Closing Home Stand with B1G Matchup

Bradley Women's Basketball will host Wisconsin to close its season-opening, three-game home stand Friday night

Women's Basketball 11/17/2021 12:44:00 PM

Game 3 \| Wisconsin Badgers (1-1) at Bradley Braves (2-0)
Date	Friday, Nov. 19, 2021
Time	6:30 p.m. CT
Location	Peoria, IL
Venue (Capacity)	Renaissance Coliseum (4,200)
Social Media	Twitter: @B radleyWBB \| Instagram: @bradley_wbb

Bradley will wrap its season-opening, 3-game home stand Friday by hosting Wisconsin, just the third Big Ten Conference team to visit Renaissance Coliseum since the arena opened in 2010.

BY THE NUMBERS
3 Bradley is shooting for just the fifth 3-0 start to a season in program history and its first since the 2018-19 squad opened 9-0.
4 Bradley has won four consecutive home games, dating to the 2020-21 series sweep of Indiana State, and by an average margin of victory of 26.3 ppg.
6 Fifth-year senior guard Gabi Haack needs six 3-point field goals to become the Missouri Valley Conference all-time leader (294 by Creighton's Dayna Finch from 2001-04.
18 Haack's countdown to Bradley's all-time scoring record is down to 18 points as she enters Friday's game with 1,662 career points.
59 Bradley's eight newcomers combine to average 59.5 ppg, while the first two opponents have averaged 59.0 ppg

SERIES HISTORY
4th Meeting | Wisconsin leads, 3-0
• The series against Wisconsin dates back 40 years to the sixth game of Bradley's 1982-83 season, but the teams have not met since Wisconsin's 75-63 win Dec. 5, 1986 in Madison.
• Wisconsin won the only previous meeting between the two teams in Peoria, earning a 75-59 win Dec. 1, 1983 at the old Robertson Memorial Fieldhouse.

B1G VISITORS
• Wisconsin becomes just the third Big Ten Conference opponent to visit Renaissance Coliseum since the arena opened for the 2010-11 season
• Illinois has split its two visits to Renaissance Coliseum, while the Braves dealt Iowa a 96-88 defeat when the Hawkeyes visited RenCo Dec. 17, 2011, giving the Braves a 2-1 all-time record against the Big Ten in their current home venue.
• Of the current 14 member schools of the Big Ten Conference, six have visited Peoria for a game against the Braves.
• Bradley owns a 7-9 all-time home record against the Big Ten.

DEFENDING THE HOME COURT
• The Braves will look to extend their current 4-game home winning streak Friday night against Wisconsin.
• Since the start of the 2018-19 season, Bradley is 35-9 (.795) in its last 44 home games at Renaissance Coliseum.
• The program record for the most home wins in a 4-year stretch has stood since 1983 after the Braves posted a 38-14 (.731) record at Robertson Memorial Fieldhouse from 1979-83.
• Prior to the start of the 2018-19 season, Bradley had gone five consecutive seasons without a winning home record and the Braves had not posted a double-digit home wins total since 2008-09 (12-2).

FAST STARTS
• Bradley is shooting for just the fifth 3-0 start to a season in program history.
• In each of the previous three seasons the Braves have won their first three games, they have gone on to finish the year with a winning record.

RECORDS REVIEW
• Bradley fifth-year senior guard Gabi Haack enters Friday's game as Bradley's all-time leader in career 3-point field goals made (289), career free throws made (349) and career minutes played (3871).
• Averaging 13.7 points per game in her career, Haack is the second-leading scorer in Bradley history with 1,662 career points, just 17 behind Karen Anderson's 1,679 points from 1979-83.
• Anderson's total represents the longest-standing school scoring record among The Valley's 10 active programs (Lorri Bauman's 3,115 points from 1980-84 remain Drake's career scoring record).
• By starting her 112th consecutive game Friday night, Haack would tie the program record for games started (Jen Brown, 2003-07).
• She enters Friday's action four games played shy of tying the school record of 125 games played by MacKenzie Westcott from 2008-12.

LOOKING AHEAD
• Following Friday's clash against the Badgers, Bradley will be on the road for its next two games, Monday at Northern Illinois and Nov. 26 at Minnesota.
• After Friday's game, only two of Bradley's next 11 games will be played at home, Dec. 1 versus Tulsa and Dec. 28 against Saint Louis.

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Players Mentioned

#3 Gabi Haack: G; 5' 9"; Fifth Year

Players Mentioned

#3 Gabi Haack
: 5' 9"; Fifth Year
: G

Closing Home Stand with B1G Matchup

Bradley Women's Basketball will host Wisconsin to close its season-opening, three-game home stand Friday night

Players Mentioned

#3 Gabi Haack

Players Mentioned

#3 Gabi Haack