University of New Hampshire Athletics
Wednesday, January 23
Durham, N.H.
7 PM
University of New Hampshire
vs
Hartford
Kari Brekke (Photo by Audrey Powell)
‘Cats Back in Action Wednesday Night Hosting Hartford (7 P.M., ESPN+)
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Wildcats face the Hawks Wednesday evening in Lundholm Gym.
DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team looks for its second America East Conference victory when it takes on league-leading Hartford in Lundholm Gymnasium on Wednesday night at 7.
Senior forward Alli Gribbin (Keller, Texas) and freshman guard Kari Brekke (Appleton, Wis.) scored 17 points each to lead the Wildcats in their most recent game at Vermont last Wednesday.
UNH brings a 4-14 overall record and 1-4 mark in America East into the game.
Hartford is 12-7 overall and 5-0 in the league and has a seven-game win streak.
Senior guard Lindsey Abed led the Hawks with 23 points in their most recent win, 66-44, at UMass Lowell on Saturday.
The Wildcats will play Hartford without their leading scorer, junior forward Ashley Storey (Cumberland, Maine). Storey has missed the last three games and is expected to miss at least six weeks with a foot injury.
After Hartford, UNH plays at UMBC on Saturday, Jan. 26 and at Albany on Wednesday, Jan. 30.
The Wildcats return home to play Maine on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m.
Tickets for all home games are available by calling 603-862-4000 or at www.unhwildcats.com.
STORYLINES
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ali Gribbin and Kari Brekke each had career highs of 17 points to lead the Wildcats at Vermont.
Gribbin crushed her old mark of 11 points. Brekke's previous best was 16 points.
UNH's last win was a 56-53 decision at UMass Lowell. That win was No. 134 at UNH for head coach Maureen Magarity, moving her into sole possession of the No. 3 spot on the program's list of career wins.
The Wildcats have played their last three games without leading scorer Ashley Storey. The 6-foot-3 junior forward leads the team in scoring and is sixth in America East in rebounding. Storey is expected to miss at least six weeks with a foot injury.
Brekke is averaging 13 points a game through the last four games to lead the Wildcats. Freshman Ivy Gogolin has averaged 8.3 points and 6.3 rebounds in the last three games while replacing Storey in the starting lineup.
Brekke made three of her five three-pointers against Vermont. She has 28 of the team's 83 three-pointers.
UNH is 4-14 overall and 1-4 in America East.
Magarity has a 134-126 record in her eight-plus seasons with the Wildcats. She is two wins out of the No. 2 spot on the career wins list. Cecilia DeMarco went 136-86 from 1977-86.
Brekke leads America East freshmen in scoring at 9 points per game. Junior guard Caroline Soucy averages 8.4 points a game and Amanda Torres is at 6.9.
Torres is third in America East free throw shooting (45-for-63 for 71.4 percent).
Brekke is tied for ninth in the league in assists at 2.5 per game and is fourth in minutes played at 35.7 per game.
The Wildcats are scoring an average of 55.3 points a game and allowing 67.3 per game.
Magarity 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 last 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.
HARTFORD
- The Hawks are 12-7 overall and 5-0 in America East.
- They have won seven straight games.
- They have averaged 61.2 points a game in league games while allowing 42.
- Hartford won its most recent game at UMass Lowell, 66-44, on Saturday.
- Other conference wins have been at Stony Brook, 64-36, at UMBC, 66-52, and home against Vermont, 61-32, and Maine, 49-46.
- Senior guard Lindsey Abed scored Hartford's first 12 points and 23 total against UMass Lowell.
- The Hawks set a school record with 26 steals against UMass Lowell.
- They average 12.7 steals a game to lead the team.
- Hartford is fourth in the league with 121 three-pointers.
- The team's 61.6 points a game total is third-best in the league.
- The Hawks are second in defense at 57.9 points allowed per game.
- Abed averages 13.8 points per game.
- She leads the league in three-point percentage (48-for-129 for 37.2 percent).
- Junior guard Sierra DaCosta averages 11.6 points per game.
- Abed averages 2.5 assists and 2.5 steals a game.
- Sophomore guard Jade Young averages 2.3 steals a game.
- Ella Awobajo, a grad transfer from Boston College, averages 10.5 points and 5.4 rebounds a game.
- Kim McNeil is in her third season as Hartford head coach.
- She's a 2000 graduate of Richmond.
- The Hawks were 19-13 overall and 9-7 in America East last season.
- Hartford and UNH split a pair of games last season with each team winning at home.
- The Hawks were picked to finish tied for second in the America East preseason poll.
- They were tied with Stony Brook.
- Maine was picked first.
- UNH leads the series 36-33.
HOME COOKING
The Wildcats are 3-5 in Lundholm Gymnasium this season.
Only two of UNH's eight games in November were at home. In contrast, the Wildcats played four of their five December games in Lundholm.
