No. 22/24 WBB Travels to LSU
Nov 20 | Women's Basketball
Nov. 20, 2014
? Senior forward Betnijah Laney has had two straight double-doubles to start off the 2014-15 campaign. She poured in 14 points and 13 rebounds against the Huskies on Tuesday. It was Laney's 17th double-double of her career.
? Redshirt junior guard Briyona Canty also had a double-double with 12 points and a new career-high 10 assists.
? Rutgers returns all 10 letterwinners and its five starters from its WNIT Championship run. The squad also adds two freshmen and two JUCO transfers.
? The Scarlet Knights enter their first season of Big Ten play. The Big Ten had 11 of the current 14 members reach postseason play.
ABOUT LSU
Sophomore guard Raigyne Moncrief leads the Tigers at 11.3 points and 7.3 assists per game. Junior guard Akilah Bethel is second on the stat sheet at 8.3 points and 4.3 rebounds per game and is followed by freshman forward Ann Jones at 6.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per contest.
Former Tennessee standout Nikki Caldwell is in her fourth season at the helm of the LSU program.
SUE GUNTER CLASSIC
With LSU flirting with a double-double lead with 12 minutes left in the game, Rutgers made its first rally of the second half. The Scarlet Knights trailed, 35-44, but proceeded to use a 12-4 run to cut its deficit down to one. Kahleah Copper scored eight of RU's 12 points during the run as the Scarlet Knights were behind only 48-47 with 7:19 on the clock.
After a pair of free throws by the Tigers' Raigyne Moncrief had LSU leading, 64-54, with just over 1:30 left, Rutgers made another run. Rutgers outscored LSU, 9-4, in the span of 1:15 to pull within three. Moncrief sunk another two attempts from the line to put her team ahead, 68-61, but on the ensuing possession, Copper collected her own rebound off a missed layup to put the ball up and in, cutting down the RU deficit to five, 68-63, with 34 seconds remaining.
Copper gave possession right back to the Scarlet Knights on a steal, resulting in Syessence Davis going to the line. Davis sunk both free throws as RU trailed just 68-65 with 24 seconds left.
The Scarlet Knights quickly stopped the clock with a foul, sending Moncrief to the line once more. Moncrief headed to the line having gone 14-of-16 from the stripe, but missed both attempts. Off the second miss, the ball went out-of-bounds on the baseline with Rutgers having a shot at tying the game with 23 seconds left in the game.
LSU's Moncrief hit one-of-two from the line for the game's final 69-65 margin.
RU had three in double figures led by Copper's 16 points. Canty finished the game with 13 points while Betnijah Laney returned to the starting line-up for 16 points and a game-high eight rebounds.
LSU was led by Moncrief's 27 points, including 15 points from the free throw line. Theresa Plaisance added in 16 and Shanece McKinney poured in 10 from off the bench in the win.
ACTIVE WIN STREAKS:
With her 23 points against the Hawks, Scaife had her eighth 20+ point game of her career and 29th double digit scoring effort. Scaife shot 9-of-13 from the floor, including a perfect 6-of-6 in the second half, and 5-of-6 from the free throw line.
Scaife has led the Scarlet Knights in scoring in four-straight games, dating back to last year's WNIT run.
FROM SIXTH WOMAN TO STARTING LINEUP
Canty captured her second career double-double with 12 points and a new career-high 10 assists in the win over Northeastern on Tuesday night. It was the second straight game the redshirt junior guard had reset her career mark in assists. She performed her first double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds in RU's WNIT semifinal win at USF.
The redshirt junior guard also captured 16 points in the Scarlet Knights' American Athletic Conference semifinal appearance against eventual national champion, UConn.
DOUBLE DISHING
BETTING DOUBLE
She registered the first double-double performance of the year with 10 points and 13 rebounds in the Friday night win over St. Joseph's and followed with 14 points and 13 boards in the victory over Northeastern.
Laney currently has 17 double-doubles in her career.
