EVANSVILLE - After a hard-fought contest with Murray State on Tuesday, the University of Evansville women's basketball team travels east to take on Miami (Ohio) on Saturday at Noon (CT) in Oxford, Ohio.
 

Evansville at Miami (Ohio) | Sat., Dec. 4 | Noon (CT)
Site | Location	Millett Hall | Oxford, Ohio
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Previewing the Matchup: Miami (Ohio)

• Evansville and Miami (Ohio) are meeting for the  fifth time in series history with the two sides splitting the four total meetings in the all-time series.
• The two sides last met on Dec. 19, 2020 inside Meeks Family Fieldhouse with the Aces capturing a 66-60 win over the Redhawks.
• Evansville and Miami (Ohio) have only won at home in the series.
• The Redhawks are familiar with The Valley, playing MVC foes in two of their five contests to open the season. Miami opened the regular season with an 85-60 win on the road at Valparaiso on Nov. 10 and most recently fell to Loyola Chicago on Nov. 28, 69-52.
• Miami enters the weekend with a 2-3 record, falling in back-to-back contests to Northern Kentucky and Loyola Chicago.
• Evansville was right at its season scoring average on Tuesday night, scoring 77 points as the Aces sit 39th in the nation and best in the MVC, averaging 77.3 points per game.
• The trip to Oxford, Ohio begins a stretch of road matches that spans six of the next seven contests for UE.

Last Game: Murray State 85, Evansville 77

• Battling back in the third quarter, the University of Evansville women's basketball team was unable to complete the comeback in an 85-77 loss to Murray State on Tuesday night inside Meeks Family Fieldhouse in Evansville.
• Leading the group of four double-figure scorers for the Aces was senior Myia Clark with a season-high 19 points, while adding six boards in 28 minutes of action. Just one shy of Clark's total was junior Abby Feit with the 48th double-figure scoring performance of her career, finishing just one off of another double-double with nine boards, while adding four blocks. Round-out the double-digit scorers were junior Je'Naiya Davis, who followed her 35-point outburst against Purdue Fort Wayne with 13 points on Tuesday, and freshman Elly Morgan, who tallied 12 points for the second double-figure scoring game of her career. On the opponent side, the Racers were led by a pair of high-scorers in Macey Turley (29 points) and Katelyn Young (28), who combined for 57 of Murray State's 85 points in the win.
• An intense back-and-forth battle opened the contest with both side barely missing a shot inside the game's first 10 minutes. Building an early 10-4 lead on triples by Celine Dupont and Elly Morgan, Evansville opened the game with the hot hand, but Murray was close to follow. The Racers knocked-down their final five three-point attempts of the opening quarter, helping Murray own a 25-21 lead following the first period in a high-scoring first 600 seconds.
• Layups from Clark and Davis pushed the Aces within a pair to open the second quarter, but the hot shooting from Murray continued as the Racers ran out to a lead as large as 12 in the third. With 42 seconds left in the half, Clark hit another layup, giving her 11 at the break, to bring Evansville's deficit to just 10 at 45-35 at the half.
• Five-straight Evansville points out of the break, punctuated by a Clark three, helped fire-up the Meeks Family Fieldhouse crowd in the early part of the third. A three by Feit with 3:15 gone in the third quarter helped Evansville push as close as three, but it was the Racers again who responded to the pressure, increasing their lead to 62-54 as the period came to a close.
• As has been true all season, the Aces have never let an opponent get a comfortable lead. Facing a mounting foul problem and an 11-point deficit, Evansville showed its fight, trimming the Racers lead midway through the final 10 minutes. Trailing by seven with just over five minutes left in the game, Feit knocked-down a triple that sent the crowd into a frenzy, followed by Evansville's pressure creating a Murray turnover and a Racer timeout. With the lead hovering around five later in the period, Murray held-off any final charge from the Aces, holding on for the 85-77 win.
• The Aces took care of the basketball on Tuesday night, committing just six turnovers, the fewest an Evansville team has given away since turning the ball over just five times against Bradley on Feb. 10, 2019.

Forcing Turnovers

• Evansville has been exceptional this season at putting its opponents in difficult spots and forcing turnovers.
• The Aces are 29th in the nation in turnovers forced per game, with UE's opposition averaging 22.3 turnovers per game.
• On the other side, Evansville has done well to not let its fast pace of play result in high turnover numbers for itself, holding a 6.17 turnover margin, the 28th-best margin in the nation.

Feit Approaches Milestone

• Junior Abby Feit is nearing the first of what will likely be multiple milestones in her career.
• The Normal, Ill. native sits just 17 rebounds away from reaching the 500-board mark.
• Feit is also poised to reach 1,000 points later this season, sitting just 134 away from that milestone.

 

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