Temple University Athletics
Wednesday, February 2
Liacouras Center
12:00 PM
Temple University
vs
Saint Louis
Danielle Brinkley
Photo by: Joseph V. Labolito/Temple University
Women's Basketball to Face Saint Louis in Ninth Annual "School Day" Game on Wednesday
2.1.11 | Women's Basketball
Owls and Billikens will tip-off at noon on Wed., Feb. 2 in the Liacouras Center
Game Notes vs. Saint Louis (PDF)
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PHILADELPHIA - Going for consecutive win number nine, the Temple women's basketball team will host Saint Louis on Wednesday, Feb. 2 at noon in the Liacouras Center. The contest marks the Owls' ninth annual "School Day" game, when local elementary school students are invited to attend. The game will be webcast live HERE, and live stats are available HERE.
Temple invites all faculty, staff and students to attend the game and have lunch at the Liacouras Center where you can buy one hot dog and get one free. Admission to the game is free with a Temple ID.
Prior to the introduction of the starting lineups, the Owls and head coach Tonya Cardoza will be making a special presentation to Kristen McCarthy and Qwedia Wallace who recently scored the 1,000th point of their careers.
Temple (15-6, 6-0) has won eight straight, ranking as its longest win streak since the 2006-07 season. The Owls are one of two undefeated teams in the Atlantic 10 along with #7 Xavier, and are dominating their league opponents so far with a scoring margin of 26.5 points per game.
Saint Louis is 7-14 overall and 1-5 in the Atlantic 10. The Billikens have gone 1-7 over their last eight contests, with their lone A-10 win coming at home vs. Fordham, 64-54. Senior Lauren Woods leads Saint Louis with 11.1 points per game while sophomore Mallory Eggert is averaging a team-best 6.9 rebounds per game.
SERIES RECORD
Temple is 5-0 against Saint Louis all-time, as the Owls have defeated the Billikens once in each season since Saint Louis joined the A-10 in 2005-06. The five wins have come by an average of nearly 15 points. Last year's meeting in Saint Louis was a 15-point, 63-48 win for Temple on Jan. 27.
OWLS SET 3-POINT SINGLE GAME RECORD
With 14 three-pointers in their win vs. Richmond on Jan. 29, the Owls surpassed the previous program record of 13, set a year ago. Kristen McCarthy was a perfect 5-of-5 from three-point range in the win, but it was senior Danielle Brinkley who was the hero.
Coming in off the bench with a previous career high of three points, Brinkley sank two three's to both tie the previous record and break it.
TOPS IN A-10 DEFENSE
In the conference-only stats, Temple is dominating in the defensive categories. The Owls are first in scoring defense (44.3 ppg), scoring margin (26.5 ppg), field goal pct. defense (.323), 3-pt pct. defense (.246), blocks (5.5 pg), steals (12.5 pg), turnover margin (+10.0) and assist/turnover ratio (1.4).
Shey Peddy is #1 in steals for league games (4.5 spg) and Victoria Macaulay is #1 in blocks for league games (2.2 bpg).
PEDDY THEFT
Shey Peddy, who has recorded at least one steal in 20 of Temple's 21 games, leads all players in the A-10 with 3.1 steals per game (4.5 in conference games). Peddy recorded an impressive eight steals in the Owls' win at UMass, marking her career high.
Peddy also ranks 18th in NCAA Division I with her 3.1 spg. At 65 steals for the season, she stands just six away from breaking into the all-time single-season steals list at Temple.
THREE GRAND
An impressive three Owls (Temple's three leading scorers) have reached the 1,000-point milestone this season. Junior Shey Peddy was first, hitting the mark on Dec. 21. Her current 1,121 points include two years playing at Division I Wright State. Junior Kristen McCarthy was next, reaching the milestone in a win vs. Saint Joseph's on Jan. 19, and has now scored 1,046 points to rank 15th all-time at Temple.
Senior Qwedia Wallace led the Owls with 21 points in a win at UMass on Jan. 26 to hit exactly 1,000 for her career. She was the 19th player in the history of the program to achieve the feat, and now ranks 18th with 1,008 points.
AP VOTES
For the first time since early in the season, Temple is receiving votes in the AP Poll. With four votes the Owls are ranked ninth of the 12 teams not in the top 25. Upcoming foe Duquesne is the third team receiving votes with 24.
ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Surprisingly for a team that had never been a real three-point threat, this year's squad has proven very capable of scoring from beyond the arc and is averaging 7.0 three's per game (2nd in the A-10). The Owls sank 14 vs. Richmond, 12 vs. #7 Ohio State and made 10 four other times (at #13/13 UCLA, vs. Rutgers, at Ohio and vs. Akron).
LOW TURNOVER RATE
The Owls rank 9th in the nation for fewest turnovers at 14.0 per game. After just once recording fewer than 10 turnovers in 2009-10, Temple has done so six times already this year, with a season-low of seven vs. #7 Ohio State.
THREE-POINT STREAK
The final game of the 2008-09 season marked the last time Temple did not hit at least one three-pointer. The Owls have now achieved that feat for 54 straight games.
BALANCED ATTACK
Temple's top three scorers are about as balanced as it gets, with Kristen McCarthy at 13.2 ppg followed by Shey Peddy and Qwedia Wallace at 12.7 and 12.5 ppg.
PEDDY EARNS A-10 PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Shey Peddy was named both the Atlantic 10 and Philadelphia Big 5 Women's Basketball Player of the Week on Jan. 31.
Peddy paced the Owls to an unbeaten 2-0 week and filled the stat sheet, averaging 15.5 points, 7.0 assists, 6.5 steals and 5.0 rebounds in both games, while shooting 52 percent (12-23) from the field and 100 percent (5-5) at the line. She tallied a career-high eight steals at UMass and a career-high nine assists vs. Richmond.
