University of New Hampshire Athletics
Thursday, November 15
Providence, R.I.
7 PM
University of New Hampshire
at
Brown
Ashley Storey (Photo by Gil Talbot)
Photo by: Gil Talbot
Wildcats Travel to Brown Thursday (7 PM, ESPN+)
11/14/2018 4:15:00 PM | Women's Basketball
‘Cats return to the Northeast for their final game of a three-game road trip.
DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team plays their third game of the season on Thursday evening as they face the Brown Bears in Providence, R.I. The game will be available to stream on ESPN+ at 7 P.M.
The Wildcats return home to play their first game of the season on Sunday, November 18 at 1 P.M. as New Hampshire hosts Sacred Heart in Lundholm Gymnasium. For tickets, call (603) 862-4000 or visit UNHWildcats.com
UNH STORYLINES
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Wildcats opened the season with a pair of losses on a Midwestern swing. They fell at the University of Minnesota, 70-47, on Friday and at North Dakota State, 56-51 on Sunday afternoon.
Coach Maureen Magarity, who is in her ninth season as head coach, has led UNH to its best two-year run in the history of the program the last two seasons.
UNH went 19-12 overall and 9-7 in America East least season, following up on 26-6 and 15-1 marks in 2016-17. The Wildcats advanced to the America East semifinals each season. The team's 45 victories over the last two years combined is the best two-year win total in school history.
Junior forward Ashley Storey and senior Alli Gribbin, the lone senior on the team, are the Wildcat captains.
The Wildcats – with seven freshmen among the 13 players on the roster - play their home opener against Sacred Heart on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 1 p.m.
SCOUTING BROWN
- Brown University is 1-2 after a win against Central Connecticut and two straight losses at Bryant and Boston University.
-- The Bears are 1-0 at home so far.
- They beat Central Connecticut 68-63 in their season opener.
- They are now on a two-game losing streak.
- Brown averages 58.7 points per game, a .312 field goal percentage, and 38.7 rebounds per game.
- Brown's opponents are averaging 70 points per game, a .399 field goal percentage, and 51 rebounds a game.
- The leading scorer so far has been senior Shayna Mehta.
- She had 23 points in a 72-51 loss at BU on Monday.
- She has 51 points so far (17 per game) and also leads the team in total rebounds with 23 (7.7 per game). Mehta also leads the team with eight assists.
- Not far behind is Justine Gaziano, who has 47 points (15.7 per game) and 18 total rebounds (6.0 per game) which is good for second on the team in both categories.
- Shayna Mehta has scored 1,290 career points and has exactly 200 three-point field goals.
- Olivia Healy, who played the last two seasons at UNH as a grad student, is the coordinator of basketball operations at Brown.
- She made second-team All America East last season and third team the year before.
HOME COOKING
Only two of UNH's eight games in November are at home. In contrast, the Wildcats play four of their five December games in Lundholm Gymnasium.
The November home games are against Sacred Heart on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 1 p.m. and against Bryant University on Sunday, Nov. 25 at 1 p.m.
UNH plays home games against the University of New England on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m.; against Holy Cross on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 1 p.m.; against Dartmouth on Friday, Dec. 21 at 11 a.m. and against Princeton on Saturday, Dec. 29 at 1 p.m.
The Wildcats open the America East portion of the schedule with a game at Maine on Wednesday, Jan. 2.
They play their first home league game against play Binghamton on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 1 p.m.
Tickets for all home games are available by calling 603-862-4000 or at www.unhwildcats.com.
HOW YOUNG IS YOUNG?
So just how young are these Wildcats?
UNH has one senior on the roster with three juniors, two sophomores and seven freshmen.
The average age of the Wildcats on opening day, Nov. 9, is 19 years, eight months and 12 days.
FOR STARTERS
Juniors Ashley Storey and Caroline Soucy, sophomores Maggie Ahearn and Amanda Torres and freshman Kari Brekke started each of the first two games of the season for the Wildcats.
The five starters had a total of 26 starters as Wildcats going into the season. Storey started 17 games in the 2015-16 season and Torres started nine games last season.
By contrast, UNH's five starters in its final game last March had a total of 273 starts between them.
THE FRONTCOURT
Junior Ashley Storey, 6-foot-3, returns to lead the team in the frontcourt. Storey started 17 games her freshman year and was named to the America East All Rookie team after averaging 5.4 points and 3.4 rebounds She averaged 4.9 points and 4 rebounds as a sophomore before missing last season.
"We expect a lot from Ashley," Magarity said. "She's come back much stronger and on the court she hasn't missed a beat. We're going to rely on her to rebound and score. She can score in a lot of different ways and can run the floor very well for a big kid."
Sophomore Maggie Ahearn, 6-foot-2, sat out last season after transferring to UNH from Providence College. She played five games as a freshman at Providence.
