Game Notes
The Fairfield University women's basketball team will Pack the House Pink presented by SWIM Across the Sound on Saturday when it hosts Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) foe Loyola Unviersity Maryland. The game, to be played at Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard, will tip-off at 3:30 p.m.
Join the Stags as they helps raise awareness of breast cancer at the game. SWIM Across the Sound has information tables in the lobby of Webster Bank Arena, as well as its mobile mammography truck outside the building for free screenings. Help support the Stags and their efforts in the WBCA Pink Zone by participating in the raffles available in the lobby. All proceeds benefit SWIM Across the Sound. Fans should purchase tickets using the code SWIM to have 50 percent of their ticket purchase also donated to SWIM.
Fairfield will honor the 2000-01 Women's Basketball team at halftime of Saturday's game. The Stags are the only team in program history to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament after posting wins over the likes of Boston College, Miami and Cal during the regular season. Fairfield, which won a program-record 25 games that season, played Utah in the first round of the tournament in Salt Lake City.
Fans that are not able to make the game can
watch the contest on-line or listen on
WVOF 88.5 FM as John Cummings and Maria Conlon call all the action.
Livestats is also available for the game.
The Stags, winners of back-to-back games, are 17-8 overall and 10-4 in league play, currently in fourth place. The Greyhounds have won six straight games to improve to 15-10 on the season and in second place in the MAAC at 12-2. Loyola defeated Fairfield 54-52 when the teams met on January 14 at Reitz Arena.
Today's game is also part of the Jesuit Basketball Spotlight (JBS). The JBS is a nationwide effort to identify basketball games between Jesuit schools and, through those games, bring greater positive awareness to Jesuit education and mission. This project was developed by the AJCU in response to member institutions wanting to spread the word of Jesuit higher education through the more than 90 basketball games in which Jesuit institutions play. Fairfield is 4-1 in JBS action this season.
Taryn Johnson has hit 13-17 from the field the last two games and scored a total of 36 points. Her 76.5 field goal percentage in the two games has raised her season shooting percentage to 52.4 percent, which leads the league. Johnson is 10-15 from the free throw line in the two games as well.
Loyola snapped a nine-game series losing streak by beating Fairfield 54-52 when the teams met at Reitz Arena on January 14th. Now meeting for the 50th time, the Stags have a 33-16 lead in the series and have not lost at home in the last four contests, including a 63-51 triumph at WBA on January 28, 2007, the last time the teams met in the building. Loyola's last road win in the series came at WBA on February 25, 2006, 78-72.
Loyola has won six consecutive games and is 15-10 on the year and 12-2 in league play. Miriam McKenzie is leading the team at 13.9 points per game, shooting 40.5 percent from the field. The Greyhounds are the only team in the league with three players scoring in double-figures as Erica DiClemente is averaging 11.9 points and Katie Sheahin, 11.1 points, per game. The Greyhounds are +0.3 for the year in scoring margin, averaging 58.0 points per game, but are -2.7 on the boards and -0.4 in turnover margin.
Fairfield is one of three MAAC women's team's that rank in the top-five in the nation in scoring defense through games of February 17, ranking fourth at 50.3 points per game. Manhattan leads the country at 49.4 points a game, followed by Connecticut at 49.5. West Virginia is third, 0.1 points per game ahead of the Stags. Marist is fifth on the list, having allowed 1258 points, one more than the Stags.
