Program Record Road Stretch Ends Sunday

For the first time in program history, Bradley will complete an 8-of-9 game stretch on the road when the Braves visit Indiana State Sunday

Josh Schwam

Women's Basketball 1/8/2022 3:13:00 PM

Game 12 \| Bradley Braves (3-8, 0-2 MVC) at Indiana State Sycamores (6-7, 1-1 MVC)
Date	Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022
Time	12:00 p.m. CT
Location	Terre Haute, IN
Venue (Capacity)	Hulman Center (9,000)
Social Media	Twitter: @B radleyWBB \| Instagram: @bradley_wbb

Playing on the road for the eighth time in nine games, Bradley will be looking to snap an 8-game skid when the Braves visit Indiana State in Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball action Sunday afternoon.

BY THE NUMBERS
6 Freshman guard Caroline Waite made six 3-point field goals Friday at Evansville, pushing her season total to 29 treys through the first nine games of her collegiate career. Waite's 29 3 pointers already represents the sixth-best single-season total by a Bradley freshman in the 36 years of the bonus shot.
6 Bradley has used six different starting lineups in 11 games this season. The Braves used its fourth starting five in four games Friday at Evansville: G #0 Chloe Rice, G #11 Caroline Waite, G #13 Tatum Koenig, F #1 Tete Danso, F #25 Daija Powell.
6 Bradley has won six consecutive games against Indiana State, the longest series winning streak the Braves have enjoyed in the 81-game series history.
9 Bradley's roster includes nine newcomers among the team's 15 active student-athletes.
100 Senior guard Tatum Koenig will play in her 100th career game Sunday at Indiana State. With fifth-year guard Gabi Haack no longer available due to her season-ending knee injury, Koenig is Bradley's active leader in most every career statistical category.

SERIES HISTORY
82nd Meeting | Indiana State leads, 50-31
• The series against the Sycamores dates to Indiana State's 59-55 win Feb. 12, 1977 in Danville, IL.
• Bradley has won six straight against Indiana State, its longest win streak against the Sycamores and the first stretch of more than three consecutive wins against ISU in the 81-game series history.
• In her sixth year as Bradley head coach, Andrea Gorski boasts a 7-3 record against the Sycamores, while Indiana State's Chad Killinger is facing the Braves for the first time.

INEXPERIENCE FACTOR
• With fifth-year senior Gabi Haack and her 129 games with 119 starts no longer available, Bradley's roster has a serious experience deficiency.
• Senior point guard Tatum Koenig will play in her 100th career game Sunday afternoon.
• Bradley's 15-player active roster includes 12 first-year (9) and second-year (3) Braves.
• While Koenig has been the starting point guard in 82 of her 99 career games, the other 14 student-athletes on the active roster have combined for 41 starts in 254 career individual games played.

KOENIG CRACKS TOP 10 FOR TREYS
• By making 2-of-4 3-point field goal attempts Friday night at Evansville, senior guard Tatum Koenig moved into ninth place on Bradley's career list for career 3-point field goals.
• Now with 113 career treys, Koenig moved out of the 10th-place tie with Jen Brown (111, 2003-07) and jumped over Erika Grogg (112, 1990-94) into ninth.
• Next on the list is current Bradley head coach Andrea Gorski, who ranks eighth in Bradley history with 148 3-pointers from 1988-92.
• Koenig ranks third in Bradley history by sinking 39.2 percent (113-of-288) of her career 3-point tries.
• Michelle Nason owns the career 3-point field goal percentage record at 40.6 percent (158-389, 1993-95), while Michelle Lund is second at 40.3 percent (79-196, 2008-10).

DANSO ON THE GLASS
• With both Gabi Haack and junior forward Sierra Morrow both unavailable, sophomore forward Tete Danso earned her third start of the season and fourth of her career Friday at Evansville.
• Danso ripped down eight rebounds and blocked two shots in her 20 minutes Friday.
• The 5-foot-11 forward leads the Braves by averaging 13.2 rebounds per 40 minutes and she is second to Morrow (17) with 11 blocked shots, already two more than her 2020-21 freshman season.

WAITE'S TRIPLE PACE
• Coming off Friday's game at Evansville, when she sank six 3-pointers, Bradley freshman guard Caroline Waite is averaging 2.9 treys per game.
• Despite missing both games of the Dakotas road trip due to the flu, Waite is on a pace that will make her the second student-athlete in program history to make at least 80 3-point field goals in a season.
• At her current pace, Waite will make her 83rd 3-pointer during Bradley's first game of the MVC Women's Basketball Championship, four shy of Michelle Nason's single-season program record 87 3-pointers during the 1994-95 season.
• Already with 29 triples nine games into her career, Waite needs just one more 3-pointer to become the sixth freshman in program history to make 30 treys in a season.
3-Point Field Goals by a Bradley Freshman
Rk. No. Freshmen Season
1. 75 Michelle Lund 2008-09
2. 68 Gabi Haack 2017-18
3. 57 Katie Yohn 2009-10
4. 56 Lasha Petree 2018-19
5. 33 Genny Mueller 2001-02
6. 29 Caroline Waite 2021-22

LOOKING AHEAD
• After completing the road-heaviest 9-game stretch of road games in the program's 47-year history Sunday at Indiana State, Bradley will play six of its next eight games at home, starting Thursday night against Loyola Chicago.
• Thursday's game against the Ramblers will be Bradley's first home game since Dec. 19 and its first against a NCAA Division I opponent at Renaissance Coliseum since completing its 3-game, season-opening home stand with a 64-57 win Nov. 19 against Wisconsin.
• The Braves also will host Valparaiso Jan. 15 (2 p.m.), before returning to the road for the Missouri State (Jan. 20) and Southern Illinois (Jan. 22) swing.

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