The Clayton, Delaware native captured 15 double-doubles last season, the most double figure scoring and rebounding games since Kia Vaughn, currently with the WNBA's Washington Mystics, had 12 double-doubles during the 2006-07 season.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Betnijah Laney and Briyona Canty are the first Scarlet Knight duo since Rachel Hollivay (26 pts, 13 reb.) and Kahleah Copper (23 pts, 13 reb) against Howard on Nov. 22, 2013 to have two double-doubles in a game.
BLOCK PARTY
She currently has 155 career blocks and needs 23 more blocks to move into fifth all-time on RU's career blocked shots list.
Hollivay ended last year with 127 rejections and is third (men or women) in blocks in a single season. Only Hamady Ndiaye (2009-10) and Roy Hinson (1982-83) on the men's side have blocked more shots in a single season, swatting away 145 and 144, respectively.
LIVING IN THE PAINT
RU poured in 34 points inside against St. Joseph's in the season opener and had 36 points versus Northeastern on Tuesday night.
RU scored 30 or more points in the paint in 27 of its 37 games last season. Rutgers registered 40 or more points inside seven times during the 2013-14 campaign, including a season-high of 52 against Wagner (Dec. 13) and UCF (Feb. 15).
400-WIN CLUB
All-Time Rutgers WBB Coaching Records (By Wins)
CENTURY OF APPEARANCES
Classmates Betnijah Laney and Syessence Davis will be making their 100th career appearance on Saturday at LSU.
TURNOVERS
On Tuesday against Northeastern, RU forced 22 turnover resulting in 23 points for the Scarlet Knights.
RU forced the opposition into at least 20 or more turnovers 15 times in 37 games a year ago.
Conversely, the Scarlet Knights committed fewer than 20 turnovers in 30 games, fewer than 15 miscues in 22 games and less than 10 three times.
UP NEXT Rutgers remains on the road, but with a much shorter trip. The Scarlet Knights travel to Staten Island, N.Y. to meet Wagner on Tuesday, Nov. 25 at 7 p.m.
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| Game Three: #22/24 Rutgers at LSU | |
| Date | Saturday, November 22, 2014 |
| Time | 3 p.m. ET |
| Location | Baton Rouge, La.| Maravich Center |
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TIP OFF
? The 2014 WNIT Champions are off to a 2-0 start following wins at home against St. Joseph's (76-52) and Northeastern (74-60) and hit the road for first time this season traveling to Baton Rouge, La. to meet up with LSU. The Scarlet Knights currently have the longest active win streak in the country.
? Five Scarlet Knights reached double figures in RU's 74-60 win over Northeastern on Tuesday night. Sophomore guard Tyler Scaife led all scorers, while senior Betnijah Laney and redshirt junior Briyona Canty each notched double-doubles.
? Senior forward Betnijah Laney has had two straight double-doubles to start off the 2014-15 campaign. She poured in 14 points and 13 rebounds against the Huskies on Tuesday. It was Laney's 17th double-double of her career.
? Redshirt junior guard Briyona Canty also had a double-double with 12 points and a new career-high 10 assists.
? Rutgers returns all 10 letterwinners and its five starters from its WNIT Championship run. The squad also adds two freshmen and two JUCO transfers.
? The Scarlet Knights enter their first season of Big Ten play. The Big Ten had 11 of the current 14 members reach postseason play.
ABOUT LSU
LSU enters Saturday's contest at 2-2 as the Tigers are coming off a 51-45 loss against Tulane. The Tigers open up the 2014-15 season with five straight home contests and host Rutgers in the Sue Gunter Classic, in honor of the late LSU Hall of Fame coach.
Sophomore guard Raigyne Moncrief leads the Tigers at 11.3 points and 7.3 assists per game. Junior guard Akilah Bethel is second on the stat sheet at 8.3 points and 4.3 rebounds per game and is followed by freshman forward Ann Jones at 6.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per contest.
Former Tennessee standout Nikki Caldwell is in her fourth season at the helm of the LSU program.
SUE GUNTER CLASSIC
Sue Gunter, a 2005 Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer, was the LSU head coach from 1982-2004. She became the third women's coach in history to reach 700 career victories as she finished with 708 wins. She won 442 games in 22 seasons at LSU, guiding the Lady Tigers to 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, one NCAA Final Four, four NCAA Elite Eight appearances and two SEC Tournament title. She passed away in 2005.
