University of New Hampshire Athletics
Friday, November 30
Tampa, Fla.
6 PM
University of New Hampshire
at
South Florida
(Photo by Matt Woolverton)
Photo by: Matt Woolverton
‘Cats Face Bulls Friday Night in Tampa (6 P.M.)
11/29/2018 5:02:00 PM | Women's Basketball
A quick turnaround for the Wildcats coming off a Wednesday night game at B.U.
DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team travels to Tampa, Florida for a Friday night matchup with the University of South Florida.
Coming off a loss to Boston University on Wednesday night, the Wildcats play just two days later against the Bulls. Tip off against USF is at 6 P.M.
UNH STORYLINES
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ashley Storey scored 12 points and Kari Brekke added 10 to lead the Wildcats in a loss at Boston University on Wednesday night.
UNH went into the BU game off its first win of the season, a 79-74 triumph over Bryant on Sunday in Lundholm Gymnasium.
Storey had 20 points to lead five players in double figures against Bryant. Brekke had 16 points, Maggie Ahearn 14, Amanda Torres 13 and Soucy 10 against Bryant.
The Bryant game was the first time UNH had five players in double figures in a game since a 71-43 win over Sacred Heart on Dec. 18, 2016. Storey with 12 points and Soucy with 10 were among the players in double figures that night. The others were Carlie Pogue with 16, Kat Fogarty with 15 and Aliza Simpson with 10.
Alli Gribbin blocked five shots against Bryant. Pogue was the last Wildcat to block five shots in a game. She did it in a 58-51 win over UMass Lowell on Jan. 14, 2016.
Storey leads the team in scoring (16.9 points per game) and rebounding (6.4). Brekke averages 10 points a game and Ahearn is at 9.2. Amanda Torres averages 7.7 points per game and Caroline Soucy is at 7.6.
Storey ranks second in America East in scoring, is third in field goal percentage (49-93 for 52.7 percent) and sixth in free throw percentage (19-for-25 for 76 percent).
The Wildcats are second in the league in free throw percentage at 76.1 percent (70-for-92). They are scoring an average of 57.1 points a game and allowing 68 per game.
Maureen Magarity 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 two years combined were the best two-year win total in school history.
Storey and senior Alli Gribbin, the lone senior on the team, are the Wildcat captains.
SCOUTING SOUTH FLORIDA
- The Bulls are 5-2.
- They beat UCLA, 60-56, in their last game.
- This is their first game since playing three in three days in the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- They lost their first two games in the tournament to Kentucky, 85-63, and North Carolina, 71-69.
- South Florida won its first four games of the season, including wins over Ohio State, 71-47, and Albany, 74-37.
- The Bulls have yet to lose a home game (3-0).
- Senior Laura Ferreira averages 18.3 points and 4.6 rebounds a game.
- Freshman Sydni Harvey averages 14.6 points and 2.7 rebounds.
- Beatrice Jordao, a 6-foot-3 freshman, averages 11.9 points and 6.4 rebounds.
- Alyssa Rader averages 6.1 points and 7.9 rebounds a game.
- The Bulls average 73.1 points per game and their opponents average 57.9.
- Last year they lost in the championship of the American Athletic Conference to UConn
- They lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
- The Bulls have qualified for the NCAAs each of the last four seasons.
- They finished 26-8 overall and 13-3 in the AAC last season.
- South Florida has had six straight 20-win seasons under coach Jose Fernandes.
- UNH is 0-2 against the Bulls.
- Amy Simpson scored 23 points in a 72-56 loss to South Florida the last time the teams met on Nov. 17, 2007.
HOME COOKING
Only two of UNH's eight games in November were at home. In contrast, the Wildcats play four of their five December games in Lundholm Gymnasium.
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 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.
NEXT UP
Friday's game is the first of a doubleheader at the Yuengling Center. The South Florida men play Colgate in the nightcap at 8:30.