Storey and Ahearn are joined up front by three freshmen: 6-foot Faith Bonett, 6-foot-2 Ivy Gogolin and 6-foot-3 Mary Foster.
THE BACKCOURT
Sophomore Amanda Torres, 5-foot-7, is the lone returning starter from last season.
"Amanda had a great freshmen year and gained a lot of valuable experience when she ended up as the starting point guard," Magarity said. "She needs to step up even more with her leadership this year. She pushes the ball in transition and gets the team going. She's very aggressive off the bounce and her first step is really quick and her outside shooting continues to improve."
Alli Gribbin, a 5-foot-11 senior captain, junior Caroline Soucy, 5-foot-9, and junior Sarah Clement, 5-foot-8, are the upper classmen in the backcourt.
The freshmen guards are 5-foot-6 Kari Brekke, 5-foot-9 Kali Grimm, 5-foot-10 Mariah Gonzalez and 5-foot-5 Sarah Serbascewicz.
THE COACH
Maureen Magarity, in her ninth year as head coach, has led UNH to winning seasons in each of the last two and four of the last five seasons.
She guided the team to a record-smashing mark of 26-6 overall and 15-1 in America East in 2016-17. The 26 wins were three more than the Wildcats had ever won in a season and the league record was the team's best ever and earned the school's first America East women's basketball regular season championship.
Along the way, the team set a school record with 13 consecutive wins.
UNH went 19-12 overall and 9-7 in the league last year. The 45-18 overall record over the last two seasons was the top mark for any two-year stretch in program history.
Magarity has a 130-114 record through her eight seasons and stands fourth in all-time wins at UNH. She is three wins out of the third spot and six out of the No. 2 spot on the list.
FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING
UNH played Minnesota and North Dakota State for the first time to open the season.
The Wildcats played in front of a sold-out crowd of 14,625 at Minnesota as the Golden Gophers celebrated the return of former school and WNBA standout Lindsay Whalen as head coach.
The opening weekend was not the first time UNH teams had squared off with the Golden Gophers and North Dakota State Bison.
Among the encounters:
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The Wildcats return home to play their first game of the season on Sunday, November 18 at 1 P.M. as New Hampshire hosts Sacred Heart in Lundholm Gymnasium. For tickets, call (603) 862-4000 or visit UNHWildcats.com
UNH STORYLINES
- Ashley Storey, who missed all of last season rehabilitating from surgery, leads the 'Cats in scoring at 11.5 points a game.
- Kari Brekke hit four three-pointers in her UNH debut against Minnesota
- Coach Maureen Magarity is in her ninth season as UNH head coach.
- Sarah Behn, a 1993 graduate of Boston College, is in her fifth season as coach at Brown.
- Brown returns seven of its top eight scores from a year ago.
- The Wildcats have won their last two games against Brown.
- The most recent was a 60-57 win in Lundholm Gymnasium on Nov. 22, 2014
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Wildcats opened the season with a pair of losses on a Midwestern swing. They fell at the University of Minnesota, 70-47, on Friday and at North Dakota State, 56-51 on Sunday afternoon.
Coach Maureen Magarity, who is in her ninth season as head coach, has led UNH to its best two-year run in the history of the program the last two seasons.
UNH went 19-12 overall and 9-7 in America East least season, following up on 26-6 and 15-1 marks in 2016-17. The Wildcats advanced to the America East semifinals each season. The team's 45 victories over the last two years combined is the best two-year win total in school history.
Junior forward Ashley Storey and senior Alli Gribbin, the lone senior on the team, are the Wildcat captains.
The Wildcats – with seven freshmen among the 13 players on the roster - play their home opener against Sacred Heart on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 1 p.m.
SCOUTING BROWN
- Brown University is 1-2 after a win against Central Connecticut and two straight losses at Bryant and Boston University.
-- The Bears are 1-0 at home so far.
- They beat Central Connecticut 68-63 in their season opener.
- They are now on a two-game losing streak.
- Brown averages 58.7 points per game, a .312 field goal percentage, and 38.7 rebounds per game.
- Brown's opponents are averaging 70 points per game, a .399 field goal percentage, and 51 rebounds a game.
- The leading scorer so far has been senior Shayna Mehta.
- She had 23 points in a 72-51 loss at BU on Monday.
- She has 51 points so far (17 per game) and also leads the team in total rebounds with 23 (7.7 per game). Mehta also leads the team with eight assists.
- Not far behind is Justine Gaziano, who has 47 points (15.7 per game) and 18 total rebounds (6.0 per game) which is good for second on the team in both categories.
- Shayna Mehta has scored 1,290 career points and has exactly 200 three-point field goals.
- Olivia Healy, who played the last two seasons at UNH as a grad student, is the coordinator of basketball operations at Brown.
