3 against the West.

• Senior Mallory Moore was named PSAC East Athlete of the Week for the second consecutive week, while also being named Eastern  College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Athlete of the Week for the second time this season. Moore leads the Mountaineers in scoring with 312 total points, 18.4 per game to rank first in the PSAC. Moore also ranks first in the conference in free throw percentage at 87.4 percent (111/127) and steals  with 58 (3.4 per game).

• Head Coach Ruth Hermansen took over the Mansfield program prior to the 1999-00 and was able to turn around a one-win program. In 2004, the Mountaineers won a season-best 14 games. Hermansen has not had much luck against Millersville's Fleig, only collecting two wins in 27 tries. Both of those wins did come at Decker Gymnasium in back-to-back affairs.