Women's Basketball Looks to Exend Unbeaten Start in First Road Game

The 3-0 Braves visit in-state rival Northern Illinois Monday night

Women's Basketball 11/21/2021 3:13:00 PM

Game 4 \| Bradley Braves (3-0) at Northern Illinois Huskies (1-1)
Date	Monday, Nov. 22, 2021
Time	6:00 p.m. CT
Location	DeKalb, IL
Venue (Capacity)	Convocation Center (9,100)
Social Media	Twitter: @B radleyWBB \| Instagram: @bradley_wbb

After sweeping its three-game home stand to open the season, Bradley will hit the road for the first time Monday by paying a visit to in-state rival Northern Illinois.

BY THE NUMBERS
2 Fifth-year senior guard Gabi Haack needs two 3-point field goals to become the all-time leader in MVC Women's Basketball history.
4 Bradley is seeking the fourth 4-0 start to a season in the program's 47-year history.
18.7 Bradley has won its first three games by an average of 18.7 points, the second-best margin of victory through three games in program history (20.3 in 2018-19).
23 The combo of freshman guard Caroline Waite (13) and Haack (10) have combined for 23 3-point field goals in the first three games (7.7 per game).
113 Haack is expected to start her 113th career game, all in succession, Monday night, which will set the program record for career games started.

SERIES HISTORY
21st Meeting • Northern Illinois leads, 12-8
• The series against in-state rival Northern Illinois dates back to the 1978-79 season.
• Bradley is making its 10th trip to DeKalb, where the Huskies own a 7-2 series edge.
• The Braves snapped a 5-game series losing skid last season, earning a 79-71 win Dec. 13, 2020 at Renaissance Coliseum.
• The teams met every season from 2006-17 with the Huskies taking eight of those 12 matchups.
• Bradley head coach Andrea Gorski is 1-2 in her three games against Northern Illinois, while Huskies head coach Lisa Carlsen is 3-1 against the Braves.
• Bradley is looking to end a 6-game road skid against Mid-American Conference teams since the Braves knocked off both Northern Illinois (50-45) and Central Michigan (86-79) on the road during the 2011-12 season.

CARLSEN CONNECTION
• Northern Illinois head coach Lisa Carlsen began her college basketball coaching career at Omaha, where she was an assistant to former Braves head coach Paula Buscher for two seasons (1998-2000), before taking over the Mavericks program when Buscher came to Bradley.

FAST STARTS
• Now off to the fifth 3-0 start in the program's 47-year history, Bradley is shooting for just the fourth 4-0 start to a season in program history.
• With a win Monday night, sixth-year Bradley head coach Andrea Gorski would become the first coach in program history to twice lead the Braves to a 4-0 season start.

ROAD TRIPPIN'
• After opening the season by sweeping a 3-game home stand, Bradley now will play nine of its next 11 games away from home.
• On the positive side, since the start of the 2018-19 season, Bradley has posted a 26-20 record away from home, including a 19-17 mark in true road games.

SCHOOL RECORDS REVIEW
• Bradley fifth-year senior guard Gabi Haack enters Monday's game as Bradley's all-time leader in career scoring (1,686 points), 3-point field goals made (293), career free throws made (359) and career minutes played (3909).
• By starting her 113th consecutive game Monday night, Haack will break the program record for games started, currently shared with Jen Brown from 2003-07.
• With 122 career games played, Haack enters Monday's action three games played shy of tying the school record of 125 games played by MacKenzie Westcott from 2008-12.

LOOKING AHEAD
• Following Monday's game at Northern Illinois, Bradley will return to the road for a Black Friday game at Minnesota.
• The Braves then will play the first of their two December home games by hosting Tulsa in an 11 a.m. "Field Trip Game" Dec. 1 at Renaissance Coliseum.

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Players Mentioned

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

#11 Caroline Waite: G; 5' 4"; Freshman

Players Mentioned

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

#11 Caroline Waite
: 5' 4"; Freshman
: G

Women's Basketball Looks to Exend Unbeaten Start in First Road Game

The 3-0 Braves visit in-state rival Northern Illinois Monday night

Players Mentioned

#3 Gabi Haack

#11 Caroline Waite

Players Mentioned

#3 Gabi Haack

#11 Caroline Waite