Complete Game Notes


GAME INFORMATION
Millersville (13-7, 10-6 PSAC) vs. Cheyney (0-20, 0-16 PSAC)
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 - 6 p.m.
Millersville, Pa. - Pucillo Gymnasium

MEDIA INFORMATION
Audio Broadcast (MSBN)
Live Video
Live Stats

TICKET INFORMATION
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Reserved Seating: $8
General Admission (Doubleheader): $6
General Admission (Single game): $5
Senior Citizen: $3
Visiting Students with ID: $3
Children under 6: FREE
MU Students: FREE with valid ID
Faculty and Staff: FREE with one guest with valid ID

SERIES INFORMATION
Ville leads 52-15
First Meeting: 1961-62 (MU 54, CU 26)
Last Meeting: 2012 (Ville 66, CU 49)
Current Streak: MU, 4
Last 10: MU, 9-1

THE STARTING FIVE
(1) Millersville is coming off of a .500 week where it gave up a 21-point halftime lead to PSAC East leading Bloomsburg on Wednesday to fall 77-73. On Wednesday the Marauders responded by defeating West Chester on the road 69-68. Millersville is now 7-0 (5-0 PSAC) after a loss this season.

(2) The Marauders have scored 42 or more points in the first half in three of their last four games. They are now 3-1 when scoring above 40 points in the first half this season. Millersville's only loss came to Bloomsburg last Wednesday after it led 42-21 at the break. Cheyney is averaging just 48 points per game this season. The Marauders scored 47 in the first half against Shippensburg on Jan. 25..
 
(3) Head Coach Mary Fleig is 42-2 all time against Cheyney dating back to the 1990-91 season. The Marauders  cruised past the Wolves in their meeting on Jan. 16 at Cope Hall. Cheyney made it interesting early in the first half down just six points before the Marauders took full control in the second half for a 66-49 victory. Cheyney has not won at Pucillo Gymansium since it did so on Feb. 22, 1986. The Wolves have lost 25-straight games at Pucillo.

(4) Mashira Newman ended a 71-game steal streak on Saturday at West Chester. Newman had collected at least one steal per game since Dec. 30, 2009 when Millersville fell at University of the District of Columbia in what was just her ninth game as a Marauder. In 80 career games, Newman has gone without a steal in just three including the game on Saturday at West Chester.

(5) Newman, however, is currently on an eight-game double-figures streak to lead the Marauders. Newman is second on the team with 13.3 points per game. Redshirt freshman has hit at least one 3-pointer in each of her 10 games since coming back from injury and is currently on a double-figures streak of four games. Aurielle Mosley has led the Marauders in scoring in each of the last four games, including three-straight double-doubles.

ABOUT CHEYNEY
• Cheyney is off to its worse start since the 2000-01 season when it began 1-17. The Wolves, currently 0-20, won their first game of 2000-01 then lost 17-straight. Cheyney has not won game since Feb. 5, 2011 when it beat East Stroudsburg at home by a score of 74-66. The Wolves have no beat Millersville since Jan. 27, 2010 when they defeated the Marauders 67-58 at home.

• The Wolves are averaging a PSAC low 48.2 points per game, while giving up 75.4 points per game. Cheyney has finished a game within 10  points of its opponents just three times this season. Most recently, the Wolves outscored Mansfield in the second half by six points but fell 57-54.

• Senior Nadirah Brown and freshman Aerie DeJesus have led the Wolves in scoring in 18 of their 20 games this season. Brown is leading the team with 12.7 points per game, while also leading the team with 7.7 rebounds per game. DeJesus is the only other Wolves player to average double-figures with 11.8 points per game. DeJesus is a two-time PSAC East Freshman of the Week this season, in consecutive weeks from Jan. 23-30.

• Cheyney is coming off its worse shooting performance of the season where it went 11-of-61 (18 percent) from the field against Bloomsburg on Saturday. The Huskies blasted the Wolves by a score of 86-30. Cheyney shot 5-of-36 in the first half for just 11 points.