University of New Hampshire Athletics
Monday, February 5
Durham, N.H.
7 PM
University of New Hampshire
vs
University of Vermont
Aliza Simpson (Photo by Helene Bartsch)
Photo by: Helene Bartsch
‘Cats Host Catamounts in Monday Night Battle (7 P.M.)
2/4/2018 3:24:00 PM | Women's Basketball
The Wildcats are coming off a huge home win against Albany.
2017-2018 New Hampshire Women's Basketball
Monday, February 5, 2018
New Hampshire (15-8, 6-4 AE) vs.
Vermont (6-16, 3-6 AE); 1:00 p.m.
Lundholm Gym - Durham, N.H.
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DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team snapped a three game losing streak this past Saturday, taking down the first-place Albany Great Danes. Next, they will host the Vermont Catamounts on Monday, Feb. 5 at 7 P.M. on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app.
STORYLINES
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Senior Carlie Pogue put up her first double-double of the season with 20 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Wildcats to a 74-68 win over league-leading Albany on Saturday in Durham. UNH handed the Great Danes just their second conference loss of the season and snapped their winning streak at eight games. The Wildcats stopped their own losing streak at three games. Senior Kat Fogarty had 16 points and senior Brittni Lai had 14 points and five assists.
UNH improved to 15-8 overall and 6-4 in America East and did a nice job of tightening up the league standings with its win over Albany. With most teams having six games left to play in the regular season, Albany and Maine are tied for first place with 8-2 records and New Hampshire, Binghamton and Hartford are all tied for third. Stony Brook is just behind that at 5-5.
Pogue leads four Wildcats in double figures at 15.1 points a game. Fogarty averages 12.3, senior Olivia Healy is at 12.2 and Lai at 101. Healy leads in rebounds at 6.4, Pogue's at 6.1, Fogarty at 6 with senior Aliza Simpson at 4.7.
The Wildcats are second in America East in scoring defense, allowing 56.9 points a game. They average 60.2 points a game, which is sixth-best in the league in scoring offense.
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 VERMONT
The Catamounts were edged at home by UMBC, 52-51, on Saturday for their third straight loss. They are 6-16 overall and 3-6 in America East. Hannah Crymble, a 6-foot-3 sophomore, led Vermont with 18 points and four rebounds against UMBC. She's scored in double figures in 19 of the team's 22 games. Senior guard Katie Lavelle had nine points against UMBC.
Crymble averages 18.5 points a game, which is second in the league. She gets 5.6 rebounds a game. Senior guard Sydney Smith averages 11.1 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.
Crymble is first in the league in free throw percentage and second in field goal percentage. She's made 104 of her 116 free throws (89.7 percent) and 145 of her 256 field goals (56.6 percent.)
The Catamounts average 58.9 points a game and allow 61.9. Junior forward Cassidy Derda leads the Catamounts with 39 three-point field goals and senior guard Kristina White has 34.
Chris Day, a 1997 graduate of West Chester University, is in his second season as head coach at Vermont. The Catamounts were 9-20 overall and 6-10 in the conference last season. UNH took both games of the season series against Vermont last year. The Wildcats won 57-49 at Vermont on Jan. 16 and completed the sweep with a 66-47 win in Durham on Feb. 9.
MONDAY IS FOR CELEBRATING: UNH celebrates its National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Monday night against Vermont. Bring your favorite, coach, teammate or sports influence to the game and get two tickets for the price of one.
UPCOMING: The Wildcats have just six regular season games left including Monday's Vermont game. They are at Maine on Thursday, Feb. 8 and at UMBC on Sunday, Feb. 11. 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.
LUCKY LUNDHOLM: The Wildcats are 8-2 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 126-108 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. 7 on the scoring list with 1,422 career points. Orsi Farkas (1996-2000) is at No. 6 with 1,434. Elizabeth Belanger (1,453) is No. 5 with 1,453. Pogue is No. 10 on the rebounding list with 673. Kelly Butterfield (1981-85) is No. 9 at 678. Candace Williams (2006-10) is No. 8 at 699. 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 56.9 points a game. Maine leads the league at 55.2. 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. 16 in three-point field goals with 86. Adriane Domanski (1998-00) is next on the list at No. 15 with 87 and Marcie Lane (1991-94) is at No. 14 with 95. Simpson is No. 15 in assists with 250. Christine Gulas (1982-84) is No. 14 with 264.
DOUBLE THE FUN: Carly 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 ffith 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.
Monday, February 5, 2018
New Hampshire (15-8, 6-4 AE) vs.
