Road Swing Continues with First Trip to the Dakotas

Bradley Women's Basketball will visit North Dakota State Saturday, South Dakota Monday

Women's Basketball 12/3/2021 9:30:00 AM

Game 6 \| Bradley Braves (3-2) at North Dakota State Bison (2-4)
Date	Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021
Time	7:00 p.m. CT
Location	Fargo, ND
Venue (Capacity)	Scheels Center (5,644)
Social Media	Twitter: @B radleyWBB \| Instagram: @bradley_wbb

After its home game Wednesday against Tulsa was cancelled due to COVID issues within the Golden Hurricane program, Bradley will play its next four games on the road, beginning with its first-ever games in both of the Dakotas.

BY THE NUMBERS
5 Bradley trio of guards Gabi Haack, Tatum Koenig and Caroline Waite each have made at least one 3-pointer in each of the season's first five games.
6 The cancellation of the Tulsa game means Bradley now is in the middle of a six-game stretch of consecutive games away from home, the longest such stretch since seven consecutive road games in 2016-17.
9 Fifth-year senior guard Gabi Haack has become the ninth NCAA Division I women's basketball student-athlete in the 36-year history of the 3-point line to combine 300 career 3-point field goals (302) with 300 free throws (362) and 700 rebounds (739).
57 After sweeping a 3-game home stand to open the season, the cancellation of Wednesday's game means it will take 57 days for the Braves to play its next three home games (Dec. 28, Jan. 13 and Jan. 15).

SERIES HISTORY
2nd Meeting • Bradley leads, 1-0
• The series against North Dakota State began just two years ago, when the Braves earned a 70-64 victory Dec. 5, 2019 at Renaissance Coliseum.
• Though played just two seasons ago, the current team rosters include only three student-athletes from each squad who played in that 2019 meeting:
Bradley - Gabi Haack (21 points, nine rebounds); Tatum Koenig (10 points, 7 assists); and Veronika Roberts (0 points, 3 rebounds)
North Dakota State - Ryan Cobbins (8 points, 2 rebounds); Emily Dietz (16 points, 8 rebounds); Olivia Skibiel (3 points, 2 rebounds)

ROAD TRIPPIN'
• Following the cancellation of Wednesday's home game against Tulsa due to COVID issues within the Golden Hurricane Tier 1 personnel, Bradley's trip to the Dakotas will fall in the middle of what is to become a six game stretch of games played away from home (five road, one neutral).
• Bradley opened the season with a 3-game home stand in 11 days from Nov. 9-19.
• Following the completion of that home sweep, however, it will take the Braves 57 days to play their next three home games: Dec. 28 (Saint Louis), Jan. 13 (Loyola Chicago) and Jan. 15 (Valparaiso).
• The current stretch of six consecutive games away from home equals the fourth-longest overall in program history and equals the second-longest stretch of games away from home inside one season in program history.
• The Braves last played at least six straight away from home by posting a 3-4 record in seven straight outside Peoria from Dec. 5, 2016 through Jan. 8, 2017.
• Of the eight groupings of at least six consecutive games away from home in program history, five spanned the end of one season and the start of the next.

SEEING THE COUNTRY
• While Bradley has played three home games to date this season, this six-game road swing will have the Braves playing in five states (Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Louisiana).
• During the 2021 calendar year, Bradley will play 13 home games and 19 games away from home in eight different states.

ROAD RESULTS
• Though the Braves have opened this season with an 0-2 road record, Bradley has enjoyed its share of success away from home since the start of the 2018-19 season.
• The Braves have posted a winning record away from home (road and neutral) each of the previous three seasons.
• Bradley has not posted four consecutive seasons with a winning record away from home.
• Since the start of the 2018-19 season, the Braves are 26-22 (.542) in their last 48 games away from home.

SCHOOL RECORDS REVIEW
• Bradley fifth-year senior guard Gabi Haack enters Saturday's game as Bradley's all-time leader in career scoring (1,732 points), 3-point field goals made (302 - MVC record), 3-point field goals attempted (784), free throws made (362), minutes played (3980) and games started (114, all consecutive).
• With 124 career games played, Haack is expected to equal MacKenzie Westcott's program record of 125 games played from 2008-12 Saturday night and break the record Monday at South Dakota.
• In addition to the seven career records, Haack owns the Bradley record for consecutive free throw attempts made with 34 in a row Dec. 9, 2019 through Jan. 31, 2020 and shares the program mark for 3-point field goals in a game, sinking eight Dec. 28, 2017 at Western Illinois.

ALL-TIME EXCLUSIVE CLUB
• Fifth-year senior guard Gabi Haack is the only active women's basketball student-athlete among all three NCAA divisions to have accumulated 300 career 3-point field goals (302), 300 career free throws (362) and 700 career rebounds (739).
• In fact, in the 36-year history of the college 3-point line, Haack is just the 12th full-time NCAA Division I women's or men's basketball student-athlete to reach all three career thresholds.
• Haack is on a pace that will make her the only NCAA Division I women's or men's student-athlete in the history of the 3-point line to total 350 treys, 400 free throws and 800 rebounds.

THREE FOR THREE
• The Bradley guard trio of Gabi Haack, Tatum Koenig and Caroline Waite has each made at least one three-point field goal in each of the season's first five games.
• The triple streak is the longest since the trio of Haack, Koenig and Lasha Petree also each made at least one trey in five straight games from Dec. 1-21, 2019 and equals the longest triple trey streak in Andrea Gorski's sixth season as Bradley head coach.
• Haack has made at least one trey in 13 consecutive games, since an 0-for-4 showing Feb. 19. 2021 at Missouri State.
• With a 3-pointer Friday at North Dakota State, Haack will make her third appearance on the Bradley top 10 list for consecutive games with a triple.
• Koenig was 0-for-1 from beyond the arc in the 2021 NCAA Tournament game against Texas and Waite has just started her career this season, giving them both personal 5-game streaks of making at least one 3-pointer.

SPEAKING OF STREAKS
• Junior forward Sierra Morrow leads the team with 10 blocked shots and has blocked at least one shot in each of her first five games as a Brave.
• Morrow ranks fourth in The Valley and 39th nationally by averaging 2.00 blocked shots per game.
• Morrow is responsible for 10 of Bradley's 16 (.625)rejections and has one more blocked shot than the first five opponents against the Braves.
• Morrow is the first Bradley student-athlete to reject at lease one shot in each of the first five games of a season since Tamya Sims started the 2015-16 campaign with six straight games with a blocked shot.
• Sims began her freshman year in 2014-15 with at least one rejection in 14 consecutive games

LOOKING AHEAD
• Following Saturday's game at North Dakota State, the Braves will head a few hours south for a Monday night game at South Dakota.
• Like Saturday's game in Fargo, Monday's game at South Dakota will be the first-ever game in the Mount Rushmore State for Bradley Women's Basketball.
• The Braves will take a break for final exams and then will return to action by participating in the Tulane Holiday Tournament, Dec. 20 against Little Rock and Dec. 21 versus either Tulane or Texas Southern.

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