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Women’s Basketball Set to Face Lewis, Indianapolis

Women's Basketball Set to Face Lewis, Indianapolis


LEBANON, Ill. – McKendree University women’s basketball continues its 2022-23 conference campaign this week hosting Lewis University on Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m. at Harry M. Statham  before heading to University of Indianapolis on Saturday for a 12 p.m. game. The Bearcats sport a 7-8 overall record and a 4-4 mark in the Great Lakes Valley Conference following an 81-67 home win over Maryville last Saturday afternoon. 

Heading into this week’s games, McKendree is sixth in the GLVC while Lewis sits tied at third with Missouri S&T, featuring a 6-3 GLVC record, and Indianapolis is 5-4, tying at fifth with Maryville. 

ABOUT THE BEARCATS

As a team, the Bearcats average 64.7 points per game, scoring their second-highest number of points for the single game in the season against Maryville with 81 points in the win. Offensively, the Bearcats are shooting 43.2 percent from the field, 29 percent from three, and 74 percent from the free throw line. At 74 percent, the Bearcats rank third in free throw percentage while sitting at fourth in field goal percentage. 

Defensively, McKendree ranks fifth in points allowed at 64.7 points per game while also holding opponents to netting only 28.8 percent of shot beyond the arc. With the 28.8 percent three-point defense, McKendree ranks second in the GLVC at just .6 percent behind Drury. Additionally, the Bearcats are fifth with 2.5 blocked shots per game and fourth in collecting defensive rebounds, snagging 25.4 per game. 

Through McKendree’s 15 games, junior forward Naomi McDaniel has topped the team’s individual averages, sitting now at 12.7 points per game. McDaniel added two more double-digit scoring games to her season last week against UMSL and Maryville, putting up nearly identical statistics including 11 points, eight rebounds, and one block. McDaniel is second in shooting percentage from the field for the Bearcats as well as fifth in the conference with her 53.8 field goal percentage. On the defensive end, McDaniel is second in the GLVC with 1.40 blocks per game and fourth in defensive rebounds, averaging 5.3 per game. 

Leading McKendree from the field is junior guard Erin Golden, shooting 56.3 percent. Golden also ranks in the top five for free throw percentage in the GLVC, netting a team-high 88 percent of shots from the foul stripe following a perfect 5-for-5 performance against Maryville. 

Additionally, sophomore guard Clare Breden averages double figures, netting 10.1 points per game for the…

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