Complete Game Notes

GAME INFORMATION
Millersville (15-6, 12-5 PSAC) at Cheyney (1-19, 1-16 PSAC)
Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 6 p.m.
Kope Gymnasium, Cheyney, Pa.

MEDIA INFORMATION
Audio Broadcast (MSBN)

SERIES INFORMATION
Series vs. Cheyney: 54-15
Series Streak: MU, 6
First Meeting:  1961-62 (MU, 54-26)
Last Meeting: 2013 (MU, 64-34)
Last 10: 9-1
Mary Fleig vs. Cheyney: 44-2
Marilyn Stephens vs. Millersville: 1-8

GAME NOTES
· Millersville and Cheyney are at bookends of the PSAC East, as the Marauders share the top spot with Shippensburg and Bloomsburg all at 12-5 in PSAC play. The Wolves, meanwhile, sit in the division cellar at 1-19 (1-16 PSAC). The Marauders and Wolves have met already this season, with a 64-34 win coming in favor of Millersville on the Pucillo Gymnasium hardwood. Wednesday's road team has won six consecutive games in the series between the teams, but have a long way to go if it wants to match the all-time win streak in the series history; from Feb. 11, 1991 to Feb. 18, 2009, Millersville won 38 head-to-head meetings in a row.
· The Marauders are coming off a successful 2-0 week in which the team beat both Bloomsburg and West Chester, respectively, to remain tied atop the PSAC East standings. The back-to-back victories extend Millersville's win streak to three games, the highest amount of consecutive wins since the team opened the 2012-13 season with five straight wins to claim a 5-0 record. It also means that the Marauders are now 3-0 in the month of February, which represents the most wins to open a month since November of 2011. If the team can reach 4-0 in the second month of 2013, it will be the most wins to start a month since a year prior to the previous mark, going all the way back to November of 2010.
· Junior guard Senada Mehmedovic has had a productive past two outings, totaling 18 points per game with seven 3-pointers made and averages of 6.5 rebounds, 4.5 steals and 3.5 assists per game. The hot string comes after a stretch in which the Carlisle native had not hit double digits in three consecutive outings. Mehmedovic's 24 points Saturday against West Chester were a game-high and were just three points shy of her career-high of 27, set Nov. 26 against Philadelphia, when she torched the Rams for 27 points on 9-of-16 shooting. Against Bloom, Mehmedovic also came up huge, stealing the ball from reigning PSAC East Player of the Year Dana Wieller in the final minute and converting on both free throw attempts on the other end to give the Marauders the win. But her biggest contribution to the team this season is Mehmedovic's ability to space the floor; she has hit a 3-pointer in all but two games, and 135 of her 209 field goal attempts this season are from beyond the arc.
· Redshirt senior guard Mashira Newman's three assists Saturday against the Golden Rams gave her 100 for the season. It is the third straight season she has hit triple digits in assists. She also needs just 21 steals to reach 100 in that category for the third season in her career, picking opponents' pockets 79 times this season. The figure of 100 must be a lucky number for Newman, as she is also working on two triple-digit streaks: she has played 109 consecutive games and if she can put one point on the board Wednesday, it will be her 100th consecutive game in the scoring column.
· Newman is working on passing current Millersville athletic director Peg Kauffman, but teammate and fellow redshirt senior Aurielle Mosley, who had a double-double of 23 points and 13 rebounds against the Golden Rams, is nipping on Newman's heels in the scoring section of the record books. Mosley now has 1,292 points for her career, which ranks her ninth all-time. With eight points against Cheyney, she would become just the eighth player in program history to score 1,300 career points and can take aim at one of her assistant coaches, Darlene Newman, who ranks seventh on the all-time list with 1,305 career points.

ABOUT CHEYNEY
· Cheyney hosts Millersville Wednesday and is reeling again, coming into the matchup with a four game skid after the team snapped a 47-game losing streak earlier this season on Jan. 26 against Mansfield. The 52-45 victory last month on the road was the only one of the season for Wednesday's home team.
· Although the Wolves are just 1-19 this season and 1-16 against the PSAC, the last time Cheyney defeated Millersville was at home in a matchup three years ago on Jan. 27, 2010. In that game, Cheyney downed the Marauders by a 67-58 score. In fact, as history would show, the Wolves have been better at home against Millersville; in the games where location can be determined, five of Cheyney's eight wins against the Marauders have come at Kope Gymnasium. In Cheyney's win over Mansfield, it had to overcome a six-point first half deficit and held the Mountaineers to just 32.7 percent shooting from the floor, including 21.4 percent from 3-point range. The Wolves' key to victory was the second chance points, where they cashed in 20 offensive rebounds for 19 points. The biggest game for the Wolves in that contest came from Shayna Miller, who posted nine points, 11 rebounds, two steals, a block and an assist in 39 minutes of action. Lachelle Miller and Tamara Russell split the team's scoring duties with 11 points apiece. Lachelle Miller also put up eight steals, five boards and three assists.
· For the season, Kyra Hines-Allen is the team's leading scorer and the only player to average in double figures with 11.1 points per game. Hines-Allen, who was held to just five points in the first meeting against Millersville on just 1-for-12 shooting, does need to be more efficient for the Wolves if they have a chance of staying in the game against the Marauders. She shoots at just a 30.8 percent rate for the season, but has posted 10 double digit outings in 19 games, including a season-high 24 against Mercyhurst on Jan. 12. While Hines-Allen typically handles the bulk of the scoring duties, Russell may be the team's most complete player, averaging 8.5 points per game to rank second on the team, as well as team-leading totals in rebounds (5.7) and assists per game (1.6).
· The trouble for Cheyney is stability in the starting five and doling out key minutes to a firm rotation. All but two players have played at least 11 games, and even more concerning is that 10 of the team's 14 players have started at least four games so far this season, giving head coach Marilyn Stephens a hard time figuringout what lineup combinations work together effectively. The Wolves' other big shortcoming is shooting efficiency, especially from the perimeter. Cheyney hits just 28.6 percent of the team's field goal attempts and makes 3-pointers at a rate of just 21.7 percent, or 38 of the team's 175 attempts.
· One of the team's biggest strengths is offensive rebounding. The Wolves have pulled down 317 offensive boards so far this season, just two fewer than the total of the team's opponents at 319 in 2012-13.