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UNH Continues Road Trip, Faces UMBC Sunday (1 P.M.)
2/10/2018 3:13:00 PM | Women's Basketball
2017-2018 New Hampshire Women's Basketball
Sunday, February 11, 2018
New Hampshire (15-10, 6-6 AE) vs.
UMBC (3-21, 2-9 AE); 1:00 p.m.
UMBC Events Center - Baltimore, Md.
WATCH - ESPN3 | LIVE STATS | GAME NOTES
DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team continues its two-game road trip heading down to Baltimore, Md., to face the UMBC Retrievers on Sunday afternoon. Tip off will be at 1 P.M. on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app.
STORYLINES
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Senior Olivia Healy scored 15 points and had seven rebounds to lead the Wildcats in a 77-46 loss to Maine in Bangor on Thursday night. Senior Carlie Pogue had 10 points and five rebounds and freshman guard Amanda Torres added a career high eight points and career high five assists.
UNH is 15-10 overall and 6-6 in America East and is in a battle for a top four spot in the league standings. Maine leads the league at 10-2 and Albany is next at 9-3. Binghamton is 8-4 and Hartford is 6-5. UNH and Stony Brook are tied for fifth place at 6-6.
Pogue leads three Wildcats in double figures in scoring at 14.5 points a game. Healy is next at 12.5 and senior Kat Fogarty is at 11.6. Brittni Lai averages 9.7 points. Healy leads the team in rebounds at 6.4, Pogue's at 6.0, Fogarty at 5.9 and senior Aliza Simpson at 4.8.
The Wildcats are second in America East in scoring defense, allowing 57.8 points a game. They average 59.3 points a game, which is seventh-best in the league in scoring offense.
UNH rallied in the fourth quarter to knock off UMBC, 56-51, in the league opener for both teams in Durham on Jan. 3. The Wildcats trailed 38-33 after three periods and outscored the Retrievers 23-13 in the fourth for the victory.
The Wildcats went 26-6 overall last season and were 15-1 in the America East Conference to grab their first outright regular season league title. They return a veteran group – led by Carlie Pogue, the reigning America East Player of the Year, and three other players who won league postseason honors.
The returning players combined to score 55.7 points of the 61.3 points UNH scored per game last year. Pogue averaged 16.6 points and 7.9 rebounds a game to lead the team in both categories and pull down the program's first Player of the Year honors in nearly three decades.
UNH was picked to finish sixth in last year's America East preseason coaches' poll. Coach Maureen Magarity's squad was picked to finish first in the preseason poll this year.
Pogue was also a first-team All-Conference pick last year. Kat Fogarty averaged 10.4 points and 5.8 rebounds and was named second-team All-Conference. Brittni Lai and Olivia Healy both were named to the All-Conference third team. Lai averaged 11.1 points and 3.3 assists a game and Healy scored 8.7 points and pulled down 5.7 rebounds.
The 2016-17 Wildcats set a program record for wins (the previous mark was 23 in 1982-83) and with their regular season league title earned a spot in the WNIT.
SCOUTING UMBC
Senior guard Laura Castaldo scored 20 points in UMBC's most recent game, a 68-53 loss to Binghamton on Thursday in the team's first game in its new UMBC Event Center. Senior guard Brittani Burgess had a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds. The Retrievers knocked off Vermont, 52-51, in Burlington in their previous game on Feb. 3.
UMBC is 3-21 overall and 2-9 in America East play. The team's other league win was a 66-54 decision at UMass Lowell on Jan. 13.
Castaldo leads in scoring with 11.8 points per game. The Retrievers have four players averaging between seven points and Castaldo's 11.8. Freshman guard Melody Van Ness is at 7.3 points a game, freshman forward Janee'a Summers at 7.1 and sophomore guard Te'yJah Oliver at seven points. Summers leads in rebounding at 5.5 per contest.
The Retrievers average 52 points a game on offense, which is last of the league's nine teams. They allow 65.9 points a game, which is eighth best. They are seventh in the league with 130 three-point baskets. UNH is ninth with 77 treys.
Phil Stern, a 1994 graduate of Concordia, is in his 16th season as coach at UMBC. Stern's wife, Ashley Cieplicki, is the head women's basketball coach at Rutgers Newark.
Last year, UMBC went 15-16 overall and 10-6 in America East. UNH took a pair of games from the Retrievers last season, 60-50 in Durham and 65-61 at UMBC.
