Bluejays Take on Top-Seeded Redbirds in MVC Semifinals
3/14/2008 11:45:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Supplemental Creighton Notes
#4 Creighton (20-10) vs. #1
State Farm MVC Tournament Semifinals
Saturday, March 15, 2008 ● 1:05 p.m.
Television: FSN Midwest
Radio: 88.9 FM, www.kvss.com
? Creighton is now 15-14 all-time in the MVC Tournament, including 12-9 in true neutral site contests and 2-3 as the No. 4 seed. CU's win over
? Creighton has won its last two MVC Tournament games as the lower seed (defeating No. 3 seed Indiana State and No. 2 seed Illinois State as the No. 6 seed last year). The Jays have won three of their last four MVC Tournament games as the lower seed ? also defeated No. 8 seed SIU as the No. 9 seed in 2006.
? Creighton has never appeared in back-to-back MVC Tournament title games. The Jays are aiming to appear in their fifth MVC Tournament championship game (1994, 1999, 2002, 2007).
? Creighton is now 5-5 at the MVC Tournament under Jim Flanery.
? Flanery is now 108-78 (.581) in his career, including 10-4 all-time against
? Creighton is aiming to defeat
? Creighton defeated
? Sam Schuett posted her team-leading third double-double of the season in CU's win over
? In four career MVC Tournament games, Sam Schuett is now averaging 12.0 points, 9.3 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game.
? Schuett's 9.3 rebounds per MVC Tournament game in her career are a school record. Schuett set a school MVC Tournament record with 27 rebounds in three games last year.
? Schuett has started CU's last five games and the Jays are now 9-3 on the season when she starts.
? Ally Thrall played 38 minutes in CU's quarterfinal win over
? Thrall scored seven points yesterday to move her career total to 1,093 and into a tie with Jenny Olson for 17th in school history.
? Thrall's three-point field goal yesterday gives her 152 in her career, now alone in sixth place in school history.
? Creighton out-rebounded Missouri State 50-37 in the quarterfinals, the seventh time CU has had at least a plus-12 rebounding margin this year and the 13th game the Bluejays have out-rebounded an opponent by at least 10.
? Creighton led the MVC with a plus-7.9 rebounding margin in MVC games this year.
? The Bluejays shot just 29 percent in their win over
? Creighton made six three-pointers in its win over
? CU is averaging 17.3 turnovers per game this year, but just 9.7 per game in its last three.
? Kristina Voss did not score in CU's win over
? Creighton captured its 20th win of the season in the quarterfinals, the third 20-win season in six seasons under Jim Flanery and Creighton's fourth 20-win season in the last seven years overall. Flanery's predecessor, Connie Yori, had three 20 win seasons in her 10 years at Creighton.
? The Bluejays' 20-win season and winning record this year snaps CU's two-year streak of losing records. CU has never had three-straight losing seasons in school history.
Against the Redbirds
? Creighton is 24-12 all-time against
? CU is 3-0 all-time against
o W, 75-44 in
o W, 70-54 in
o W, 59-56 in
? Jim Flanery is 10-4 all-time against
? Creighton has won the last three meetings between the teams, including a regular-season sweep this season. ISU had won the previous four meetings before CU's three-game streak.
? Creighton has won 11 of the last 15 meetings with
? Creighton's 75-71 win over
? Kelsey Woodard led the Bluejays with 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting in the first meeting between the teams this year. She averaged 19.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game against the Redbirds this year, while making 16-of-27 (.593) shots from the field.
? Along with Woodard's 20 points at ISU, Sara Cain, Kristina Voss and Ally Thrall each had 10 points.
? CU out-rebounded the Redbirds 33-27 in the first meeting and then out-worked ISU on the glass 43-35 in the second meeting, for an average of 38-31 rebounding edge (+7.0).
? The Bluejays needed overtime to top ISU 80-77 in
? Ally Thrall scored a career-high 26 points on 9-of-23 shooting from the floor in CU's home win over ISU. On the season she averaged 18 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists vs.
? Sara Cain averaged 12.5 points and team-high 8.0 rebounds against ISU this year.
? Cain pulled down a career-high 14 rebounds and added 15 points for her first and only career double-double against ISU in
? CU limited two-time MVC Player of the Year Kristi Cirone to just eight points on 4-of-12 shooting in
? Thrall had 10 points, five assists and no turnovers in 40 minutes against Cirone and ISU in