The Hartford game is UNH's final home game in January.
The Wildcats will have four home games in February and one in March.
They open February with games against Maine on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. and against UMass Lowell on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. They play Vermont at home on Wednesday, Feb. 13 and Albany at home on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at noon.
UNH closes the regular season with a home game against UMBC on Saturday, March 2 at noon.
Tickets for all home games are available by calling 603-862-4000 or at www.unhwildcats.com.
SIDELINED
The depth of the Wildcats – especially in the frontcourt – has taken a major hit this season.
Junior forward Ashley Storey (Cumberland, Maine) is the latest to be sidelined. She's been out of the lineup since the UMass Lowell game on Jan. 9 and is expected to miss at least six weeks with a foot injury.
Three Wildcats – including two frontcourt players – are out for the year with knee injuries.
Sophomore forward Maggie Ahearn (Marshfield, Mass.) started seven of the first eight games of the season and played in nine games total before being injured. She averaged 8.7 points and a team-high 6.6 rebounds in her nine games.
Ahearn had a double-double with 16 points and 14 rebounds against Brown and another with 12 points and 11 rebounds against Holy Cross. The 14 rebounds are a UNH high for the season.
Ahearn sat out last season as a transfer from Providence College.
Freshman forward Faith Bonett (Moorestown, N.J.) played in the first three games of the season as a backup and then was injured during practice.
Junior guard Sarah Clement (Falmouth, Maine) has missed the entire season as she rehabilitates from offseason surgery.
ASHLEY'S STOREY
Ashley Storey was one of the leading scorers in America East at 17.1 points per game when she was sidelined and also was among the league leaders in several other categories.
Storey had hit the 20-point mark in a game once in her career coming into the season.
She's done it seven times this year, including 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. She set a new career high with 23 points against Holy Cross and matched that, too, against Central Connecticut State.
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 double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds) came against Stony Brook on Jan. 4, 2017.
Storey also leads the team with two 2.0 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."
WEEKLY HONORS
Freshman guard Kali Grimm (Norwood Young America, Minn.) was named America East Rookie of the Week, the league announced Jan. 14.
Grimm came off the bench and averaged 14 points and two rebounds a game in a pair of America East Conference contests.
She led three Wildcat freshmen in double figures with 15 points in a 56-53 win at UMass Lowell on Jan. 9. It was UNH's first conference win of the season.
Grimm had 13 points in an 82-63 loss to Stony Brook on Jan. 12.
In each game, Grimm made four of her eight three-point attempts. The four three-pointers matched the UNH best for the season.
Grimm was the second Wildcat to earn Rookie of the Week honors this season.
Kari Brekke (Appleton, Wis.) earned the award for games the week of Dec. 3-10.
Brekke averaged 7.5 points and six assists per game in a pair of Wildcat wins.
Brekke had nine points and doubled her career high with eight assists in UNH's 74-62 win over Holy Cross on Dec. 9 in Lundholm. She made two of her four three-point field goal attempts in the game.
Brekke had six points and four assists in UNH's 68-44 win over the University of New England on Dec. 6.
RAINING TREYS
The Wildcats made 10 of the 16 three-point shots they attempted against Holy Cross, their highest total for made threes in seven years. They matched that number with 10 three-pointers against Stony Brook on Jan. 12.
The last time the Wildcats had as many as 10 three-pointers was Dec. 3, 2011 when they hit 12 in a loss to Harvard.
Ashley Storey made all three of the three-pointers she took against Holy Cross. Caroline Soucy also made three and Kari Brekke had a pair. Maggie Ahearn and Alli Gribbin each made one three-pointer in the game.
Kali Grimm and Caroline Soucy each had four three-pointers against Stony Brook.
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 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 134-126 overall record and grabbed sole possession of the No. 3 spot in all-time wins at UNH with the victory against UMass Lowell. She is two wins out of the No. 2 spot on the list.
Cecilia DeMarco (136-86 from 1977-86) is at No. 2 on the wins list. Kathy Sanborn (170-126 from 1986-97) is at the top of the list.
JACKIE CAME BACK
Acclaimed author and former UNH basketball captain Jackie MacMullan, '82, signed 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.
MacMullan donated $5 from each book purchased to the UNH women's basketball program.
DOUBLING UP
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.
Ashley Storey had 20 points, Kari Brekke 16, Maggie Ahearn 14, Amanda Torres 13 and Caroline Soucy 10 against Bryant.
Against Sacred Heart two years ago, Storey with 12 points and Soucy with 10 were among the players in double figures. 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.
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.
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.
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:
Senior forward Alli Gribbin (Keller, Texas) and freshman guard Kari Brekke (Appleton, Wis.) scored 17 points each to lead the Wildcats in their most recent game at Vermont last Wednesday.