The Wildcats return to Lundholm Gymnasium for games against the University of New England on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. and Holy Cross on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 1 p.m.
JACKIE MAC IS BACK
Acclaimed author and former UNH basketball captain Jackie MacMullan, '82, will be signing copies of her latest book, "Basketball: A Love Story" before the Holy Cross game.
The book was inspired by the ESPN series of the same name and is in the form of an oral history and includes interviews with well over 100 of the biggest names in basketball, from Bill Russell and Bob Cousy to Larry Bird, from Rebecca Lobo to LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
The book will be available for purchase and MacMullan will sign copies from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The game begins at 1. MacMullan is donating $5 from each book purchased to the UNH women's basketball program.
ASHLEY'S STOREY
Ashley Storey had hit the 20-point mark in a game once in her career coming into the season. She's did it four times in a row from the Brown game through the Bryant game. She had 21 points against Brown, matched her career high with 22 points against Sacred Heart and Northeastern and had 20 against Bryant.
Storey, who missed all of last season while she rehabilitated from surgeries, added a career-best 12 rebounds against Sacred Heart for the second double-double of her career.
Her first career 22-point night was against Binghamton on Feb. 6, 2016. Her first double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds) came against Stony Brook on Jan. 4, 2017.
Storey also is third in America East with 2.5 steals per game.
"She's just so long and she moves really well," said coach Maureen Magarity. "Her arms are so long. Someone will think they have an easy pass into the post and she'll get in there and deflect it."
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, was 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 four games of the season for the Wildcats.
The five starters had a total of 26 starts 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
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 freshman 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 131-118 overall record and stands fourth in all-time wins at UNH. She is two wins out of the third spot and five out of the No. 2 spot on the list.
Sue Johnson (133-150 record from 1997 to 2007) holds down the No. 3 spot in wins. Cecilia DeMarco (136-86 from 1977-86) is at No. 2. Kathy Sanborn (170-126 from 1986-97) is at the top of 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:
Coming off a loss to Boston University on Wednesday night, the Wildcats play just two days later against the Bulls. Tip off against USF is at 6 P.M.
UNH STORYLINES
- Ashley Storey is averaging 16.9 points a game, which is second in America East.
- Kari Brekke leads the league's freshmen in scoring at 10 points a game.
- She has made 13 of the team's 22 three-point baskets.
- The Wildcats are second in the league in free throw percentage (70-for-92 for 76.1 percent).
- Coach Maureen Magarity is in her ninth season as Wildcat head coach.
- UNH and South Florida last played on Nov. 17, 2007 in Tampa.
- South Florida won that game, 72-56.
- The Bulls are 5-2 and coming off a 60-56 win over UCLA.
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ashley Storey scored 12 points and Kari Brekke added 10 to lead the Wildcats in a loss at Boston University on Wednesday night.
UNH went into the BU game off its first win of the season, a 79-74 triumph over Bryant on Sunday in Lundholm Gymnasium.
Storey had 20 points to lead five players in double figures against Bryant. Brekke had 16 points, Maggie Ahearn 14, Amanda Torres 13 and Soucy 10 against Bryant.
The Bryant game was the first time UNH had five players in double figures in a game since a 71-43 win over Sacred Heart on Dec. 18, 2016. Storey with 12 points and Soucy with 10 were among the players in double figures that night. The others were Carlie Pogue with 16, Kat Fogarty with 15 and Aliza Simpson with 10.
Alli Gribbin blocked five shots against Bryant. Pogue was the last Wildcat to block five shots in a game. She did it in a 58-51 win over UMass Lowell on Jan. 14, 2016.
Storey leads the team in scoring (16.9 points per game) and rebounding (6.4). Brekke averages 10 points a game and Ahearn is at 9.2. Amanda Torres averages 7.7 points per game and Caroline Soucy is at 7.6.
Storey ranks second in America East in scoring, is third in field goal percentage (49-93 for 52.7 percent) and sixth in free throw percentage (19-for-25 for 76 percent).
