Complete Game Notes

GAME INFORMATION
Millersville (11-5, 8-4 PSAC) vs. Kutztown (10-6, 8-4 PSAC)
Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 - 1 p.m.
Pucillo Gymnasium, Millersville, Pa.

MEDIA INFORMATION
All-Access Live Video
Audio Broadcast (MSBN)
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

GAMEDAY PROMOTIONS

SERIES INFORMATION
Series vs. KU: 51-20
Series Streak: MU, 1
First Meeting: 1975-76 (MU 69, KU 55)
Last Meeting: 2012 (MU 65, KU 55)
Last 10: 8-2
Mary Fleig vs. Kutztown: 35-13
Janet Malouf vs. Millersville: 10-30

THE STARTING FIVE
(1) The Marauders are coming off a 69-55 road win at East Stroudsburg Wednesday night, one in which senior point guard Mashira Newman had a record-breaking performance. Newman picked off 11 Warrior passes, good for the most steals in a game in program history, passing the previous mark of 10, which five players (including current Millersville athletic director Peg Kauffman) shared. Newman added eight points and six assists in the win to go along with her record number of steals. Senior forward Aurielle Mosley also got back on track, scoring in double figures for the first time in four games as she paced the team with 20 points and eight rebounds. The win moves the Marauders to 11-5 and 8-4 in the PSAC East.

(2) Saturday's matchup will pit two teams jockeying for playoff positiong against each other. The Marauders and Golden Bears are in a tie for second place in the PSAC East standings with identical 8-4 conference records and are just a game behind top-ranked Bloomsburg, who enters Saturday's slate of games at 9-3 in PSAC contests. Not only will the winner at Pucillo Gymnasium grab a one-game lead on the loser and take second place to itself, but it also could mean a tie for first place, as the Huskies are in action at home against a tough West Chester team that defeated the Marauders last Saturday.

(3) Two key players who could be hitting her grooves for the Marauders at the right times are backcourt mates Senada Mehmedovic and Carly Gallagher. Fourth on the team in scoring at 10.7 points per game, Mehmedovic has hit for double digits in back-to-back games and has made eight 3-pointers in those past two outings. It is the third time this season that she has put together back-to-back double digit scoring games. As good as Mehmedovic has been, Gallagher may be even better over her last outings. The redshirt sophomor guard has been consistent over the past four games, scoring in double figures in each game since being held to just six against Edinboro back on Jan. 5. During those four games, she has put up averages of 12.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. Further, the two players are tied for the team lead in 3-point field percentage at 35.3 percent shooting each.

(4) Millersville holds homecourt advantage Saturday, and that will prove huge for the Marauders. Not only is the team slightly better at home (5-2, 4-2 PSAC) than it is on the road (5-3, 4-2 PSAC) so far this season, but it also welcomes a Golden Bear team that has struggled to win in Pucillo Gymnasium. Kutztown is just 4-29 all-time when visiting Millersville's home floor.

(5) In addition to the great defense the team plays, one of the things Millersville does best this season is distributing the ball and having scoring balance offensively. Four players (Mosley, 6th; Newman, 12th; Gallagher, 18th and Mehmedovic, 26th) all rank in the top 26 of the PSAC in scoring average.  Even though there are seven PSAC schools that put four scorers among the top 50 (five from the PSAC East), the only other team that can lay claim to having four players inside the top 26 is Shippensburg.

ABOUT KUTZTOWN
· Kutztown enters Pucillo Gymnasium on a hot streak as winners of three straight contests, topping West Chester, East Stroudsburg and Cheyney in successive outings. After starting the season slow at 1-3, the Golden Bears have turned it around, posting a 9-3 record over their last 12 games and are currently deadlocked with Millersville for second place in the PSAC East standings at 8-4 in league play.
· For the 18th-straight year, head coach Janet Malouf paces the sidelines for the 2012-13 Golden Bears. Although Malouf has won more games (265) and more PSAC contests (123) than any other coach in program history, one thing she hasn't been able to do is defeat Mary Fleig, the Marauders' longtime head coach. The Kutztown coach is just 10-30 when her and Fleig's teams square off in PSAC play. Despite the record, her 2011-12 team did earn a split with Millersville, claiming a 63-57 win in the first meeting before falling at Pucillo Gymnasium, 65-55. Malouf has particularly found Pucillo Gymnasium to be a “House of Horrors”,  as she only owns one career victory in her 21 trips to Millersville, a slim 63-62 win over the Marauders all the way back on Jan. 10, 2001.
· This year has been a bit of a turnaround year for a Golden Bear team that finished last year just 8-20 overall and 6-16 in conference play. Even though their struggles at Millersville in the all-time series have been well-documented (4-29 record), Kutztown's strength with this year's team is actually its road play, as it boasts a 6-3 record away from Keystone Arena.
· Kutztown posseses nearly as much balance offensively as the Marauders do. KU is one of five teams from the PSAC East that can boast four scorers inside the PSAC's top 50 overall. However, where all four Millersville players average double figures in points per game, only two from the Golden Bear lineup can say the same; Ashley Wood, who leads the team in scoring at 13.2 points per game and Natalya Lee, who scores 10.4 points per game. Wood is also the team's second-best distributor, posting 2.9 assists per game to trail only Arianna Apostolopoulos, who scores just 4.2 points per game but hands out a team-best 3.4 assists per contest. But even with Wood holding the team scoring lead, Lee the other player in double figures and Apostolopoulos leading the team in helpers, its arguable that none of those three players are Kutztown's best.
· A big player the Marauders will have to keep their eyes on in the post is third-leading scorer Alyssa Bonenberger, who averages 9.6 points per game. Bonenberger's scoring isn't her most important contribution to her team, as she leads the Golden Bears in rebounding with 9.5 per game. That figure also ranks her third in the PSAC, behind just Clarion's Hannah Heeter and Shippensburg's Stephanie Knauer.
· As many players as the Marauders have to watch out for on the offensive end, Kutztown's calling card comes on the opposite end of the floor. The Golden Bears are the sixth-best scoring defense in the PSAC, one spot behind the fifth-ranked Marauders. Millersville allows 60.1 points per game and KU allows just 60.8 points per game.