EVANSVILLE, Ind. - After 29 regular season contests, the University of Evansville women's basketball team heads into a new opportunity with a matchup with No. 7 seed Loyola at 7:02 p.m. on Thursday night in the opening round of Hoops in the Heartland in Moline, Ill.

GAME INFORMATION
No. 10 Evansville vs. No. 7 Loyola
March 14, 2019, 7:02 p.m.
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Evansville Game Notes
Loyola Game Notes

Last Game: Southern Illinois 80, Evansville 60 (Evansville, Ind., March 9)

• On Senior Day, the Aces battled back from a 21-point deficit, but fell short in an 80-60 loss to Southern Illinois on Saturday afternoon.
• Evansville trailed by as many as 21 points in the third quarter, but cut its deficit to nine early in the fourth quarter of Saturday's loss.
• Senior Kerri Gasper recorded her fifth 20 point game of the season with a 21-point performance against SIU.
• Tying a career-high, senior Marley Miller tallied nine rebounds to lead the Aces on Saturday afternoon.
• Marking her second-straight start, senior Tattenai Hall started her senior day contest against SIU, seeing 13 minutes of action.
• Freshman Anna Newman notched a team-best four assists in just 19 minutes on the court.
• Evansville succeeded in getting to the charity stripe, attempting 20 free-throws against SIU.

Next Opponent: vs. Loyola

• Evansville and Loyola are meeting for the 37th time in series history.
• In the last meeting between the two sides, the Ramblers earned a 71-51 win over Evansville on Feb. 7, 2019 in Evansville, Ind..
• The Aces are looking for their first win in the series with Loyola since a Mar. 2, 2017 when Evansville captured a 81-50 victory over the Ramblers in Chicago, Ill..
• Evansville has won five of the last 12 matchupes, but Loyola has won four-straight in the series.

Eight-Nine Magic

• Evansville has twice captured the MVC Tournament title entering this weekend.
• The two tournament championships came 10 years apart in 1998-99 and 2008-09.
• In the 2008-09 MVC Tournament, Evansville became the lowest seed in MVC Tournament history to win the tournament as the No. 9 seed.
• This weekend marks the 10th and 20th anniversaries of Evansville's MVC Tournament championships.

 

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