The Wildcats are second in the league in free throw percentage at 76.1 percent (70-for-92). They are scoring an average of 57.1 points a game and allowing 68 per game.
Maureen Magarity 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 two years combined were the best two-year win total in school history.
Storey and senior Alli Gribbin, the lone senior on the team, are the Wildcat captains.
SCOUTING SOUTH FLORIDA
- The Bulls are 5-2.
- They beat UCLA, 60-56, in their last game.
- This is their first game since playing three in three days in the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- They lost their first two games in the tournament to Kentucky, 85-63, and North Carolina, 71-69.
- South Florida won its first four games of the season, including wins over Ohio State, 71-47, and Albany, 74-37.
- The Bulls have yet to lose a home game (3-0).
- Senior Laura Ferreira averages 18.3 points and 4.6 rebounds a game.
- Freshman Sydni Harvey averages 14.6 points and 2.7 rebounds.
- Beatrice Jordao, a 6-foot-3 freshman, averages 11.9 points and 6.4 rebounds.
- Alyssa Rader averages 6.1 points and 7.9 rebounds a game.
- The Bulls average 73.1 points per game and their opponents average 57.9.
- Last year they lost in the championship of the American Athletic Conference to UConn
- They lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
- The Bulls have qualified for the NCAAs each of the last four seasons.
- They finished 26-8 overall and 13-3 in the AAC last season.
- South Florida has had six straight 20-win seasons under coach Jose Fernandes.
- UNH is 0-2 against the Bulls.
- Amy Simpson scored 23 points in a 72-56 loss to South Florida the last time the teams met on Nov. 17, 2007.
HOME COOKING
Only two of UNH's eight games in November were at home. In contrast, the Wildcats play four of their five December games in Lundholm Gymnasium.
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 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.
NEXT UP
Friday's game is the first of a doubleheader at the Yuengling Center. The South Florida men play Colgate in the nightcap at 8:30.
The Wildcats return to Lundholm Gymnasium for games against the University of New England on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. and Holy Cross on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 1 p.m.
JACKIE MAC IS BACK
Acclaimed author and former UNH basketball captain Jackie MacMullan, '82, will be signing copies of her latest book, "Basketball: A Love Story" before the Holy Cross game.
The book was inspired by the ESPN series of the same name and is in the form of an oral history and includes interviews with well over 100 of the biggest names in basketball, from Bill Russell and Bob Cousy to Larry Bird, from Rebecca Lobo to LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
The book will be available for purchase and MacMullan will sign copies from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The game begins at 1. MacMullan is donating $5 from each book purchased to the UNH women's basketball program.
ASHLEY'S STOREY
Ashley Storey had hit the 20-point mark in a game once in her career coming into the season. She's did it four times in a row from the Brown game through the Bryant game. She had 21 points against Brown, matched her career high with 22 points against Sacred Heart and Northeastern and had 20 against Bryant.
Storey, who missed all of last season while she rehabilitated from surgeries, added a career-best 12 rebounds against Sacred Heart for the second double-double of her career.
Her first career 22-point night was against Binghamton on Feb. 6, 2016. Her first double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds) came against Stony Brook on Jan. 4, 2017.
Storey also is third in America East with 2.5 steals per game.
"She's just so long and she moves really well," said coach Maureen Magarity. "Her arms are so long. Someone will think they have an easy pass into the post and she'll get in there and deflect it."
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, was 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 four games of the season for the Wildcats.
The five starters had a total of 26 starts 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
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 freshman 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 131-118 overall record and stands fourth in all-time wins at UNH. She is two wins out of the third spot and five out of the No. 2 spot on the list.
Sue Johnson (133-150 record from 1997 to 2007) holds down the No. 3 spot in wins. Cecilia DeMarco (136-86 from 1977-86) is at No. 2. Kathy Sanborn (170-126 from 1986-97) is at the top of 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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