UPCOMING: The Wildcats have just four regular season games left starting Sunday at UMBC. UNH returns home to play its Education Day game against Hartford on Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 11 a.m. The Wildcats play their final regular season home game against Stony Brook on Saturday, Feb. 17 at 1 p.m. for Senior Day. The regular season closes with a game at UMass Lowell on Thursday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.
PORTLAND TOWN: Tickets are on sale for the quarterfinals and semifinals of the America East tournament that will be played for the second year at Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, Maine. The quarterfinals are scheduled for Saturday, March 3 and the semifinals for Sunday, March 4. Tickets for the games in Portland are available at www.crossarenaportland.com. The championship game will be played on Friday, March 9 at the home of the top seed remaining in the tournament. The games in Portland will be on ESPN3 and the title game will be on ESPNU. A first-round game will be played Wednesday, Feb. 28 with the No. 8 team in the standings playing host to the No. 9.
PLAY4KAY: The Saturday, Feb. 3 contest against Albany was the team's Play4Kay game in support of the Kay Yow Cancer Foundation, breast cancer awareness and the fight against all women's cancers. Originally called Think Pink, the organization was founded by the late Kay Yow, the head women's basketball coach at North Carolina State University. Yow battled breast cancer off and on for 22 years before passing away from the illness in 2009.
GOOD SEATS ARE AVAILABLE: Individual and group tickets for UNH women's basketball games are available at www.unhwildcats.com, by calling 603-862-4000 or at the Whittemore Center box office.
HOME AGAIN: The Wildcats are 8-3 at home in Lundholm Gymnasium this season. They were 14-2 in their Lundholm games last season.
THE COACH: Maureen Magarity is in her eighth season as head coach of the Wildcats. She directed the program to a 26-6 record and its first outright America East regular season championship in 2016-17. The team won as many as 20 games for only the third time in its history and first since the 1983-84 season. The program's previous record for wins was 23 in 1982-83.
One of last season's featured victories was a 50-44 decision over Maine in Lundholm Gymnasium on Jan. 19. That win was Magarity's 100th as head coach of the Wildcats. She owns a 126-110 overall record at UNH.
Magarity ranks fourth in all-time coaching wins at UNH. Kathy Sanborn (1986-97) was 170-127 in her 11 seasons. Cecelia DeMarco (1977-86) went 136-86 in her nine seasons and Sue Johnson (1997-2007) was 133-150 in her 10 seasons.
Magarity earned America East Coach of the Year honors last season. She was also a finalist for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year award.
CARLIE'S CLIMBING: Carlie Pogue, the America East Player of the Year last season, has broken into the Top 10 on a few UNH career lists. She is at No. 6 on the scoring list with 1,438 career points. Elizabeth Belanger (2012-16) is No. 5 with 1,453. Maren Matthias (2000-04) is No. 4 at 1,503. Pogue is No. 9 in rebounding with 683. Candace Williams (2006-10) is No. 8 at 699. Elizabeth Belanger (2012-16) is No. 7 with 703. Pogue is No. 8 in career blocked shots with 75. Kris Kinney (1985-89) is No. 7 with 77 and Ray Williams (2003-07) is at No. 6 with 84.
FOR THE DEFENSE: UNH is second in America East in scoring defense. The Wildcats allow 57.8 points a game. Maine leads the league at 54.9. UNH led the league in scoring defense last year when it gave up 55 points a game.
SIMPSON ON THE MOVE: Aliza Simpson has moved into the Top 20 in a couple of career categories. She's No. 15 in three-point field goals with 89. Marcie Lane (1991-94) is at No. 14 with 95. Simpson is No. 15 in assists with 253. Christine Gulas (1982-84) is No. 14 with 264.
DOUBLE THE FUN: Carlie Pogue scored 20 points and had 12 rebounds in UNH's 74-68 win over league-leading Albany on Feb. 3 for her first double-double of the season. It was the fifth double-double for the team. Olivia Healy scored 13 points and had 10 rebounds in a 54-52 loss to Binghamton on Jan. 27 for her third double-double. Healy had a career high 23 points and had 11 rebounds in a 63-61 win at Binghamton on Jan. 10. She had 17 points and 10 rebounds against Dartmouth on Dec. 5. Kat Fogarty had 18 points and 11 rebounds against Xavier on Nov. 11 for UNH's first double-double of the season.
