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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University women's basketball team will look to snap its two-game losing streak with a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division victory 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Clarion University.

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Slippery Rock (7-7, 5-4) vs. Clarion (7-8, 2-7)
Date and Time	Wednesday, Jan. 10 - 5:30 p.m.
Location	Clarion, Pa. – Tippin Gym
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In-Game Updates	Twitter (@Rock_Athletics)
All-Time Series	Tied 39-39
Last Played	2/15/17 (Clarion won 70-62 at CU)

SERIES HISTORY vs. CLARION
Slippery Rock has won four of its last six games against Clarion to move into a 39-39 tie with the Golden Eagles in the all-time series. CU earned a series sweep of The Rock last season with a pair of close victories, 85-83 and 70-62.
 
SLIPPERY ROCK PRIMER
Overall Record: 7-7
PSAC West Record: 5-4
PSAC West Standings: Fifth
Home Record: 4-1
Away Record: 3-4
Neutral Court Record: 0-1
Streak: Lost two
Last Five Games: 2-3
Head Coach: Bobby McGraw | Fourth season at SRU (40-57)
 
SCOUTING THE ROCK
• LAST TIME OUT – Slippery Rock lost at No. 3 Indiana (Pa.), 76-60, in a road PSAC West contest on Jan. 8 (Box Score).
 
• A win against Clarion would give Slippery Rock a winning record through its first 15 games of the season for just the second time in the last 16 years; SRU also started the year 8-7 in 2003-04.
 
• While Slippery Rock still has over half of its conference schedule to play this season, a win against Clarion would continue to keep The Rock on pace to qualify for the PSAC Tournament for the first time since the 2014-15 season. Slippery Rock will enter Wednesday's game ranked fifth in the PSAC West standings. The top six teams in both the PSAC West and the PSAC East at the end of the regular season qualify for the conference tournament.
 
• A win against Clarion would also give Slippery Rock six conference victories in 2017-18 and mark a fourth straight year in which SRU has earned at least six league wins. Slippery Rock has not had at least six PSAC wins in four consecutive seasons since doing so in 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01 and 2001-02.
 
• Slippery Rock is a perfect 6-0 when leading at halftime and 4-1 when committing fewer turnover than its opponents in 2017-18.
 
• Slippery Rock remained the second best rebounding team in the PSAC with 42.2 rebounds per game after winning the battle of the boards against nationally ranked Indiana 45-41.
 
• Included in the 45 rebounds were a season-best 22 offensive rebounds. The 22 offensive rebounds were the most by a Rock team since grabbing 24 rebounds on offense against Lock Haven on Feb. 13, 2013 (127 games). The Rock leads the PSAC in offensive rebounding at 15.2 per contest.
 
• Slippery Rock's rebounding dominance have come by way of a group effort in which a PSAC-best six players average at least 4.7 rebounds per game. Brooke Hinderliter leads the way with 6.5 rebounds per game followed by Morgan Henderson (5.6), Mallory Heinle (5.2), Krista Pietropola (5.1), Madison Johnson (4.9) and LeeAnn Gibson (4.7).
 
• The Rock held Indiana to a 42.0 field goal percentage, which was the Crimson Hawks' third lowest field goal percentage of the season. SRU currently ranks fifth in the PSAC in opponent field goal percentage (.369).
 
• Skyla O'Connor came off the bench to produce a career-high eight points to go with a season-best matching five rebounds against Indiana. O'Connor, who is just a freshman, has accounted for 20 of her 48 points on the season in the last three games. She is shooting 8-for-14 (.571) from the field with per game averages of 6.7 points, 2.0 rebounds, 1.1 steals and 1.0 blocks over that stretch.
 
• Despite a relatively modest performance against Indiana, Hinderliter is still averaging a healthy 15.2 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.0 steals this season while shooting 45.2 percent from the field and 88.9 percent from the foul line. She ranks second in the PSAC in free throw shooting and 10th in field goal percentage.
 
• Henderson has scored at least 10 points and pulled down a minimum of five rebounds in six of The Rock's last eight games to increase her season averages to 8.5 points and 5.6 rebounds a contest while also shooting 50.6 percent from the field overall.
 
• In her first season at The Rock, Johnson has established herself as the team's second leading scorer with 10.4 points per game.
 
• Pietropola has averaged 6.3 rebounds per game in SRU's last three contests.
 
• Sierra Fordham made her first start of the season against Indiana, playing 31 minutes and scoring five points.
 
• Slippery Rock averages 13.9 second chance points per game while holding its opponents to just 9.6 second chance points ( 4.3).
 
• In four career games against Clarion, Henderson has averaged 7.8 points and 5.0 rebounds per contest. As a freshman a year ago, Hinderliter averaged 17.5 points and 7.5 rebounds in two games against Clarion.
 
• Heinle collected three offensive rebounds against Indiana to improve her career total to 132, the seventh most in Rock history. She needs nine more to move into a tie for sixth place in career offensive rebounds at The Rock with D'Asia Chambers (2011-15).
 
NEXT FIVE GAMES
Jan. 13 (1 p.m.) vs. Mansfield
Jan. 17 (5:30 p.m.) at Pitt-Johnstown
Jan. 20 (1 p.m.) vs. Edinboro
Jan. 24 (5:30 p.m.) vs. Gannon
Jan. 27 (1 p.m.) vs. California (Pa.)
 
CLARION PRIMER
Overall Record: 7-8
PSAC West Record: 2-7
PSAC West Standings: Ninth
Home Record: 4-3
Away Record: 2-5
Neutral Court Record: 1-0
Streak: Lost three
Last Five Games: 2-3
Head Coach: Jana Ashley  |  Fourth season at Clarion (33-66)
 
SCOUTING THE GOLDEN EAGLES
• Clarion will also be looking to end a losing streak as the Golden Eagles have lost three straight games including a 79-62 defeat at Mercyhurst on Monday.
 
• Amesha Harden-Pullium leads three Clarion players in double figures with 16.6 points per game. Jordan Bekelja and Tracy Wiehe average 10.9 and 10.2 points per game as well. Wiehe is also CU's leading rebounder at 7.5 boards per game.
 
• Bekelja averaged 14.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists in two games against The Rock last year. Harden-Pullium scored 20 points in the SRU-Clarion contest at Morrow Field House a season ago, but was limited to just three points in the second meeting of the season at CU.
 
• As a team, Clarion ranks second in the league in 3-pointers made (119), sixth in points per game allowed (63.2) and ninth in scoring (65.9).
 
• Clarion has a 0.0 rebounding margin and a 0.0 scoring margin, a statistical rarity for 15 games into the season.
 
UP NEXT
Slippery Rock returns home to host Mansfield University in a PSAC crossover contest. Tipoff from Morrow Field House is scheduled for 1 p.m.


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