Women's Basketball | 2/20/2015 3:00:00 PM

GAME COVERAGE
Complete Game Notes (PDF): BLOOMSBURG 
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LAST TIME OUT
> Bloomsburg battled back from an 11-point deficit with 2:12 left in the first half, dominating the second half on the way to a 71-58 win at Kutztown Wednesday.

> The 11-point deficit the Huskies rallied from was the largest this year in a Huskies victory.

> Jocelyn Ford (Lansing, NY/Lansing) keyed the Huskies with 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting.

> Erica Maciejewski (Red Lion/Red Lion) turned in perhaps her finest performance of the year with a season-high 11 points and also paced the Huskies on the boards with seven rebounds.

> Marla Simmons (Lebanon/Cedar Crest) scored 12 points to stretch her streak of consecutive games with double-figure scoring to 10 straight.

ABOUT MILLERSVILLE
Millersville started the season 10-4, but injuries crippled Millersville's postseason hopes. A January loss to Pitt-Johnstown saw Millersville lose leading scorer senior Carly Gallagher for the season due to injury. The leading scorer on the team, Gallagher was averaging 16.0 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game and had scored in double figures in 14 of 15 games before going down with injury. Without their star senior, Millersville has posted a 1-10 record.

In the 11 games since Gallagher's injury, the Marauders have struggled to find offense, averaging 55 points per game. In that span, Millersville has topped 63 points just once - an 83-72 win over Mansfield on Feb. 4. The Marauders have struggled with easy points, shooting a PSAC-low 55.3 percent from the foul line.

The Marauders still possess what can be a strong defense - Millersville ranks sixth in the PSAC while allowing only 61.2 points per game and holds opponents to just 36.3 percent shwhile ooting from the floor - the lowest mark in the conference. Millersville is also strong on the boards, ranking fifth in the PSAC with a +5.5 rebounding margin, including 14.5 offensive rebounds per game - only West Chester (16.4) and Gannon (15.1) are better on the offensive glass. Yasmin Cooper is one of the league's top rebounders (9.0 rpg, sixth) while Cooper (8.2 ppg) and Shelby Reimer, (8.6 ppg) lead the team offensively. Reimer comes from a family of basketball success - sister Samantha is Edinboro's all-time leading scorer (1,926 points) after graduating in 2010.


LAST MEETING / SERIES HISTORY
Millersville leads 40-38
The Huskies scored their second straight win in the series, 69-47, at Nelson Field House on Jan. 21 behind a double-double of 22 points and 10 rebounds from senior Marla Simmons (Lebanon/Cedar Crest). The Huskies held Millersville to just 30.4 percent shooting from the floor, including a mere 23.3 percent during the second half. Alexis Martin was the lone Millersville player in double figures with 10 points as well as eight rebounds.

In Bloomsburg's last trip to Pucillo Gym last January, a 3-pointer from Catherine Noack (Bethlehem/Liberty) with less than five seconds to play off an inbounds pass from Jocelyn Ford (Lansing, NY/Lansing) gave the Huskies a thrilling 79-77 victory, snapping what was a three-game Millersville winning streak over BU.

TWEETABLES
Huskies facts in 140 characters or less
-Adreana Sadowski (Fleetwood/Brandywine Heights) is tied for the lead in PSAC blocks this season along with ESU's Jessica Martin (57 blocks).

-Marla Simmons (Lebanon/Cedar Crest) has scored in double figures 17 times this season. She had done so 12 times combined over her first three seasons in Maroon and Gold.

-Jocelyn Ford (Lansing, NY/Lansing) led the Huskies in scoring for the second time this season in Wednesday's win at Kutztown. She did so nine times a year ago.

-Taylor Maldonado (Stroudsburg/Allentown Central Catholic) tied her career high with eight assists last Saturday vs. Mansfield, the most she has posted in a Huskies uniform. She also reached the total vs. Tampa while at Florida Southern.

-Bloomsburg had winning streaks of 12 straight overall games, 20 road games and 24 PSAC East victories snapped with its overtime loss at West Chester last Wednesday.

-Since the 2010-11 season, the Huskies are 35-2 during the month of February. The lone loss before last Wednesday: a 64-62 heartbreaker at home vs. Millersville on Feb. 6, 2013.

-Bloomsburg's previous best divisional winning streak was 21 games set between the 1989-90 and 1991-92 seasons. That streak came to an end with a 63-55 setback vs. West Chester in 1992.

-The Huskies went undefeated during the month of January for the second straight year.

-The Huskies have held opponents to under 60 points 15 times this season.

-Bloomsburg is undefeated when shooting 40 percent or better from the field this season.

-Bloomsburg is undefeated when Adreana Sadowski (Fleetwood/Brandywine Heights) records 10 or more rebounds - the Huskies are 9-0 in such games during Sadowski's career.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
> 4 - Bloomsburg has won the PSAC East outright in each of the past four years. The only other time that has happened was by the 1988-91 Huskies teams. No other school has accomplished the feat. If the Huskies could win a fifth this season, it would set an all-time PSAC East record.

> 6-7 - Huskies head coach Bill Cleary has a 6-7 record vs. Millersville while at BU, making the Marauders are the only PSAC East team Cleary does not have a winning record against, going 77-19 against the rest of the Eastern Division.

> 10 - Senior Marla Simmons (Lebanon/Cedar Crest) has scored in double figures in 10 straight games entering Wednesday, averaging 17.3 ppg over that span.

> 20 - In 17 of 24 games this season, the Huskies have forced 20 or more turnovers by opponents.

> 20.2% - Taylor Maldonado (Stroudsburg/Allentown Central Catholic) has assisted 20.2 percent of the Huskies made baskets while she has been on the floor this season.

> 24 - Bloomsburg's PSAC East divisional winning streak came to an end at 24 straight games. That is the all-time PSAC divisional record since the current balanced alignment began in 1989. The previous record was held by Edinboro (23, 2011-12). The previous best streak against the PSAC East in BU school history was a 21-game winning streak between 1989-92.

> 37.5% - Opponents are shooting just 37.5 percent on average against the Huskies this year, third-lowest in the PSAC. Only Millersville (36.3%) and Shippensburg (37.3%)hold opponents to a lower average.

> 58.2 - Bloomsburg now leads the PSAC in scoring defense, allowing just 58.2 points on average. IUP is second (58.3 ppg).

> 90 - In last Wednesday's loss at West Chester the Huskies allowed 93 points - it marked just the fourth time in seven
seasons under head coach Bill Cleary that the Huskies have allowed 90 or more points. The last time came in Bloomsburg's previous PSAC East loss - Dec. 7, 2013 at Shippensburg (a 92-83 defeat).

> 200 - Saturday will mark head coach Bill Cleary's 200th game on the sidelines for the Huskies.