Home Stand Closes Sunday

Bradley Women's Basketball will wrap up its season-long, 4-game home stand Sunday against Evansville

Josh Schwam

Women's Basketball 2/5/2022 12:53:00 PM

Game 20 \| Evansville Purple Aces (7-13, 1-8 MVC) at Bradley Braves (3-16, 0-10 MVC)
Date	Sunday, Feb. 6, 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 close out its season-long, 4-game home stand Sunday afternoon, when the Braves welcome Evansville to Renaissance Coliseum. The Braves will be shooting for the regular-season series split after Evansville earned a 74-73 win Jan. 7 at Meeks Family Fieldhouse in Bradley's first game without the program's all-time leading scorer, Gabi Haack.

BY THE NUMBERS
1 – Freshman guard Caroline Waite enters Sunday's game as the top-scoring underclassman (Fr/So) in the Valley at 12.1 ppg.

6 – Bradley senior guard Tatum Koenig has scored in double figures in six consecutive games for the first time in her career.

9 – Already ninth in BU history with 90 career starts, 3,210 minutes played and 128 3FGM, Koenig (324) needs two assists to move up to ninth on the program's career assists list.

13 – Bradley has utilized 13 different starting lineups this season, all in the last 15 games, the most starting lineups of any team in the nation this season.

SERIES HISTORY
59th Meeting | Bradley leads, 37-21
• Sunday's matchup will be the 59th meeting in the all-time series between the Bradley and Evansville women's basketball teams.
• Bradley owns a 37-21 advantage in a series that has been played entirely as Missouri Valley Conference rivals since the Purple Aces joined the MVC for the 1994-95 season.
• Bradley's series-best, 9-game winning streak against Evansville as snapped when the Purple Aces eeked out a 74-73 win Jan. 7 at Meeks Family Fieldhouse in BU's first game without all-time leading scorer Gabi Haack.
• Sixth-year Bradley head coach Andrea Gorski boasts a 10-2 all-time record against the Purple Aces, while Sunday's return game will be the second against the Braves for first-year Evansville head coach Robyn Scherr-Wells.
• Bradley has won six straight games versus Evansville at Renaissance Coliseum, where the Braves own an overall 9-1 series record since the building opened for the 2010-11 season.
• In her sixth year as Bradley head coach, Andrea Gorski is 7-4 against Indiana State, while first-year Sycamores head coach Chad Killinger is 1-0 against the Braves.

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 six players who have ever appeared in more than just this season's previous meeting against Evansville.
• Senior guard Tatum Koenig has played in seven games against the Evansville, scoring 69 points (9.9 ppg) in 179 cumulative minutes.
• The other 14 Bradley student-athletes available Sunday afternoon have combined for 24 individual games against Evansville, totaling 78 points in 275 cumulative series minutes -- With Koenig: 31 individual games, 454 minutes and 157 points.
• On the other side, Evansville's roster includes 14 student-athletes who also have played a combined 36 individual games against Bradley, accumulating 252 points in 788 minutes.

DEFENDING THE HOME COURT
• Since the start of the 2018-19 season, Bradley is 36-16 (.692) in its last 52 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).

LINEUP ROTATION
• Bradley has used 13 different starting lineups this season, the most of any team in the nation to date.
• The Braves used the same lineup for the season's first five games, but Caroline Waite's non-COVID illness that prevented her from making the trip to the Dakotas ignited a stretch that has seen the Braves roll out a different starting five in 13 of the last 15 games.

LOOKING AHEAD
• Bradley returns to the road for four of its next six games, beginning Thursday night for the Missouri Valley Conference return game at Valparaiso.
• Thursday's game will be the 17th meeting all-time between the Braves and Beacons, a series Bradley has dominated to the tune of a 12-4 advantage.
• Valparaiso, however, has won two of the last three meetings, most-recently a 68-61 decision Jan. 15 at Renaissance Coliseum.
• Bradley has won three of its previous five games at Valpo's ARC since the Beacons joined The Valley for the 2017-18 season, including a split in last year's 2-game COVID series at Valparaiso.

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Players Mentioned

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

#13 Tatum Koenig: G; 5' 7"; Senior

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

Players Mentioned

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

#13 Tatum Koenig
: 5' 7"; Senior
: G

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

Home Stand Closes Sunday

Bradley Women's Basketball will wrap up its season-long, 4-game home stand Sunday against Evansville

Players Mentioned

#3 Gabi Haack

#13 Tatum Koenig

#11 Caroline Waite

Players Mentioned

#3 Gabi Haack

#13 Tatum Koenig

#11 Caroline Waite