BUZZER BEATERS: Three of UNH's four straight league wins from Jan. 10 to Jan. 21 came on baskets in the closing seconds. A Brittni Lai bucket with a couple of seconds left beat Binghamton, 63-61, on the road Jan. 10. A Fogarty basket with 9.3 seconds left at Vermont on Jan. 18 put UNH on top in what became a 52-49 win. Carlie Pogue scored with two seconds left to lift the Wildcats over Stony Brook on Jan. 21. All three of those wins came on the road.
RALLY TIME: The Wildcats have rallied from behind in the fourth quarter on the way to four of their six America East wins this season. They trailed Vermont 37-34 after three periods before rallying to a 52-49 win on Jan. 18. They trailed UMBC, 38-33, heading into the fourth quarter on Jan. 3 and roared back for a 56-51 victory. Binghamton owned a 49-46 lead going into the fourth period on Jan. 10 and UNH pulled out a 63-61 win. UNH led at Stony Brook going into the fourth quarter, but trailed in the last minute before pulling out a 51-50 victory. The Wildcats came from behind to win another America East game as well. On Jan. 15, they trailed UMass Lowell 25-22 at the half and took their first lead at 32-30 with 5:18 left in the third period on the way to a 66-45 win.
GOOD MORNING: The Wagner, Dartmouth and UMBC games had morning start times. They were three of four UNH games scheduled before noon this season. The Wildcats play Hartford on Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 11 a.m. for Education Day.
THE CAPTAINS: Kat Fogarty, Brittni Lai, senior guard Peyton Booth (Wadsworth, Ohio) and junior guard Emily Peters (Lindstrom, Minn.) are captains for the 2017-18 Wildcats.
"All four are tremendous leaders and each brings something different to the group," Magarity said. "Kat and Peyton were our captains last year and obviously did a great job and were deserving again. All four of them stood out as leaders during the offseason and we're excited to have them as our captains."
TITLE TIME: Last year's America East regular season championship was UNH's first outright league title. The Wildcats shared the championship of what was then the Seaboard Conference with Northeastern in 1984-85. Both teams had 4-1 records in the league.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
New Hampshire (15-10, 6-6 AE) vs.
UMBC (3-21, 2-9 AE); 1:00 p.m.
UMBC Events Center - Baltimore, Md.
WATCH - ESPN3 | LIVE STATS | GAME NOTES
DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team continues its two-game road trip heading down to Baltimore, Md., to face the UMBC Retrievers on Sunday afternoon. Tip off will be at 1 P.M. on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app.
STORYLINES
- UNH is 6-6 in America East and 15-10 overall after Thursday's 77-46 loss at Maine.
- The Wildcats are tied for fifth in the league standings.
- UNH plays Hartford in an Education Day game on Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 11 a.m.
- Senior Day is Saturday, Feb. 17 vs. Stony Brook at 1 p.m.
- Quarterfinals, semifinals of the league tournament are March 3 and 4 in Portland, Maine.
- UNH is 8-3 in Lundholm Gymnasium this season.
- There are four games left, two at home, in the regular season.
- The Wildcats won their first outright America East regular season championship with a 15-1 league record last year.
- Tickets for UNH home games are available at www.unhwildcats.com, by calling 603-862-4000 or at the Whittemore Center box office.
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Senior Olivia Healy scored 15 points and had seven rebounds to lead the Wildcats in a 77-46 loss to Maine in Bangor on Thursday night. Senior Carlie Pogue had 10 points and five rebounds and freshman guard Amanda Torres added a career high eight points and career high five assists.
UNH is 15-10 overall and 6-6 in America East and is in a battle for a top four spot in the league standings. Maine leads the league at 10-2 and Albany is next at 9-3. Binghamton is 8-4 and Hartford is 6-5. UNH and Stony Brook are tied for fifth place at 6-6.
Pogue leads three Wildcats in double figures in scoring at 14.5 points a game. Healy is next at 12.5 and senior Kat Fogarty is at 11.6. Brittni Lai averages 9.7 points. Healy leads the team in rebounds at 6.4, Pogue's at 6.0, Fogarty at 5.9 and senior Aliza Simpson at 4.8.
The Wildcats are second in America East in scoring defense, allowing 57.8 points a game. They average 59.3 points a game, which is seventh-best in the league in scoring offense.
UNH rallied in the fourth quarter to knock off UMBC, 56-51, in the league opener for both teams in Durham on Jan. 3. The Wildcats trailed 38-33 after three periods and outscored the Retrievers 23-13 in the fourth for the victory.
