Starting 5: Women's Basketball vs. Stony Brook

Tuesday, November 16

Piscataway, NJ

11 AM ET

Rutgers University

Stony Brook

Nov 15 | Women's Basketball

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The five things to know before the Scarlet Knights face the Seawolves at Jersey Mike's Arena

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Rutgers women's basketball (3-0) hosts Stony Brook (3-0) in a battle of early unbeatens on Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 11 a.m. inside Jersey Mike's Arena and live on B1G+.

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Watch on B1G+ (Play-by-play: Dom Savino; Analyst: Dominque Patrick)
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The 5 Things to Know

1. THE SCOUT

Stony Brook is off to a perfect 3-0 start with wins over Delaware State, Longwood, and St. John's while scoring 80.3 points per game and outscoring foes by an average of 24.0 points per game.
Senior guard Anastasia Warren is scoring 18.0 points per game with a .500 mark from three-point distance (7-of-14) and 6.7 rebounds per contest. She was named the America East Player of the Week on Monday.
Gigi Gonzales (13.3ppg), India Pagan (12.0), and Earlette Scott (10.7ppg) join Warren as the four Seawolves averaging double-figures.
The Seawolves are sharing the ball well with 20.7 assists per game, while also dominating the boards with a +11.4 rebounding advantage.

2. THE HEAD-TO-HEAD

3. 55 ALIVE & WELL

Rutgers ranked fourth in the NCAA last season in steals per game, and with a new-look roster, continues the trend into 2021-22 with a No. 4 national rank with 42 total steals through Nov. 14. Sayawni Lassiter leads the defense with 4.0 steals per game, ranking 17th in the country. The 41.7ppg scoring defense ranks 14th in the nation and tops in the Big Ten as Rutgers looks to lead the conference in that defensive metric for the third consecutive season.

4. WHO'S IT GONNA BE TODAY?

It's been three games, and three different starting lineups for the Scarlet Knights. In all three victories, no less than 10 different Rutgers players have contributed to the scoring, and all three games had a different scoring leader (Liz Martino, Stephanie Guihon, and Victoria Morris). Those three join Sakima Walker, Osh Brown, and Sayawni Lassiter as the six Scarlet Knights averaging 6.0 or more points per game through three contests.

5. MIKE'S WAY

When RU takes the court at the newly named Jersey Mike's Arena, the program will carry a 231-51 record on its home court since the 2002-03 season. The Scarlet Knights are 52-8 at Jersey Mike's Arena over the past four-plus seasons.

Rutgers won all four of its regular season non-conference games last season and have won 13 consecutive regular season non-conference contests since the 2019-20 season. Rutgers has won its last 12 regular season dating back to last winter after winning nine straight in the Big Ten last season, the program's longest winning streak since joining the conference. The Scarlet Knights had their first nine-game conference winning streak since the perfect 16-0 Big East season of 2005-06, which was an actual 24-game Big East streak going back to '04-05.

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