LAST TIME VS. LSU
The Rutgers women's basketball team opened up the Barclays Women's Basketball Invitational on Nov. 29, 2013 falling just short of a Top 25 win with a 69-65 loss to No. 15/17 LSU.
RU rallied from as many as 10 down with 1:38 left to pull within three in the closing moments.
With LSU flirting with a double-double lead with 12 minutes left in the game, Rutgers made its first rally of the second half. The Scarlet Knights trailed, 35-44, but proceeded to use a 12-4 run to cut its deficit down to one. Kahleah Copper scored eight of RU's 12 points during the run as the Scarlet Knights were behind only 48-47 with 7:19 on the clock.
RU trailed, 50-49, after freshman Tyler Scaife fed Briyona Canty for a fast break layup, but LSU turned the tides going on a run of its own. An 11-3 run by the Tigers gave LSU its first double digit lead of the game, 62-52 with 2:20 remaining.
After a pair of free throws by the Tigers' Raigyne Moncrief had LSU leading, 64-54, with just over 1:30 left, Rutgers made another run. Rutgers outscored LSU, 9-4, in the span of 1:15 to pull within three. Moncrief sunk another two attempts from the line to put her team ahead, 68-61, but on the ensuing possession, Copper collected her own rebound off a missed layup to put the ball up and in, cutting down the RU deficit to five, 68-63, with 34 seconds remaining.
Copper gave possession right back to the Scarlet Knights on a steal, resulting in Syessence Davis going to the line. Davis sunk both free throws as RU trailed just 68-65 with 24 seconds left.
The Scarlet Knights quickly stopped the clock with a foul, sending Moncrief to the line once more. Moncrief headed to the line having gone 14-of-16 from the stripe, but missed both attempts. Off the second miss, the ball went out-of-bounds on the baseline with Rutgers having a shot at tying the game with 23 seconds left in the game.
Canty took a three-pointer at the top of the arc, but if fell short of the basket.
LSU's Moncrief hit one-of-two from the line for the game's final 69-65 margin.
RU had three in double figures led by Copper's 16 points. Canty finished the game with 13 points while Betnijah Laney returned to the starting line-up for 16 points and a game-high eight rebounds.
LSU was led by Moncrief's 27 points, including 15 points from the free throw line. Theresa Plaisance added in 16 and Shanece McKinney poured in 10 from off the bench in the win.
STREAKING
After Stanford halted Connecticut's win streak at 47 with a 88-86 win on Monday night, Rutgers took over as has having the nation's longest active win streak.
ACTIVE WIN STREAKS:
8 Games - Rutgers
Streak Start: 3/29 - vs. Delaware (WNIT First Round)
Next Game: 11/22 - at LSU
Last Loss: 3/9 - vs. UConn (AAC Semifinals)
6 Games - Illinois - Chicago
Streak Start: 3/19 - vs. IPFW (WBI First Round)
Next Game 11/22 - at Miami (Oh)
Last Loss: 3/14 - L, 68-59 - Wisconsin-GB (Horizon Tournament)
NO SOPHOMORE SLUMP
Tyler Scaife, last year's American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year, opened her sophomore season with a game-high 23 points in RU's 76-52 win over St. Joseph's and a team-leading 15 points in the 74-60 victory over Northeastern.
With her 23 points against the Hawks, Scaife had her eighth 20+ point game of her career and 29th double digit scoring effort. Scaife shot 9-of-13 from the floor, including a perfect 6-of-6 in the second half, and 5-of-6 from the free throw line.
Scaife has led the Scarlet Knights in scoring in four-straight games, dating back to last year's WNIT run.
FROM SIXTH WOMAN TO STARTING LINEUP
Briyona Canty, who served as Rutgers' "sixth woman" a year ago, has a successful start at point guard for the Scarlet Knights in her first two games of 2014-15.
Canty captured her second career double-double with 12 points and a new career-high 10 assists in the win over Northeastern on Tuesday night. It was the second straight game the redshirt junior guard had reset her career mark in assists. She performed her first double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds in RU's WNIT semifinal win at USF.