The Wildcats went 26-6 overall last season and were 15-1 in the America East Conference to grab their first outright regular season league title. They return a veteran group – led by Carlie Pogue, the reigning America East Player of the Year, and three other players who won league postseason honors.
The returning players combined to score 55.7 points of the 61.3 points UNH scored per game last year. Pogue averaged 16.6 points and 7.9 rebounds a game to lead the team in both categories and pull down the program's first Player of the Year honors in nearly three decades.
UNH was picked to finish sixth in last year's America East preseason coaches' poll. Coach Maureen Magarity's squad was picked to finish first in the preseason poll this year.
Pogue was also a first-team All-Conference pick last year. Kat Fogarty averaged 10.4 points and 5.8 rebounds and was named second-team All-Conference. Brittni Lai and Olivia Healy both were named to the All-Conference third team. Lai averaged 11.1 points and 3.3 assists a game and Healy scored 8.7 points and pulled down 5.7 rebounds.
The 2016-17 Wildcats set a program record for wins (the previous mark was 23 in 1982-83) and with their regular season league title earned a spot in the WNIT.
SCOUTING UMBC
Senior guard Laura Castaldo scored 20 points in UMBC's most recent game, a 68-53 loss to Binghamton on Thursday in the team's first game in its new UMBC Event Center. Senior guard Brittani Burgess had a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds. The Retrievers knocked off Vermont, 52-51, in Burlington in their previous game on Feb. 3.
UMBC is 3-21 overall and 2-9 in America East play. The team's other league win was a 66-54 decision at UMass Lowell on Jan. 13.
Castaldo leads in scoring with 11.8 points per game. The Retrievers have four players averaging between seven points and Castaldo's 11.8. Freshman guard Melody Van Ness is at 7.3 points a game, freshman forward Janee'a Summers at 7.1 and sophomore guard Te'yJah Oliver at seven points. Summers leads in rebounding at 5.5 per contest.
The Retrievers average 52 points a game on offense, which is last of the league's nine teams. They allow 65.9 points a game, which is eighth best. They are seventh in the league with 130 three-point baskets. UNH is ninth with 77 treys.
Phil Stern, a 1994 graduate of Concordia, is in his 16th season as coach at UMBC. Stern's wife, Ashley Cieplicki, is the head women's basketball coach at Rutgers Newark.
Last year, UMBC went 15-16 overall and 10-6 in America East. UNH took a pair of games from the Retrievers last season, 60-50 in Durham and 65-61 at UMBC.
UPCOMING: The Wildcats have just four regular season games left starting Sunday at UMBC. UNH returns home to play its Education Day game against Hartford on Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 11 a.m. The Wildcats play their final regular season home game against Stony Brook on Saturday, Feb. 17 at 1 p.m. for Senior Day. The regular season closes with a game at UMass Lowell on Thursday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.
PORTLAND TOWN: Tickets are on sale for the quarterfinals and semifinals of the America East tournament that will be played for the second year at Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, Maine. The quarterfinals are scheduled for Saturday, March 3 and the semifinals for Sunday, March 4. Tickets for the games in Portland are available at www.crossarenaportland.com. The championship game will be played on Friday, March 9 at the home of the top seed remaining in the tournament. The games in Portland will be on ESPN3 and the title game will be on ESPNU. A first-round game will be played Wednesday, Feb. 28 with the No. 8 team in the standings playing host to the No. 9.
PLAY4KAY: The Saturday, Feb. 3 contest against Albany was the team's Play4Kay game in support of the Kay Yow Cancer Foundation, breast cancer awareness and the fight against all women's cancers. Originally called Think Pink, the organization was founded by the late Kay Yow, the head women's basketball coach at North Carolina State University. Yow battled breast cancer off and on for 22 years before passing away from the illness in 2009.
GOOD SEATS ARE AVAILABLE: Individual and group tickets for UNH women's basketball games are available at www.unhwildcats.com, by calling 603-862-4000 or at the Whittemore Center box office.
HOME AGAIN: The Wildcats are 8-3 at home in Lundholm Gymnasium this season. They were 14-2 in their Lundholm games last season.
THE COACH: Maureen Magarity is in her eighth season as head coach of the Wildcats. She directed the program to a 26-6 record and its first outright America East regular season championship in 2016-17. The team won as many as 20 games for only the third time in its history and first since the 1983-84 season. The program's previous record for wins was 23 in 1982-83.
