Women's Basketball | 3/1/2020 10:27:00 PM

BLOOMSBURG	Schedule	Roster	Statistics
KUTZTOWN	Schedule	Roster	Statistics

STORYLINE
The Bloomsburg University women's basketball team enters the 2020 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Tournament as the No. 6 seed on the East while the Kutztown University Golden Bears captured the No. 3 seed for the division. The Huskies come into Monday's game after a 65-53 win over Kutztown last Wednesday split the season series. The Golden Bears defeated Bloomsburg 66-55 earlier in the season at Keystone Arena. The Golden Bears are coming off a 70-62 win over Shippensburg last Saturday to wrap up the regular season.

ALL-TIME SERIES
The Huskies owns a 73-27 all-time series lead over the Golden Bears. The two teams each have four wins in the last eight meetings though Bloomsburg had a 16-game winning streak snapped by Kutztwon in 2017. The two teams have split the season-series for the last five years and are meeting in the PSAC tournament for the sixth time, with the last meeting coming in the 2017-18 seson when the Huskies fell to Kutztown, 73-60. The last win in the tournament for Bloomsburg came in the the 2014-15 season when the Huskies defeated the Golden Bears 64-54 in Bloomsburg in the tournaments quarterfinal game.

SCOUTING BLOOMSBURG
Bloomsburg's offense is led by junior Emma Saxton (York, Pa./Central York) averaging 13.1 points per game. Saxton is 23^rd in the league in scoring and 17^th with 3.3 assists per game. Saxton has hit double figures for the Huskies in the last 11 games and has led the team in scoring in nine of those games. Seniors Taylor Montana (Berwick, Pa./Berwick) and Bella Ricci (Etters, Pa./Red Land) are second on the team in scoring with 9.4 points per game. Redshirt junior Meghan Corridoni (Exeter, Pa./Holy Redeemer) lead the team with 5.3 rebounds per game. Montana is 12^th in the league averaging 1.0 blocks per game and has 26 for the year.

As a team, the Huskies are averaging 62.5 points per game, 15^th in the league, while allowing 63.3 points per game, the league's seventh best defense. From the field, the Huskies are shooting 42.9%, fourth-best field goal percentage in the league though are just 30.7% from three-point range with the league's worst 89 three pointers made. Bloomsburg has the league's sixth-best defense against threes, allowing teams to shoot just 30.9% from long range. The Huskies have a 67.7% shooting percentage from the free throw line and are even on the boards pulling down 34.9 rebounds per game and allowing 34.8.
 
SCOUTING KUTZTOWN
The Golden Bears are led by Rylee Derr with 15.8 points per game and Casey Remolde with 10.4 points per game. Derr is 12^th in the league in scoring and 19^th in the PSAC with 6.3 rebounds per game. Zoe Zerman is 18^th in the league with 3.2 assists per game while Remolde is averaging 1.5 steals per game. Remolde also leads the league with 2.1 blocks per game. Karen Lapkiewicz is second in the league with a 87.0% shooting percentage from the free throw line and Derr is fifth with a 37.2% from beyond the arc.
 
As a team, the Golden Bears are 10^th in the league in scoring averaging 67.0 points per game and allowing just 61.6 point per game, fourth in the league. Kutztown is shooting 39.1% from the field, 14^th in the league, though are holding teams to a 38.6% from the field. Kutztown leads the league with 226 three-pointers made but is fifth in the league with a 32.1 shooting percentage from beyond the arc. The Golden Bears are shooting 73.2% from the free throw line and out-rebounding opponents by a 3.0 margin, 37.4-34.4.

UP NEXT
The winner of Monday's match up earns a trip to the PSAC quarterfinals against East Stroudsburg on Wednesday, March 4. The Warriors earned a first-round bye after grabbing the No. 2 seed in the East. The winner of the East Stroudsburg quarterfinal will take on the IUP quarterfinal on the other side of the bracket.