UNH brings a 4-14 overall record and 1-4 mark in America East into the game.
Hartford is 12-7 overall and 5-0 in the league and has a seven-game win streak.
Senior guard Lindsey Abed led the Hawks with 23 points in their most recent win, 66-44, at UMass Lowell on Saturday.
The Wildcats will play Hartford without their leading scorer, junior forward Ashley Storey (Cumberland, Maine). Storey has missed the last three games and is expected to miss at least six weeks with a foot injury.
After Hartford, UNH plays at UMBC on Saturday, Jan. 26 and at Albany on Wednesday, Jan. 30.
The Wildcats return home to play Maine on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m.
Tickets for all home games are available by calling 603-862-4000 or at www.unhwildcats.com.
STORYLINES
- Senior forward Alli Gribbin and freshman guard Kari Brekke led UNH with 17 points each vs. Vermont.
- Leading scorer Ashley Storey has missed the last three games and is expected to be out at least six weeks with a foot injury.
- UNH's win over UMass Lowell was the 134th at UNH for coach Maureen Magarity.
- Magarity moved into the No. 3 spot in career wins in the program.
- Lindsey Abed averages 13.8 points a game to lead Hartford.
- The Hawks have won their last seven games.
- They have outscored opponents 61.2 to 42 in league games.
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ali Gribbin and Kari Brekke each had career highs of 17 points to lead the Wildcats at Vermont.
Gribbin crushed her old mark of 11 points. Brekke's previous best was 16 points.
UNH's last win was a 56-53 decision at UMass Lowell. That win was No. 134 at UNH for head coach Maureen Magarity, moving her into sole possession of the No. 3 spot on the program's list of career wins.
The Wildcats have played their last three games without leading scorer Ashley Storey. The 6-foot-3 junior forward leads the team in scoring and is sixth in America East in rebounding. Storey is expected to miss at least six weeks with a foot injury.
Brekke is averaging 13 points a game through the last four games to lead the Wildcats. Freshman Ivy Gogolin has averaged 8.3 points and 6.3 rebounds in the last three games while replacing Storey in the starting lineup.
Brekke made three of her five three-pointers against Vermont. She has 28 of the team's 83 three-pointers.
UNH is 4-14 overall and 1-4 in America East.
Magarity has a 134-126 record in her eight-plus seasons with the Wildcats. She is two wins out of the No. 2 spot on the career wins list. Cecilia DeMarco went 136-86 from 1977-86.
Brekke leads America East freshmen in scoring at 9 points per game. Junior guard Caroline Soucy averages 8.4 points a game and Amanda Torres is at 6.9.
Torres is third in America East free throw shooting (45-for-63 for 71.4 percent).
Brekke is tied for ninth in the league in assists at 2.5 per game and is fourth in minutes played at 35.7 per game.
The Wildcats are scoring an average of 55.3 points a game and allowing 67.3 per game.
Magarity 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 last 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.
HARTFORD
- The Hawks are 12-7 overall and 5-0 in America East.
- They have won seven straight games.
- They have averaged 61.2 points a game in league games while allowing 42.
- Hartford won its most recent game at UMass Lowell, 66-44, on Saturday.
- Other conference wins have been at Stony Brook, 64-36, at UMBC, 66-52, and home against Vermont, 61-32, and Maine, 49-46.
- Senior guard Lindsey Abed scored Hartford's first 12 points and 23 total against UMass Lowell.
- The Hawks set a school record with 26 steals against UMass Lowell.
- They average 12.7 steals a game to lead the team.
- Hartford is fourth in the league with 121 three-pointers.
- The team's 61.6 points a game total is third-best in the league.
- The Hawks are second in defense at 57.9 points allowed per game.
- Abed averages 13.8 points per game.
- She leads the league in three-point percentage (48-for-129 for 37.2 percent).
- Junior guard Sierra DaCosta averages 11.6 points per game.
- Abed averages 2.5 assists and 2.5 steals a game.
- Sophomore guard Jade Young averages 2.3 steals a game.
- Ella Awobajo, a grad transfer from Boston College, averages 10.5 points and 5.4 rebounds a game.
- Kim McNeil is in her third season as Hartford head coach.
- She's a 2000 graduate of Richmond.
- The Hawks were 19-13 overall and 9-7 in America East last season.
- Hartford and UNH split a pair of games last season with each team winning at home.
- The Hawks were picked to finish tied for second in the America East preseason poll.
- They were tied with Stony Brook.
- Maine was picked first.
- UNH leads the series 36-33.
HOME COOKING
The Wildcats are 3-5 in Lundholm Gymnasium this season.
Only two of UNH's eight games in November were at home. In contrast, the Wildcats played four of their five December games in Lundholm.
The Hartford game is UNH's final home game in January.
The Wildcats will have four home games in February and one in March.