One of last season's featured victories was a 50-44 decision over Maine in Lundholm Gymnasium on Jan. 19. That win was Magarity's 100th as head coach of the Wildcats. She owns a 126-110 overall record at UNH.
Magarity ranks fourth in all-time coaching wins at UNH. Kathy Sanborn (1986-97) was 170-127 in her 11 seasons. Cecelia DeMarco (1977-86) went 136-86 in her nine seasons and Sue Johnson (1997-2007) was 133-150 in her 10 seasons.
Magarity earned America East Coach of the Year honors last season. She was also a finalist for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year award.
CARLIE'S CLIMBING: Carlie Pogue, the America East Player of the Year last season, has broken into the Top 10 on a few UNH career lists. She is at No. 6 on the scoring list with 1,438 career points. Elizabeth Belanger (2012-16) is No. 5 with 1,453. Maren Matthias (2000-04) is No. 4 at 1,503. Pogue is No. 9 in rebounding with 683. Candace Williams (2006-10) is No. 8 at 699. Elizabeth Belanger (2012-16) is No. 7 with 703. Pogue is No. 8 in career blocked shots with 75. Kris Kinney (1985-89) is No. 7 with 77 and Ray Williams (2003-07) is at No. 6 with 84.
FOR THE DEFENSE: UNH is second in America East in scoring defense. The Wildcats allow 57.8 points a game. Maine leads the league at 54.9. UNH led the league in scoring defense last year when it gave up 55 points a game.
SIMPSON ON THE MOVE: Aliza Simpson has moved into the Top 20 in a couple of career categories. She's No. 15 in three-point field goals with 89. Marcie Lane (1991-94) is at No. 14 with 95. Simpson is No. 15 in assists with 253. Christine Gulas (1982-84) is No. 14 with 264.
DOUBLE THE FUN: Carlie Pogue scored 20 points and had 12 rebounds in UNH's 74-68 win over league-leading Albany on Feb. 3 for her first double-double of the season. It was the fifth double-double for the team. Olivia Healy scored 13 points and had 10 rebounds in a 54-52 loss to Binghamton on Jan. 27 for her third double-double. Healy had a career high 23 points and had 11 rebounds in a 63-61 win at Binghamton on Jan. 10. She had 17 points and 10 rebounds against Dartmouth on Dec. 5. Kat Fogarty had 18 points and 11 rebounds against Xavier on Nov. 11 for UNH's first double-double of the season.
BUZZER BEATERS: Three of UNH's four straight league wins from Jan. 10 to Jan. 21 came on baskets in the closing seconds. A Brittni Lai bucket with a couple of seconds left beat Binghamton, 63-61, on the road Jan. 10. A Fogarty basket with 9.3 seconds left at Vermont on Jan. 18 put UNH on top in what became a 52-49 win. Carlie Pogue scored with two seconds left to lift the Wildcats over Stony Brook on Jan. 21. All three of those wins came on the road.
RALLY TIME: The Wildcats have rallied from behind in the fourth quarter on the way to four of their six America East wins this season. They trailed Vermont 37-34 after three periods before rallying to a 52-49 win on Jan. 18. They trailed UMBC, 38-33, heading into the fourth quarter on Jan. 3 and roared back for a 56-51 victory. Binghamton owned a 49-46 lead going into the fourth period on Jan. 10 and UNH pulled out a 63-61 win. UNH led at Stony Brook going into the fourth quarter, but trailed in the last minute before pulling out a 51-50 victory. The Wildcats came from behind to win another America East game as well. On Jan. 15, they trailed UMass Lowell 25-22 at the half and took their first lead at 32-30 with 5:18 left in the third period on the way to a 66-45 win.
GOOD MORNING: The Wagner, Dartmouth and UMBC games had morning start times. They were three of four UNH games scheduled before noon this season. The Wildcats play Hartford on Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 11 a.m. for Education Day.
THE CAPTAINS: Kat Fogarty, Brittni Lai, senior guard Peyton Booth (Wadsworth, Ohio) and junior guard Emily Peters (Lindstrom, Minn.) are captains for the 2017-18 Wildcats.
"All four are tremendous leaders and each brings something different to the group," Magarity said. "Kat and Peyton were our captains last year and obviously did a great job and were deserving again. All four of them stood out as leaders during the offseason and we're excited to have them as our captains."
TITLE TIME: Last year's America East regular season championship was UNH's first outright league title. The Wildcats shared the championship of what was then the Seaboard Conference with Northeastern in 1984-85. Both teams had 4-1 records in the league.
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