Ladies’s Basketball Performs Again-to-Again House Video games Towards Jags and Penguins

ROCHESTER, Mich. – The Golden Grizzlies gear up for a two-game residence stand this week, internet hosting IU Indy and Youngstown State as they enter the ultimate month of the common season.

Oakland is enjoying a few of its greatest basketball of the season, having received three of its final 4 video games, most not too long ago securing an 82-71 win over Milwaukee. In that sport, Oakland poured within the scoring with a season-high 12 made three-pointers and scored 80 factors for the second time in three video games.

Oakland now has 5 gamers averaging 9 or extra factors per sport, cementing itself not solely as one of many convention’s high offensive squads, but in addition as a workforce with depth and a number of areas of contribution.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28 vs. IU INDY | 6:30 PM | ESPN+

The Golden Grizzlies and the Jags (8-11, 4-6 HL) face off for the primary time this season, assembly for the primary time since final 12 months’s Horizon League Championship first-round matchup. In that contest, Oakland traveled to Indianapolis and bounced the Jags from postseason rivalry with a 62-56 win.

Oakland is averaging slightly below 70 factors per sport whereas rating among the many league leaders in rebounds per contest (35.8 rpg), a energy that has fueled second-chance alternatives and fast-break scoring. The Golden Grizzlies have additionally emphasised defensive strain, forcing turnovers at a excessive price and holding opponents beneath their season scoring averages in current outings.

A robust menace from deep, taking pictures over .300 from behind the arc, Oakland is ready up for one more high-scoring affair in opposition to an IU Indy squad that’s the worst three-point taking pictures workforce within the league, with a three-point share of .263.

Where IU Indy thrives is attending to the free-throw line, rating third within the convention in free-throw makes an attempt (436).

After a tough begin to the season, IU Indy has received back-to-back video games, incomes victories over Youngstown State and Northern Kentucky in its earlier two contests. While robust at residence with a 7-3 document, the Jags wrestle away from Indianapolis, posting a 1-8 highway mark.

Guard Neveah Foster leads the cost for the Jags, averaging 12.3 factors per sport, together with 1.4 steals and 4.6 rebounds per sport.

SATURDAY, JAN. 31 vs. YOUNGSTOWN STATE | 2 PM | ESPN+

The Penguins (14-7, 7-4 HL) and the Golden Grizzlies play their head-to-head finale of the common season to start out the weekend.

Coming into the week, YSU sits in third place within the Horizon League, only a half sport behind Robert Morris for the No. 2 spot.

An elite defensive unit, YSU leads the convention in scoring protection, permitting simply 57.3 factors per sport, and three-point protection, holding opponents to a .264 taking pictures share from deep.

The Penguins have hit a tough patch as of late. Despite beating Cleveland State 61-38 of their final outing, YSU has misplaced two of its final three video games, scoring fewer than 53 factors in each losses.

Casey Santoro (12.6 ppg) leads YSU in scoring, adopted intently by Sarah Baker (11.1 ppg). Sophia Gregory serves because the workforce’s Swiss Army knife, averaging 8.6 factors and eight.0 rebounds per sport.

The Golden Grizzlies look to maintain the ball rolling and their momentum flowing at residence.