Braves to Host UNI Saturday Afternoon

Bradley Women's Basketball will complete the first half of the Missouri Valley Conference schedule Saturday at Renaissance Coliseum

Josh Schwam

Women's Basketball 1/28/2022 11:43:00 AM

Game 18 \| UNI Panthers (11-6, 4-2 MVC) at Bradley Braves (3-14, 0-8 MVC)
Date	Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022
Time	2:00 p.m. CT
Location	Peoria, IL
Venue (Capacity)	Renaissance Coliseum (4,200)
Social Media	Twitter: @B radleyWBB \| Instagram: @bradley_wbb

Bradley will complete the first half of the Missouri Valley Conference, double round-robin league slate Saturday afternoon, when the Braves host UNI at Renaissance Coliseum. The Braves will be shooting for their third consecutive win against UNI, which would represent their longest series win streak since taking five straight against the Panthers from 1994-96.

BY THE NUMBERS
1 – Freshman guard Caroline Waite enters Thursday's game as the top-scoring underclassman (Fr/So) in the Valley at 12.0 ppg.

5 – Bradley's roster includes five student-athletes from the state of Iowa, led by senior point guard Tatum Koenig (West Branch), who has averaged 8.0 ppg in seven career games against UNI.

7.5 – In the six games since Gabi Haack's season-ending injury, senior guard Tatum Koenig has increased her scoring by 7.5 points per game.

9 – Bradley's roster includes nine newcomers among the team's 15 active student-athletes.

SERIES HISTORY
83rd Meeting | UNI leads, 45-37
• Bradley won 2-of-3 meetings against UNI last season, including its first-ever postseason win against the Panthers in the quarterfinals of the Hoops in the Heartland MVC Women's Basketball Championship.
• The Braves will be seeking their first 3-game winning streak against UNI since taking five straight against the Panthers from 1994-96.
• Prior to Bradley winning three of the last five series meetings, UNI had enjoyed a series-best, 16-game winning streak against the Braves from 2013-19.
• The series dates to the launch of the Gateway Conference in 1983-84, when Bradley swept the 2-game, home-and-home series, 104-55 at BU and 77-76 at UNI.

SERIES NEWBIES
•  With nine first-year student-athletes on the roster and fifth-year senior Gabi Haack on the injury shelf, Bradley's lineup includes just five players who have ever appeared in a game against UNI.
• While senior guard Tatum Koenig has played in seven games against the Panthers, scoring 56 points (8.0 ppg) in 259 cumulative minutes, the other 14 Bradley student-athletes available Saturday afternoon have combined for nine individual games against UNI, totaling five points in 36 cumulative minutes.
• UNI's roster includes 12 student-athletes who have played a combined 54 individual games against Bradley, accumulating 321 points in 978 minutes.

DEFENDING THE HOME COURT
•  Since the start of the 2018-19 season, Bradley is 36-14 (.720) in its last 50 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).

ROSTER FLUX
•  While all 16 Braves have seen action this season, only three Braves have appeared in all 17 games.
• Senior guard Tatum Koenig is the only Brave to start all 17 games, while sophomores Daija Powell and Tete Danso are the only other Braves to play in all 17 games.
• The dip to just three players to appear in every game occurred when Gabi Haack's program-record streak of 129 consecutive games played ended Jan. 7 at Evansville.
• The three players to appear in every game already are the fewest in a season since 2016-17, when just three student-athletes played in all 31 games.
• Through the season's first 17 games, eight different Braves have combined to miss 37 individual games due to a variety of illnesses and injuries.

WITHOUT GABI
• Senior point guard Tatum Koenig has made the team's most significant scoring jump in Gabi Haack's absence.
• Koenig had averaged 6.8 points per game with 20 double-digit scoring efforts in her first 98 career games.
• In the seven games since Haack's injury, Koenig has averaged 14.3 ppg with six double-digit efforts.

LOOKING AHEAD
•  Friday's MVC matchup against Indiana State will be the 83rd all-time women's basketball meeting between the Braves and Sycamores.
• The series dates to Feb. 12, 1977, when Indiana State earned a 59-55 victory in Danville, IL, where the Braves had also played host Danville Area Community College earlier in the day.
• Bradley's series-best, 6-game winning streak against Indiana State ended Jan. 9, when the Sycamores earned a 73-57 win at Hulman Center.
• Bradley is 7-3 in its last 10 games against Indiana State, it's best 10-game stretch against the Sycamores in program history.
• The Braves are seeking their fifth consecutive home win against Indiana State, which would equal the longest home winning streak in the series.

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