The A-10 honor is the first for Peddy this season and also the first for Temple, as the Owls have been very well-balanced on offense.
Watch Live
PHILADELPHIA - Going for consecutive win number nine, the Temple women's basketball team will host Saint Louis on Wednesday, Feb. 2 at noon in the Liacouras Center. The contest marks the Owls' ninth annual "School Day" game, when local elementary school students are invited to attend. The game will be webcast live HERE, and live stats are available HERE.
Temple invites all faculty, staff and students to attend the game and have lunch at the Liacouras Center where you can buy one hot dog and get one free. Admission to the game is free with a Temple ID.
Prior to the introduction of the starting lineups, the Owls and head coach Tonya Cardoza will be making a special presentation to Kristen McCarthy and Qwedia Wallace who recently scored the 1,000th point of their careers.
Temple (15-6, 6-0) has won eight straight, ranking as its longest win streak since the 2006-07 season. The Owls are one of two undefeated teams in the Atlantic 10 along with #7 Xavier, and are dominating their league opponents so far with a scoring margin of 26.5 points per game.
Saint Louis is 7-14 overall and 1-5 in the Atlantic 10. The Billikens have gone 1-7 over their last eight contests, with their lone A-10 win coming at home vs. Fordham, 64-54. Senior Lauren Woods leads Saint Louis with 11.1 points per game while sophomore Mallory Eggert is averaging a team-best 6.9 rebounds per game.
SERIES RECORD
Temple is 5-0 against Saint Louis all-time, as the Owls have defeated the Billikens once in each season since Saint Louis joined the A-10 in 2005-06. The five wins have come by an average of nearly 15 points. Last year's meeting in Saint Louis was a 15-point, 63-48 win for Temple on Jan. 27.
OWLS SET 3-POINT SINGLE GAME RECORD
With 14 three-pointers in their win vs. Richmond on Jan. 29, the Owls surpassed the previous program record of 13, set a year ago. Kristen McCarthy was a perfect 5-of-5 from three-point range in the win, but it was senior Danielle Brinkley who was the hero.
Coming in off the bench with a previous career high of three points, Brinkley sank two three's to both tie the previous record and break it.
TOPS IN A-10 DEFENSE
In the conference-only stats, Temple is dominating in the defensive categories. The Owls are first in scoring defense (44.3 ppg), scoring margin (26.5 ppg), field goal pct. defense (.323), 3-pt pct. defense (.246), blocks (5.5 pg), steals (12.5 pg), turnover margin (+10.0) and assist/turnover ratio (1.4).
Shey Peddy is #1 in steals for league games (4.5 spg) and Victoria Macaulay is #1 in blocks for league games (2.2 bpg).
PEDDY THEFT
Shey Peddy, who has recorded at least one steal in 20 of Temple's 21 games, leads all players in the A-10 with 3.1 steals per game (4.5 in conference games). Peddy recorded an impressive eight steals in the Owls' win at UMass, marking her career high.
Peddy also ranks 18th in NCAA Division I with her 3.1 spg. At 65 steals for the season, she stands just six away from breaking into the all-time single-season steals list at Temple.
THREE GRAND
An impressive three Owls (Temple's three leading scorers) have reached the 1,000-point milestone this season. Junior Shey Peddy was first, hitting the mark on Dec. 21. Her current 1,121 points include two years playing at Division I Wright State. Junior Kristen McCarthy was next, reaching the milestone in a win vs. Saint Joseph's on Jan. 19, and has now scored 1,046 points to rank 15th all-time at Temple.
Senior Qwedia Wallace led the Owls with 21 points in a win at UMass on Jan. 26 to hit exactly 1,000 for her career. She was the 19th player in the history of the program to achieve the feat, and now ranks 18th with 1,008 points.
AP VOTES
For the first time since early in the season, Temple is receiving votes in the AP Poll. With four votes the Owls are ranked ninth of the 12 teams not in the top 25. Upcoming foe Duquesne is the third team receiving votes with 24.
ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Surprisingly for a team that had never been a real three-point threat, this year's squad has proven very capable of scoring from beyond the arc and is averaging 7.0 three's per game (2nd in the A-10). The Owls sank 14 vs. Richmond, 12 vs. #7 Ohio State and made 10 four other times (at #13/13 UCLA, vs. Rutgers, at Ohio and vs. Akron).
LOW TURNOVER RATE
The Owls rank 9th in the nation for fewest turnovers at 14.0 per game. After just once recording fewer than 10 turnovers in 2009-10, Temple has done so six times already this year, with a season-low of seven vs. #7 Ohio State.
THREE-POINT STREAK
The final game of the 2008-09 season marked the last time Temple did not hit at least one three-pointer. The Owls have now achieved that feat for 54 straight games.
BALANCED ATTACK
Temple's top three scorers are about as balanced as it gets, with Kristen McCarthy at 13.2 ppg followed by Shey Peddy and Qwedia Wallace at 12.7 and 12.5 ppg.
PEDDY EARNS A-10 PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Shey Peddy was named both the Atlantic 10 and Philadelphia Big 5 Women's Basketball Player of the Week on Jan. 31.
Peddy paced the Owls to an unbeaten 2-0 week and filled the stat sheet, averaging 15.5 points, 7.0 assists, 6.5 steals and 5.0 rebounds in both games, while shooting 52 percent (12-23) from the field and 100 percent (5-5) at the line. She tallied a career-high eight steals at UMass and a career-high nine assists vs. Richmond.
The A-10 honor is the first for Peddy this season and also the first for Temple, as the Owls have been very well-balanced on offense.
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