- She made second-team All America East last season and third team the year before.
HOME COOKING
Only two of UNH's eight games in November are at home. In contrast, the Wildcats play four of their five December games in Lundholm Gymnasium.
The November home games are against Sacred Heart on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 1 p.m. and against Bryant University on Sunday, Nov. 25 at 1 p.m.
UNH plays home games against the University of New England on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m.; against Holy Cross on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 1 p.m.; against Dartmouth on Friday, Dec. 21 at 11 a.m. and against Princeton on Saturday, Dec. 29 at 1 p.m.
The Wildcats open the America East portion of the schedule with a game at Maine on Wednesday, Jan. 2.
They play their first home league game against play Binghamton on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 1 p.m.
Tickets for all home games are available by calling 603-862-4000 or at www.unhwildcats.com.
HOW YOUNG IS YOUNG?
So just how young are these Wildcats?
UNH has one senior on the roster with three juniors, two sophomores and seven freshmen.
The average age of the Wildcats on opening day, Nov. 9, is 19 years, eight months and 12 days.
FOR STARTERS
Juniors Ashley Storey and Caroline Soucy, sophomores Maggie Ahearn and Amanda Torres and freshman Kari Brekke started each of the first two games of the season for the Wildcats.
The five starters had a total of 26 starters as Wildcats going into the season. Storey started 17 games in the 2015-16 season and Torres started nine games last season.
By contrast, UNH's five starters in its final game last March had a total of 273 starts between them.
THE FRONTCOURT
Junior Ashley Storey, 6-foot-3, returns to lead the team in the frontcourt. Storey started 17 games her freshman year and was named to the America East All Rookie team after averaging 5.4 points and 3.4 rebounds She averaged 4.9 points and 4 rebounds as a sophomore before missing last season.
"We expect a lot from Ashley," Magarity said. "She's come back much stronger and on the court she hasn't missed a beat. We're going to rely on her to rebound and score. She can score in a lot of different ways and can run the floor very well for a big kid."
Sophomore Maggie Ahearn, 6-foot-2, sat out last season after transferring to UNH from Providence College. She played five games as a freshman at Providence.
Storey and Ahearn are joined up front by three freshmen: 6-foot Faith Bonett, 6-foot-2 Ivy Gogolin and 6-foot-3 Mary Foster.
THE BACKCOURT
Sophomore Amanda Torres, 5-foot-7, is the lone returning starter from last season.
"Amanda had a great freshmen year and gained a lot of valuable experience when she ended up as the starting point guard," Magarity said. "She needs to step up even more with her leadership this year. She pushes the ball in transition and gets the team going. She's very aggressive off the bounce and her first step is really quick and her outside shooting continues to improve."
Alli Gribbin, a 5-foot-11 senior captain, junior Caroline Soucy, 5-foot-9, and junior Sarah Clement, 5-foot-8, are the upper classmen in the backcourt.
The freshmen guards are 5-foot-6 Kari Brekke, 5-foot-9 Kali Grimm, 5-foot-10 Mariah Gonzalez and 5-foot-5 Sarah Serbascewicz.
THE COACH
Maureen Magarity, in her ninth year as head coach, has led UNH to winning seasons in each of the last two and four of the last five seasons.
She guided the team to a record-smashing mark of 26-6 overall and 15-1 in America East in 2016-17. The 26 wins were three more than the Wildcats had ever won in a season and the league record was the team's best ever and earned the school's first America East women's basketball regular season championship.
Along the way, the team set a school record with 13 consecutive wins.
UNH went 19-12 overall and 9-7 in the league last year. The 45-18 overall record over the last two seasons was the top mark for any two-year stretch in program history.
Magarity has a 130-114 record through her eight seasons and stands fourth in all-time wins at UNH. She is three wins out of the third spot and six out of the No. 2 spot on the list.
FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING
UNH played Minnesota and North Dakota State for the first time to open the season.
The Wildcats played in front of a sold-out crowd of 14,625 at Minnesota as the Golden Gophers celebrated the return of former school and WNBA standout Lindsay Whalen as head coach.
The opening weekend was not the first time UNH teams had squared off with the Golden Gophers and North Dakota State Bison.
Among the encounters:
- The UNH women's hockey team beat Minnesota, 4-1, in the semifinals of the American Women's College Hockey Alliance tournament in 1998.
- The Wildcats went on to win the AWCHA title, before the NCAA sponsored the event, with a 4-1 win over Brown.
- The Minnesota men's hockey team beat UNH, 5-1, in the NCAA championship game in 2003 in Buffalo.
- The UNH football team fell at North Dakota State in the semifinals of the NCAA Division I FCS tournament on Dec. 20, 2013.
- The Bison went on to win the national championship. They have won six of the last seven FCS national titles.
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