GAME DAY CENTRAL
Montevallo (3-1, 0-0 GSC) vs. Delta State (4-0, 0-0 GSC)
When: Saturday, Nov. 23
Where: Montevallo, Alabama
Arena: Trustmark Arena | Montevallo, Alabama
Location: 75 College Drive, Montevallo, Alabama
Tip-off: 2 p.m.
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ALL-TIME SERIES BREAKDOWN
All-Time: 1-16
Home: 0-7
Away: 0-7
Neutral: 1-2
SERIES HISTORY
- This is the 18th meeting all-time between the two teams, and the 14th since the Falcons joined NCAA Division II
- The Lady Statesmen have won 12 straight meetings in the series, dating back to Nov. 22, 1998.
- Montevallo's only win in the series came on Nov. 22, 1997, a 90-78 win for Montevallo.
- Five times in series history, the winner has been decided by 10 points or less, and in each of those five cases, Delta State has won. Three of those five games have come in the five most recent games in series history.
TEAM HIGHLIGHTS
MONTEVALLO
- Shyan Flack and Kiya Sain have been a two-headed monster offensively for the Falcons this year, averaging 17.3 and 15.3 points per game, respectively.
- Flack has shot the ball at a 62.5% clip in the first four games of the season.
- Sain has made all 14 of her free throws this season, and Kourtnie Smith has converted 17-of-22 (77.3%) of her tosses.
- Flack is also averaging 7.3 rebounds per game, with Smith chipping in 6.0 rebounds per game.
- Freshman Marisa Snodgrass has dished out 17 assists - an average of 4.3 per game - in her first four collegiate games.
DELTA STATE
- The Lady Statesmen have three players who are averaging in double-figures - Zyaire Ewing (16.5 ppg), Quantesha Patterson (15.5 ppg), and Nia Johnson (14.0 ppg).
- Ewing leads the Lady Statesmen at the foul line, where she is 22-of-26 (84.6%) for the season.
- Patterson in Delta State's leading rebounder, pulling in an average of 13.5 boards per contest. Ewing is also averaging 9.3 rebounds.
- Ernesha Chatman leads Delta State with 5.5 assists per game, having recorded 22 in four games.
- Ewing is averaging nearly two blocks per game as well, having swatted seven shots in the first four contests for DSU.
- Johnson has pilfered 17 steals in the season's first four games, an average of 4.3 per game.
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