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Game Notes

RICHMOND, Ky. – The Eastern Kentucky women’s basketball team has played four straight games on the road. On Thursday the Lady Colonels return to McBrayer Arena and begin the second half of the Ohio Valley Conference schedule against Austin Peay State University. Tip-off is scheduled for 5:38 p.m.

As the snow falls in Richmond, EKU will have its own “White-Out” on Thursday. Colonel fans, throw on your white shirts as Aramark and Mountain Dew present EKU’s first-ever “White Out” game. Free rally towels will be given out to all fans while supplies last along with free samples of Mountain Dew White Out Smooth Citrus Dew.

Wazoo will broadcast the game live on television (channel 305 Time Warner Cable-Richmond). The live radio broadcast of the game is available in the Richmond area on WEKY 1340 AM, and can be heard worldwide on EKUSports.com.

EKU (4-14, 1-8 OVC) leads the all-time series with Austin Peay 43-28. The Lady Colonels are 24-7 all-time in games played in Richmond. However, the Lady Govs have won four of the past five meetings between the two teams.

In Eastern’s last game, the Lady Colonels led by eight at halftime and had a seven-point lead with 10 minutes left in the game, but only scored six points the rest of the way and lost 69-56 to Morehead State on Saturday. Freshman Marie Carpenter led EKU with a game-high 23 points.

Austin Peay is only 7-14 this season, but the Lady Govs are 6-3 in the OVC. APSU has won three of its last four games. During that time, the Lady Govs have won by an average of 14 points. Their only loss was a four-point set back to conference leader Tennessee Tech.

Whitney Hanley leads the team with an average of 12.6 points per game. Jasmine Rayner averages 10 points and a team-best 7.9 rebounds per game. In Austin Peay’s 65-54 victory over Jacksonville State on Saturday, Meghan Bussabarger led the squad with 12 points and added 11 rebounds. Hanley scored nine and grabbed 12 boards. APSU out-rebounded the Gamecocks by 15.

When Eastern and Austin Peay met on Dec. 19 in Clarksville, EKU closed a 14-point second half deficit to three, but couldn’t complete the comeback, falling by a score of 70-60. The Lady Colonels got hammered on the boards to the tune of 47-29. The Lady Govs grabbed 22 rebounds off the offensive glass and scored 19 second chance points. Sophomore Brittany Coles scored 24 points and finished with nine boards for Eastern. Nicole Olszewski led APSU with 18 points.