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Southeast Missouri (8-14, 2-7 Ohio Valley) at Austin Peay (6-15, 1-8 Ohio Valley)
Game Information
Date: Monday, February 4, 2013
Tip-Off: 7:00 p.m., CT
Location: Clarksville, Tenn.
Site: Dave Aaron Arena (7,257)
Series Record: Austin Peay leads 25-19 (2012-13: Southeast leads 1-0)
Last Meeting: W, 71-57 in Cape Girardeau, Mo. (January 7, 2013)
Coaches: Ty Margenthaler (15-36 overall, 15-36 at Southeast); Carrie Daniels (78-132 overall, 78-132 at Austin Peay)
Media Coverage
Redhawks Radio Network: ESPN 1220 AM (KGIR), flagship; 930 AM (KWOC); 1470 AM (KMAL). Todd Bonacki, Play-by-Play
Live Stats: APSUGovernors.com
Video Streaming: OVC Digital Network
Quick Hits
About Austin Peay – The Lady Govs are desperate for a victory after dropping a 65-61 decision to Murray State on Saturday. That setback left APSU at 1-8 in conference play (6-15 overall). Meghan Bussabarger is coming off a 22-point 11-rebound double-double and leads the team in scoring at 13.2 points per game (ninth in the OVC). Leslie Martinez is also in double figures on average, scoring 11.6 points per game and ranking sixth in the league in rebounding at 7.8 per contest. The Lady Govs are aggressive defensively, leading the league with 9.9 steals per game. The flip side to that is that APSU is 11th in the OVC in scoring defense (69.6 points against per game) and dead last in field goal defense (44.6 percent) and three-point defense (34.8 percent). The Lady Govs are also the league's second-worst rebounding squad, getting outworked on the glass by seven rebounds per game.
Last Meeting – Four Redhawks scored in double figures, led by
Jordan Hunter's career-high 21 points as Southeast cruised to a 71-57 victory. The Redhawks led by as many as 18 points in the second half. Southeast took the lead for good with 9:55 left in the first half, outscoring APSU 24-14 in the final 10 minutes of the frame to take a 10-point lead into the locker room at halftime.
Brittany Harriel added a season-high 19 points off the bench while
Bailie Roberts added 12 points and
Allyson Bradshaw scored 10 more. The Redhawks' bench outscored the Lady Govs' reserves 31-14 in a winning effort.
With a win, Southeast would…
•Snap a six-game losing streak.
•Secure a season sweep of Austin Peay for the first time since the 2007-08 season.
•Win at Austin Peay for the first time since Jan. 12, 2008.
•Surpass last season's road win total.
Important Return – Southeast got an important player back in the lineup on Saturday when senior
Courtney Shiffer suited up. Shiffer missed five games due to a concussion sustained at practice a few weeks ago and the Redhawks dropped all five of those games, allowing 76 points per contest. Prior to the, Southeast was allowing only 60.8 points per game and her return, including allowing only 52 points against Saint Louis on Jan. 9, the last game before the injury. With her back, Southeast held OVC East leader Eastern Kentucky to 53 points on 32.1 percent shooting. The Redhawks have allowed less than 60 points in nine of the 17 games Shiffer has played this year, but allowed 68 or more in the five games she missed.
The Road Ahead – Southeast's six-game losing streak dropped the team to 10th in the overall OVC standings at 2-7, placing the Redhawks on the outside looking in on the OVC tournament field, which takes the top eight teams in the league to Nashville. Southeast will have to climb the standings against some of the better teams in the conference as five of its remaining seven games come against teams that have a .500 or better conference record. The Redhawks also need to find a way to win on the road, where they are 1-10 this season, as they have four road games left on the docket, two of which are against teams that are above .500 in league play.
Record Shooters – Bailie Roberts and
Allyson Bradshaw etched their names into the Southeast record books during its road trip last weekend. The duo cracked the Redhawks' career top-10 list of three-pointers made. Roberts sits 10th all-time at Southeast with 71 three-pointers in her four-year career. In only her second year, Bradshaw sits ninth in school history with 74 three-point makes, eight behind Anne Cate's career total of 82. The Cape Girardeau, Mo., native has hit 40 three-pointers this season and is 12 makes shy of cracking the single-season top-10 list at Southeast.
Nearing a Milestone – Senior
Bailie Roberts has been on quite a roll lately, scoring in double figures in nine of Southeast's last 11 games and averaging 12.8 points per game in that span. Roberts is 100 points shy of becoming the 17th Redhawk to score 1,000 career points. In order to hit that mark during the regular season, she needs to average 14.3 points over Southeast's final seven games. Only six players have scored 1,000 points playing Division I at Southeast for their entire career dating back to the 1991-92 season. The last Southeast player to score 1,000 points was Tarina Nixon, who did so during the 2008-09 season and finished her career with 1,150 points.