PEORIA, Ill. – The Bradley women's basketball team closes out a brief two-game home stand Sunday with a 2 p.m. game against Missouri State. Sunday's game will be Alumni Day at Renaissance Coliseum with Bradley women's basketball alumni in attendance recognized during the contest.
Bradley looks to rebound from a 61-45 home loss to preseason favorite Wichita State Friday when the Braves take on the Lady Bears Sunday. The teams have split the regular-season series in four of the last five years. Missouri State owns a slim 7-6 advantage since 2008-09, but the series is knotted at 9-9 over the last eight seasons. The Lady Bears have alternated wins and losses each of the last nine games after an 87-57 win at Loyola Friday for their first road win of the season.
A subscription video stream will be available at BradleyBraves.com, in addition to links to live stats and an audio stream of the WIRL 1290 AM/102.7 FM broadcast.
Senior Michelle Young (Woodbury, Minn./Woodbury) was 6-for-7 from the free throw line Friday against Wichita State and now leads the Missouri Valley Conference in made free throws with 62. Young needs seven made free throws to move into the top 10 in career free throws at Bradley and is also closing in on the top 20 in career scoring on The Hilltop, needing nine points to tie Ashley Chelleen for 20th.
Sophomore Leti Lerma (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine) has hauled down 11 or more rebounds in each of the last two games and has averaged 12.0 points and 13.0 rebounds per game during that span. The first Bradley player to tally 10 boards in back-to-back MVC games since Katie Yohn in 2012-13, Lerma is the first underclassmen with back-to-back outings with 10 or more rebounds since Sonya Harris in March of 2009.
Bradley is scoring a league-high 25.8 percent of its points at the charity stripe and the Braves lead the conference in free throw percentage at 72 percent. Young is third in the Valley in free throw percentage at 81.6 percent.
Bradley opens a three-game road swing to wrap up the first half of the league-slate next Sunday (Jan. 25) with a 2 p.m. game at Loyola.
