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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University women's basketball team will begin the stretch run of its 2016-17 season Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. against Edinboro University at McComb Fieldhouse in Edinboro, Pennsylvania.
 
GAME 27 DETAILS
Opponent: Edinboro University
Date: Feb. 22, 2017 – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Edinboro, Pennsylvania – McComb Fieldhouse
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All-Time Series: Tied 43-43
Last Played: Jan. 21, 2017 (Slippery Rock won 69-58 at SRU)
 
SERIES HISTORY
Slippery Rock and Edinboro have evenly split 86 games all-time. After losing 10 straight games to the Fighting Scots from 2009-14, SRU has won two out of its last five games against Edinboro. A victory by The Rock on Wednesday would give SRU its first season sweep of Edinboro since the 2008-09 season.
 
LAST MEETING (Box Score)
Slippery Rock defeated Edinboro 69-58 at Morrow Field House on Jan. 21, 2017 thanks to a stout defensive effort that saw SRU hold the Fighting Scots to a 31.6 field goal percentage. Lexi Carpenter was dominant in The Rock's win against Edinboro earlier in the season, scoring 35 points, grabbing five rebounds, passing out four assists and making three steals. C.C. Dixon added a near double-double of 11 points and seven rebounds as well.
 
SLIPPERY ROCK PRIMER
Record: 9-17
PSAC West Record: 6-14
PSAC West Standings: Eighth place
Streak: Lost seven
Last Five Games: 0-5
Home Record: 3-8
Away Record: 5-8
Neutral Site Record: 1-1
Head Coach: Bobby McGraw | Third season at SRU (33-48)
 
SCOUTING THE ROCK
• Last time out: Slippery Rock lost a PSAC West contest to Gannon, 84-55, Feb. 18 at Morrow Field House. Dixon scored a team-high 13 points for SRU in the loss (Box Score).
 
• Slippery Rock's 33 wins over the last three seasons are the second most in a three-year span at Slippery Rock over the last 15 years; SRU won 36 games from 2003-06.
 
• Slippery Rock has committed just 55 turnovers over the last four games (13.7 per game). The only other PSAC teams to have committed less turnovers over the last four games have been Edinboro (42 / 10.5), California (43 / 10.8), Shippensburg (44 / 11.0) and East Stroudsburg (52 / 13.0).
 
• Slippery Rock is the only team in the PSAC with five players ranked in the top 45 in the conference in rebounds per game. Mallory Heinle leads SRU, and ranks 21st in the PSAC with 6.1 rebounds per game followed by Morgan Henderson (32nd / 5.5), Dixon (36th / 5.2), Brooke Hinderliter (42nd / 4.7) and Krista Pietropola (42nd / 4.7). SRU has not had five players average at least four rebounds per game for a season since 2001-02.
 
• Slippery Rock enters the Edinboro game leading the PSAC in free throw shooting percentage (.747) while also ranking third in rebounds per game (39.2) and fourth in free throws made (401).
 
• As the season comes to a close SRU is on the brink of finishing in the top 10 in single-season program history in several categories including offensive rebounds (third / 332) free throw shooting percentage (fourth / .747), defensive rebounds (fifth / 687), 3-pointers made (sixth / 138) and free throws made (seventh / 401).
 
• Dixon has scored at least 10 points in six of Slippery Rock's last eight games and is averaging 13.8 points per game over the run.   
 
• Carpenter leads the PSAC, and ranks 17th in the nation, in scoring at 19.1 points per game while also ranking fourth in assists per game (4.8) and 14th in steals per game (1.7). She also leads the entire PSAC with an 88.0 free throw shooting percentage. Carpenter has the chance to become the first Rock player to win a PSAC scoring title since Missy McKavish did so after averaging a league-best 20.7 points per game in 2002-03.
 
• Hinderliter has made a strong case for PSAC West Freshman of the Year honors. Hinderliter, a five-time PSAC West Freshman of the Week, has averaged 10.3 points, 4.7 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.7 steals per game in her first season at The Rock. In addition to ranking second among all PSAC freshmen in scoring, Hinderliter is also seventh in the PSAC overall with 68 offensive rebounds, which is the ninth most in school history.
 
• Hinderliter has started 25 games this season, the last player at SRU to start over 20 games as a freshman was Nikki Presto, who started 21 games in her first year at The Rock in 2006-07. 
 
• Hinderliter and Carpenter have combined to make 207 free throws this season. Only one other duo in Rock history has combined for more made free throws in a season, Heather Kearney and Lori Robinson made 271 free throws in 1997-98. Kearney and Robinson combined to play in 53 games that season compared to just 46 by Carpenter and Hinderliter.  
 
• Heinle is 69 points and 169 rebounds away from becoming just the 15th player in Rock history to record 500 career points and 500 career rebounds.
 
• Pietropola made two more 3-pointers against Gannon to give her 41 successful 3-pointers on the season, a team-high and the 17th most in the PSAC. PIetropola has made at least one 3-pointer in 25 of SRU's 26 games this season. If she makes one triple in each of SRU's last two games she will become the first player in the last decade at SRU to make a 3-pointer in 27 games in one season. 
 
• Henderson notched her fifth double-digit scoring performance of the season, and second in a row, with 10 points against Gannon. Henderson is averaging 6.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game as a sophomore.
 
• LeeAnn Gibson has registered at least five rebounds in four consecutive games. 12 of her 23 rebounds over the four-game stretch have come on the offensive glass. Gibson has 44 offensive rebounds this season, only Hinderliter (68) and Dixon (54) have more.
 
EDINBORO PRIMER
Record: 19-7
PSAC West Record: 15-5
PSAC West Standings: Tied for third place
Streak: Lost one
Last Five Games: 2-3
Home Record: 10-2
Away Record: 9-3
Neutral Site Record: 0-2
Head Coach: Stan Swank | 30th season at Edinboro (552-299)
 
SCOUTING THE FIGHTING SCOTS
• Last time out: Mercyhurst University broke a five-year losing streak to Edinboro with a 56-54 victory over the Fighting Scots on Feb. 18 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Katie Fischer scored a team-high 16 points for Edinboro (Box Score).
 
• With two games remaining in the regular season Edinboro is tied for third place in the league standings and two games in back of second place. The Fighting Scots were also ranked fifth in the first set of NCAA Division II Atlantic Region rankings released on Feb. 15.
 
• Edinboro ranks third in the PSAC in points per game allowed (58.4), second in turnovers forced per game (22.7), second in turnovers committed per game (13.9) and sixth in points per game (70.1).
 
• In addition to leading Edinboro in scoring (14.7 ppg), Fischer ranks fifth in the league in assists per game (4.6) and sixth in steals per game (2.1).
 
• Ciara Rosten ranks second for the Fighting Scots in scoring at 11.7 points per game and first in rebounding with 6.6 rebounds per game. Whitney Robertson is third on the team in scoring (11.1 per game) and second in rebounding (6.0). Rosten had 16 points, six rebounds and two blocks against The Rock earlier in the year.
 
• Edinboro won seven straight games over The Rock at McComb Fieldhouse.
 
UP NEXT
Slippery Rock concludes its 2016-17 season Saturday at Pitt-Johnstown. Tipoff from Johnstown, Pennsylvania is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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