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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University women's basketball team will take to the road for a final time in the 2019-20 regular season when it travels to Edinboro University 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
 
GAME 27 DETAILS
Opponent: Edinboro University
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 26 – 5:30 p.m.
Location: McComb Fieldhouse  |  Edinboro, Pa.
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Live Stats: Link
In-game Updates: Twitter (@Rock_Athletics)
All-Time Series: Edinboro leads 49-43
Last Played: Jan. 25, 2020 (Edinboro won 88-59 at SRU)
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
The Fighting Scots have won six straight games against The Rock to improve their lead in the all-time series to 49-43. Playing at Edinboro has proven troublesome for SRU of late as The Rock's last win on the Fighting Scots' home floor came during the 2008-09 season.
 
In seven career games against Edinboro, Brooke Hinderliter has averaged 13 points, 6.3 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.1 steals per contest. Madison Johnson has gone for 8.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.3 steals over four games against the Fighting Scots while Karington Ketterer has blocked three shots in three games versus EU. 
 
SLIPPERY ROCK PRIMER
Overall Record: 8-18
PSAC Record: 6-14
PSAC West Standings: Eighth
Home Record: 4-6
Away Record: 4-11
Neutral Site Record: 0-1
Streak: L1
Last Five Games: 3-2
Head Coach: Bobby McGraw l Sixth Season (65-100)
 
SCOUTING THE ROCK
Last Time Out: Slippery Rock lost on the road at Gannon, 87-50, while Edinboro picked up a 75-59 victory at home against Mercyhurst. Both games were played on Feb. 22.
 
• Slippery Rock enters Wednesday's game ranked second in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, and 18th in the nation, in free throws made (419). SRU also ranks fourth in the PSAC in turnovers per game (14.9), fifth in field goal percentage defense (.395), sixth in rebounding (39.7 rpg) and 13th in scoring (65.0 ppg).
 
• Wednesday's game will feature two of the top offensive threats in the PSAC West in Hinderliter and Edinboro's Michaela Barnes. Hinderliter, the PSAC's fifth leading scorer, averages 19.3 points, 5.9 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.3 steals per game. Barnes meanwhile is the PSAC's leading scorer at 25.5 points per game.
 
• Johnson is second for The Rock in scoring at 13.8 points per game to go with 5.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists per contest. Johnson's 29 made 3-pointers this year is a Slippery Rock best and a personal career-high.
 
• Johnson has also set career-highs this season in minutes played (818), free throws made (77), free throw shooting percentage (.819), rebounds (139) and points scored (360).
 
• Point guard Daeja Quick scores 10.7 points per game all the while distributing a Rock-best 3.1 assists per game and making 1.3 steals per game defensively.
 
• The Rock's top two post players are Ketterer and LeeAnn Gibson. Gibson ranks fourth in the PSAC in rebounding with 8.2 rebounds per game while scoring 9.1 points per game. Ketterer is The Rock's top shot-blocking threat as the senior has collected 31 rejections this year; the ninth most in the PSAC.
 
• Ketterer now sits fifth in Slippery Rock single-season history for blocks in a year with 31
 
A LOOK AT THE ROCK'S PLAYOFF HOPES
The top six teams in the PSAC West standings at the conclusion of the regular season qualify for the conference tournament and despite its loss at Gannon over the weekend Slippery Rock still remains firmly in the hunt to earn a PSAC Tournament berth entering the final week of the regular season.
 
With a 6-14 league record, Slippery Rock finds itself just one game behind of moving into a three-way tie with Mercyhurst  (7-13) and Seton Hill (7-13) for sixth place. The race for the final PSAC Tournament spot in the Western Division appears to be down to Slippery Rock and Mercyhurst as Seton Hill has now lost 11 straight league games.
 
If Seton Hill downward trend continues and it loses its final two games of the regular season against Pitt-Johnstown (10-10) and Edinboro (13-7) combined with a Mercyhurst loss to Cal U on Wednesday a winner-take-all scenario would exist in the regular-season finale between Slippery Rock and Mercyhurst Saturday at Morrow Field House regardless of the outcome of The Rock's game against Edinboro.
 
However, if either Seton Hill or Mercyhurst were to win its respective games on Wednesday Slippery Rock would have to beat Edinboro to have any chance at all of qualifying for the PSAC Tournament.
 
HINDERLITER BECOMES SRU'S No. 2 SCORER ALL-TIME
The highlight of The Rock's loss at Gannon was Hinderliter scoring a game-high 21 points and in the process passing Kory Fielitz (1,694 points / 1990-94) for second place in Slippery Rock history for points scored in a career with 1,702.
 
The only other player in program history to have scored more points in a career than Hinderliter is Heather Kearney, who scored 1,760 points over her four-year career at The Rock from 1995 to 1999.
 
For Hinderliter to break Kearney's school record she would need to score 59 points over Slippery Rock's final two games as well as any possible additional PSAC Tournament contests.
 
GAME No. 100 ON DECK FOR GIBSON
The Edinboro game will mark the 100th collegiate contest played in Gibson's career. When she takes the court against the Fighting Scots Gibson will become one of just 26 players in program history to have played in 100 games at The Rock.
 
