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After closing out its three-game homestand with a win over IU-Southeast, IUPUI heads to Notre Dame, Ind., to compete in the WBCA Classic, Nov. 26-28. The WBCA Classic is a four-team, round-robin tournament that features No. 16 Notre Dame, Butler, Wake Forest, and IUPUI. IUPUI takes on No. 16 Notre Dame on Friday, Nov. 26, at 2 p.m., before taking on Butler at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 27, and Wake Forest at Noon on Sunday, Nov. 28.

·         Following the WBCA Classic, the Jaguars return home to open Summit League play against Oral Roberts and Centenary on Dec. 4 and Dec. 6, respectively.

·         Behind a 21-2 second-half run, IUPUI defeated the IU-Southeast Grenadiers, 64-59, giving the Jaguars their first win of the season and the first win of the Austin Parkinson era.

·         Kerah Nelson benefited from some transition buckets en route to a career-high 27 points. Nelson also added four assists and committed just one turnover after committing 10 in IUPUI’s first two games.

·         While Nelson stood out, Shea Collins and Janna Eichelberger provided a lift off the bench combining for 28 points on 10-of-21 shooting. Eichelberger’s 15 points were two shy of her career high and Collins’ 13 points marked her first career double-digit scoring performance.

·         Trailing by two and holding for the final shot of the half, IUPUI turned the ball over on a held ball and Whitney Duncan banked a running trifecta at the buzzer giving the Grenadiers a five-point lead, 34-29, entering intermission.

·         IUPUI came out of halftime and immediately went to Nelson in the post who converted a lay-up that cut the five-point halftime deficit to three, 34-31, just 11 seconds in, but consecutive three-pointers on the other end by Alden Krausse widened the Grenadiers cushion to 40-31, forcing IUPUI to burn a timeout.

·         Trailing by 10 points, 43-33, with 15:59 to play, IUPUI turned up the defensive intensity and held the Grenadiers scoreless for the next 6:39 and gave up just two points over the next 8:57. During that stretch, the Jaguars went on a 21-2 run, highlighted by eight points from Collins and seven from Nelson, giving IUPUI a 54-45 lead with 7:02 on the clock.

·         Dawn Luster saw her first action of the season in the win and while her stats were not eye-popping, her presence on the floor was significant.

 

·         The 2010 WBCA Classic field consists of Notre Dame, Butler, Wake Forest, and IUPUI.

·         Notre Dame enters the weekend as the No. 16 team in the country after suffering a pair of losses at UCLA and at No. 9 Kentucky.

·         The Fighting Irish are averaging 87.2 ppg on the season, while giving up 60.8 ppg.

·         Most impressively, Notre Dame is holding its opponents to 23.3 percent shooting from behind the arc.

·         Wake Forest enters the tournament with the only unblemished record after defeating William & Mary its last time out to improve to 3-0.

·         The Demon Deacons have five players averaging over 10.0 ppg and in three games, Wake Forest’s average margin of victory is 49.0 points.

·         The most impressive statistic for the Demon Deacons is their rebounding. They are averaging 57.0 rpg and just under 28.0 offensive rebounds per game.

·         Butler owns a 2-1 record entering the weekend following a win over Ohio Dominican.

·         Brittany Bowen enters the tournament as the leading scorer among all teams, averaging 16.7 ppg.

·         Despite shooting just 21.1 percent from three compared to 47.2 percent shooting from behind-the-arc for their opponents, the Bulldogs have forced their opponents into 30 more turnovers than they have committed.

·         Kerah Nelson broke out of her early-season slump with a brilliant performance against IU-Southeast on Nov. 23.

·         Nelson scored a career-high 27 points on a career-high 13 made field goals.

·         Nelson added four assists and committed just one turnover, marking her fewest amount of turnovers since Nov. 28, 2009, when she had just one turnover against Ohio State.

·         The 27-point outburst was the sixth 20-plus point performance of her career.

·         IUPUI’s victory over IU-Southeast gave the Jaguars their first win of the year and the first of the Austin Parkinson era.

·         The Jaguars trailed by 10 with 15:59 to play, before going on a 21-2 run to recapture the lead, a lead it would not relinquish.

·         The comeback victory marked the first time since Feb. 14, 2009, that IUPUI has overcome a double-digit deficit to win.

·         On Feb. 14, 2009, the Jaguars overcame an 11-point deficit with 11:07 to play to defeat Oral Roberts.

·         The Jaguars used 30 bench points to help defeat IU-Southeast, 64-59, on Tuesday, Nov. 23.

·         15 of the 30 bench points came from Janna Eichelberger, who played a season-high 35 minutes.

·         Shea Collins also contributed 13 points, and hit all three of IUPUI’s 3-pointers. The 13 points marked Collins’ first double-figure scoring effort of her career.

·         “I was really proud of Shea tonight because we know she can score, but she has been working every day defensively and it’s amazing when you work hard in practice how it translates to the game and she was a factor in that second half,” Austin Parkinson said. “Janna is coming off an injury and hasn’t had many reps in practice so for her to contribute the way she did tonight was a big boost for us.”

·         Turnovers were the Achilles heel for IUPUI during the 2009-10 season.

·         The Jaguars averaged 23.4 turnovers per game last season compared to 17.2 for its opponents and had fewer turnovers than its opponents in just six of 29 games.

·         In the season opener against Wright State on Nov. 12, IUPUI showed an improvement in its ball security turning the ball over 18 times, while forcing the Raiders into 21 turnovers.

·         IUPUI continued that trend against IU-Southeast by forcing the Grenadiers into 22 turnovers, while only committing 15 turnovers.

·         Only once during the 2009-10 season did the Jaguars force their opponent to more than 20 turnovers while committing fewer than 20 turnovers (Jan. 16, 2010 vs. Centenary).

·         IUPUI countered its 15 turnovers with 19 assists in a five-point win over IU-Southeast.

·         It marked the first time since Feb. 28, 2009, that IUPUI posted an assist-to-turnover ratio great than 1.1.

·         Three games in to her freshman season, #Del’Niqua Bellamy has shown she is one of the top defenders in head coach Austin Parkinson’s# rotation.

·         In IUPUI’s win over IU-Southeast, Bellamy and Jasmine Horne combined to hold Whitney Duncan to three points on 1-of-6 shooting in the second half after scoring nine points on 4-of-4 shooting in the first half.

·         Demetria Nunley-Lash and Shakeeta Cotton also put forth their best defensive effort holding IU-Southeast’s leading scorer, Ashmere Woods, nine points below her season average.