Vermont (6-16, 3-6 AE); 1:00 p.m.
Lundholm Gym - Durham, N.H.
WATCH - ESPN3 | LIVE STATS | GAME NOTES | TICKETS
DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team snapped a three game losing streak this past Saturday, taking down the first-place Albany Great Danes. Next, they will host the Vermont Catamounts on Monday, Feb. 5 at 7 P.M. on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app.
STORYLINES
- UNH is 6-4 in America East and 15-8 overall after Saturday's 74-68 win over Albany.
- The Wildcats are in a three-way tie for third place in the league standings.
- UNH celebrates National Girls & Women in Sports Day vs. Vermont.
- The Wildcats snapped Albany's eight-game win streak.
- Quarterfinals, semifinals of the league tournament are March 3 and 4 in Portland, Maine.
- UNH is 8-2 in Lundholm Gymnasium this season.
- The Wildcats won their first outright America East regular season championship with a 15-1 league record last year.
- Coach Maureen Magarity was named America East Coach of the Year last season.
- 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 Carlie Pogue put up her first double-double of the season with 20 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Wildcats to a 74-68 win over league-leading Albany on Saturday in Durham. UNH handed the Great Danes just their second conference loss of the season and snapped their winning streak at eight games. The Wildcats stopped their own losing streak at three games. Senior Kat Fogarty had 16 points and senior Brittni Lai had 14 points and five assists.
UNH improved to 15-8 overall and 6-4 in America East and did a nice job of tightening up the league standings with its win over Albany. With most teams having six games left to play in the regular season, Albany and Maine are tied for first place with 8-2 records and New Hampshire, Binghamton and Hartford are all tied for third. Stony Brook is just behind that at 5-5.
Pogue leads four Wildcats in double figures at 15.1 points a game. Fogarty averages 12.3, senior Olivia Healy is at 12.2 and Lai at 101. Healy leads in rebounds at 6.4, Pogue's at 6.1, Fogarty at 6 with senior Aliza Simpson at 4.7.
The Wildcats are second in America East in scoring defense, allowing 56.9 points a game. They average 60.2 points a game, which is sixth-best in the league in scoring offense.
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 VERMONT
The Catamounts were edged at home by UMBC, 52-51, on Saturday for their third straight loss. They are 6-16 overall and 3-6 in America East. Hannah Crymble, a 6-foot-3 sophomore, led Vermont with 18 points and four rebounds against UMBC. She's scored in double figures in 19 of the team's 22 games. Senior guard Katie Lavelle had nine points against UMBC.
Crymble averages 18.5 points a game, which is second in the league. She gets 5.6 rebounds a game. Senior guard Sydney Smith averages 11.1 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.
Crymble is first in the league in free throw percentage and second in field goal percentage. She's made 104 of her 116 free throws (89.7 percent) and 145 of her 256 field goals (56.6 percent.)
The Catamounts average 58.9 points a game and allow 61.9. Junior forward Cassidy Derda leads the Catamounts with 39 three-point field goals and senior guard Kristina White has 34.
Chris Day, a 1997 graduate of West Chester University, is in his second season as head coach at Vermont. The Catamounts were 9-20 overall and 6-10 in the conference last season. UNH took both games of the season series against Vermont last year. The Wildcats won 57-49 at Vermont on Jan. 16 and completed the sweep with a 66-47 win in Durham on Feb. 9.
MONDAY IS FOR CELEBRATING: UNH celebrates its National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Monday night against Vermont. Bring your favorite, coach, teammate or sports influence to the game and get two tickets for the price of one.
UPCOMING: The Wildcats have just six regular season games left including Monday's Vermont game. They are at Maine on Thursday, Feb. 8 and at UMBC on Sunday, Feb. 11. 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.
LUCKY LUNDHOLM: The Wildcats are 8-2 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 126-108 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. 7 on the scoring list with 1,422 career points. Orsi Farkas (1996-2000) is at No. 6 with 1,434. Elizabeth Belanger (1,453) is No. 5 with 1,453. Pogue is No. 10 on the rebounding list with 673. Kelly Butterfield (1981-85) is No. 9 at 678. Candace Williams (2006-10) is No. 8 at 699. 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 56.9 points a game. Maine leads the league at 55.2. 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. 16 in three-point field goals with 86. Adriane Domanski (1998-00) is next on the list at No. 15 with 87 and Marcie Lane (1991-94) is at No. 14 with 95. Simpson is No. 15 in assists with 250. Christine Gulas (1982-84) is No. 14 with 264.
DOUBLE THE FUN: Carly 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 ffith 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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