They open February with games against Maine on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. and against UMass Lowell on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. They play Vermont at home on Wednesday, Feb. 13 and Albany at home on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at noon.
UNH closes the regular season with a home game against UMBC on Saturday, March 2 at noon.
Tickets for all home games are available by calling 603-862-4000 or at www.unhwildcats.com.
SIDELINED
The depth of the Wildcats – especially in the frontcourt – has taken a major hit this season.
Junior forward Ashley Storey (Cumberland, Maine) is the latest to be sidelined. She's been out of the lineup since the UMass Lowell game on Jan. 9 and is expected to miss at least six weeks with a foot injury.
Three Wildcats – including two frontcourt players – are out for the year with knee injuries.
Sophomore forward Maggie Ahearn (Marshfield, Mass.) started seven of the first eight games of the season and played in nine games total before being injured. She averaged 8.7 points and a team-high 6.6 rebounds in her nine games.
Ahearn had a double-double with 16 points and 14 rebounds against Brown and another with 12 points and 11 rebounds against Holy Cross. The 14 rebounds are a UNH high for the season.
Ahearn sat out last season as a transfer from Providence College.
Freshman forward Faith Bonett (Moorestown, N.J.) played in the first three games of the season as a backup and then was injured during practice.
Junior guard Sarah Clement (Falmouth, Maine) has missed the entire season as she rehabilitates from offseason surgery.
ASHLEY'S STOREY
Ashley Storey was one of the leading scorers in America East at 17.1 points per game when she was sidelined and also was among the league leaders in several other categories.
Storey had hit the 20-point mark in a game once in her career coming into the season.
She's done it seven times this year, including 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. She set a new career high with 23 points against Holy Cross and matched that, too, against Central Connecticut State.
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 double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds) came against Stony Brook on Jan. 4, 2017.
Storey also leads the team with two 2.0 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."
WEEKLY HONORS
Freshman guard Kali Grimm (Norwood Young America, Minn.) was named America East Rookie of the Week, the league announced Jan. 14.
Grimm came off the bench and averaged 14 points and two rebounds a game in a pair of America East Conference contests.
She led three Wildcat freshmen in double figures with 15 points in a 56-53 win at UMass Lowell on Jan. 9. It was UNH's first conference win of the season.
Grimm had 13 points in an 82-63 loss to Stony Brook on Jan. 12.
In each game, Grimm made four of her eight three-point attempts. The four three-pointers matched the UNH best for the season.
Grimm was the second Wildcat to earn Rookie of the Week honors this season.
Kari Brekke (Appleton, Wis.) earned the award for games the week of Dec. 3-10.
Brekke averaged 7.5 points and six assists per game in a pair of Wildcat wins.
Brekke had nine points and doubled her career high with eight assists in UNH's 74-62 win over Holy Cross on Dec. 9 in Lundholm. She made two of her four three-point field goal attempts in the game.
Brekke had six points and four assists in UNH's 68-44 win over the University of New England on Dec. 6.
RAINING TREYS
The Wildcats made 10 of the 16 three-point shots they attempted against Holy Cross, their highest total for made threes in seven years. They matched that number with 10 three-pointers against Stony Brook on Jan. 12.
The last time the Wildcats had as many as 10 three-pointers was Dec. 3, 2011 when they hit 12 in a loss to Harvard.
Ashley Storey made all three of the three-pointers she took against Holy Cross. Caroline Soucy also made three and Kari Brekke had a pair. Maggie Ahearn and Alli Gribbin each made one three-pointer in the game.
Kali Grimm and Caroline Soucy each had four three-pointers against Stony Brook.
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 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 134-126 overall record and grabbed sole possession of the No. 3 spot in all-time wins at UNH with the victory against UMass Lowell. She is two wins out of the No. 2 spot on the list.
Cecilia DeMarco (136-86 from 1977-86) is at No. 2 on the wins list. Kathy Sanborn (170-126 from 1986-97) is at the top of the list.
JACKIE CAME BACK
Acclaimed author and former UNH basketball captain Jackie MacMullan, '82, signed 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.
MacMullan donated $5 from each book purchased to the UNH women's basketball program.
DOUBLING UP
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.
Ashley Storey had 20 points, Kari Brekke 16, Maggie Ahearn 14, Amanda Torres 13 and Caroline Soucy 10 against Bryant.
Against Sacred Heart two years ago, Storey with 12 points and Soucy with 10 were among the players in double figures. 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.
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.
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.
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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/ Women's BasketballUNH WBB vs Binghamton 1-5-19 Highlights
Saturday, January 05
UNH Women's Basketball vs Princeton Highlights (12-29-18)
Saturday, December 29
UNH Women's Basketball vs Dartmouth Highlights (12-21-18)
Friday, December 21
UNH Women's Basketball vs Holy Cross Highlights (12-9-18)
Sunday, December 09