In the season opener against St. Joseph's Canty tied her career-high in points (16) and also added a then career-high eight assists.
The redshirt junior guard also captured 16 points in the Scarlet Knights' American Athletic Conference semifinal appearance against eventual national champion, UConn.
DOUBLE DISHING
Briyona Canty's 10 assists in RU's Tuesday night win over Northeastern marked the first double digit assist game for a Scarlet Knight since Syessence Davis dished out the ball 10 times against Providence on Jan. 16, 2013.
BETTING DOUBLE
Senior forward Betnijah Laney has opened 2014-15 with two straight double-double performances.
She registered the first double-double performance of the year with 10 points and 13 rebounds in the Friday night win over St. Joseph's and followed with 14 points and 13 boards in the victory over Northeastern.
Laney currently has 17 double-doubles in her career.
The Clayton, Delaware native captured 15 double-doubles last season, the most double figure scoring and rebounding games since Kia Vaughn, currently with the WNBA's Washington Mystics, had 12 double-doubles during the 2006-07 season.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
The Scarlet Knights finished with five in double figures on Tuesday night against Northeastern, including Betnijah Laney and Briyona Canty with double-doubles.
Rutgers last had five Scarlet Knights in double figures in its win over Wagner on Dec. 20, 2013.
Betnijah Laney and Briyona Canty are the first Scarlet Knight duo since Rachel Hollivay (26 pts, 13 reb.) and Kahleah Copper (23 pts, 13 reb) against Howard on Nov. 22, 2013 to have two double-doubles in a game.
BLOCK PARTY
Rachel Hollivay swatted away five Hawk shots in RU's season opener. It was Hollivay's 24th game with three or more blocks
She currently has 155 career blocks and needs 23 more blocks to move into fifth all-time on RU's career blocked shots list.
Hollivay ended last year with 127 rejections and is third (men or women) in blocks in a single season. Only Hamady Ndiaye (2009-10) and Roy Hinson (1982-83) on the men's side have blocked more shots in a single season, swatting away 145 and 144, respectively.
LIVING IN THE PAINT
Rutgers continues to dominate the paint just like they did last season.
RU poured in 34 points inside against St. Joseph's in the season opener and had 36 points versus Northeastern on Tuesday night.
RU scored 30 or more points in the paint in 27 of its 37 games last season. Rutgers registered 40 or more points inside seven times during the 2013-14 campaign, including a season-high of 52 against Wagner (Dec. 13) and UCF (Feb. 15).
400-WIN CLUB
Head coach C. Vivian Stringer won her 400th career victory "On The Banks" at Houston on Feb. 11, 2014. Stringer needs 25 more wins to surpass Women's Basketball Hall of Famer Theresa Grentz as RU's all-time winningest women's basketball coach.
All-Time Rutgers WBB Coaching Records (By Wins)
Theresa Grentz - 434-150/ (1977-95) 19 seasons
C. Vivian Stringer - 411-205/(1995-present) 20 seasons
Ellen Johns - 6-5/(1974-75) One season
Dottie McCrea - 5-9/(1975-76) One season
CENTURY OF APPEARANCES
Senior center Christa Evans made her 100th appearance as a Scarlet Knight in Tuesday night's 74-60 win over Northeastern.
Classmates Betnijah Laney and Syessence Davis will be making their 100th career appearance on Saturday at LSU.
TURNOVERS
The Scarlet Knights committed just 11 turnovers in the opener last Friday. Conversely, the Hawks had 21 miscues leading to 24 points for Rutgers.
On Tuesday against Northeastern, RU forced 22 turnover resulting in 23 points for the Scarlet Knights.
RU forced the opposition into at least 20 or more turnovers 15 times in 37 games a year ago.
Conversely, the Scarlet Knights committed fewer than 20 turnovers in 30 games, fewer than 15 miscues in 22 games and less than 10 three times.
UP NEXT
Follow Rutgers women's basketball on Facebook (www.facebook.com/RutgersWBB ), Twitter (www.twitter.com/RutgersWBB ) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/RutgersWBB ) for all of the latest news and updates. Fans also receive timely information, including special offers and giveaways throughout the year on both social media outlets along with www.ScarletKnights.com.
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