Gibson has already set career-highs this season in minutes played (697), free throws made (61), offensive rebounds (56), total rebounds (197), steals (15) and points (219).
 
LAST MEETING vs. EDINBORO
A slow start proved too much to overcome for Slippery Rock in an 88-59 loss at home to Edinboro on Jan. 25. The Fighting Scots jumped out to a 25-6 first-quarter lead on the way to their 29-point win.
 
Quick led The Rock in the January meeting against Edinboro with team-highs of 13 points and three assists in addition to three rebounds and one steal. Fellow starters Gibson and Johnson added eight points apiece as did the reserve duo of Anyah Curd and Brittany Andrews.
 
JOHNSON 5th ALL-TIME AMONG TRANSFER SCORERS
Johnson, who is one of just 26 players in program history to score 800 points in a career, will head into the Edinboro contest ranked fifth in program history for most points scored in a career at The Rock by players who began their college careers at a different school.
 
Johnson, who played at St. Francis to start her collegiate career, has accounted for 850 points in 81 games at SRU following an eight-point showing against Gannon. She is six points away from passing Lexi Carpenter on the list of top transfer scorers in program history.
 
QUICK STAYS EIGHTH IN ASSIST-TURNOVER RATIO, CRACK SRU'S ALL-TIME LEDGER
Following a four-assist, four-turnover outing against Gannon, Quick remained tied for eighth in the PSAC in assist-turnover ratio at 1.4 for a third consecutive week.
 
Quick, has accounted for 80 of The Rock's 212 assists this season (37.7 percent). Just a junior, Quick already ranks 25th in program history for assists in a career with 164.
 
ROCK UP TO SIXTH IN SINGLE-SEASON FREE THROWS
Slippery Rock, which was a stellar 17-of-22 from the foul line against Gannon, has now made 419 free throws this season; the sixth highest single-season total in program history.
 
SRU averages 16.1 made free throws per game and is on pace to end the season with 451 made foul shots, which would rank second in program history behind the 1990-91 Rock team (484) for the most free throws made in a single-season at Slippery Rock.
 
HINDERLITER NINTH IN PSAC HISTORY FOR MADE FT'S
Hinderliter's 485 made free throws in career are not only a program record, they are also the ninth-highest total of made foul shots by any player in PSAC history and the fifth most among all active player in NCAA Division II.
 
This season, Hinderliter currently ranks third in the PSAC, fourth in Division II and sixth in all of the NCAA regardless of division with 163 made foul shots.
 
STARTERS LOGGING MEGA MINUTES
Slippery Rock's starting five of Hinderliter (32.7), Johnson (31.5), Quick (29.8), Ketterer (30.0) and GIbson (29.0) have cobmined to average 153 of The Rock's possible 200 minutes played per game this season.
 
The last Slippery Rock starting unit that combined to average more minutes per game came in 2013-14 when Erica Aiello (32.4), D'Asia Chambers (31.7), Aidan Geise (30.6), Jazmyne Frost (30.3) and Megan Hardiman (29.6) came together to average 154.6 minutes played per game.
 
THE ROCK OFF THE BENCH
When members of Slippery Rock's starting five are not on the floor head coach Bobby McGraw has gone with a four-player reserve unit for much of the season in Anyah Curd (18 blocks, 3.4 rpg), Olivia Fusaro (2.0 ppg), Brittany Andrews (2.0 ppg, 1.6 rpg) and Kasch Harris (1.2 ppg, 10.4 mpg).
 
EDINBORO PRIMER
Overall Record: 15-9
PSAC Record: 13-7
PSAC West Standings: Third
Home Record: 9-3
Away Record: 6-6
Neutral Site Record: 0-0
Streak: W1
Last Five Games: 3-2
Head Coach: Callie Wheeler l Second Season (35-18)
 
SCOUTING THE FIGHTING SCOTS
• Edinboro has already clinched a PSAC Tournament berth, but is still fighting for seeding as the Fighting Scots enter Wednesday's game tied with Cal U for third place in the PSAC West standings.
 
• As a team, the Fighting Scots ranks second in the PSAC in scoring margin (+9.4), second in free throw shooting percentage (.766), second in 3-point percentage defense (.276), third in scoring (74.3), third in 3-pointers made (186), fourth in 3-point shooting percentage (.338), fourth in rebounds per game (40.5) and fifth in rebounding margin (+5.3).
 
• One of the top players in the PSAC, Barnes has paced Edinboro as a senior with per game averages of 25.5 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.2 steals while shooting 46.9 percent from the floor. Barnes scored 25 points in the first meeting between SRU and Edinboro this season.
 
• Bridgette Shaffer and Rana Elhusseini round out Edinboro's top offensive threats at 13.9 and 10.0 points per game, respectively.
 
• Edinboro also features the PSAC's top rebounder in Cheniva Sharpe, who averages 10.0 rebounds per game. Sharpe had a double-double of 12 points and 10 rebounds against The Rock earlier in the season.
 
UP NEXT
Slippery Rock wraps up its 2019-20 regular season when it hosts Mercyhurst 1 p.m. Saturday at Morrow Field House.
 


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