INDIANAPOLIS – IUPUI women's basketball hits the road for its second-straight game against a Missouri Valley Conference team as the Jags travel to Terre Haute to take on Indiana State on Monday at 7 p.m. The game will be streamed on ESPN3.
IUPUI (5-2) are looking to rebound from a poor offensive performance in a loss against Northern Iowa.
Macee Williams finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds but the Jags finished with a season low in points (40) and shooting percentage (32.6%). The Jags also struggled to get to the free throw line shooting a season-low 11 and only hitting seven.
The Sycamores come in to the game with a 4-1 record, coming off of a 62-51 win over Southeast Missouri State on Friday (Nov. 30). Indiana State had four players score in double figures with Ashli O'Neal scoring 15. O'Neal is the leading scorer on the season with 16.2 points per game.
IUPUI and Indiana State have met each of the last six seasons and the Jags have won the last three meetings. Last season's game was an 86-57 win for IUPUI and
Holly Hoopingarner scored a career-high 23 points and went 5-for-5 from the three point line.
QUICK NOTES
QUIETED BY UNI
- IUPUI scored a season-low 40 points in the loss to UNI on Friday (Nov. 30). It was the fewest points scored by the Jags since Green Bay held IUPUI to 34 points in January of last season.
- The 40 points are tied for the fourth-lowest amount scored in a game by IUPUI under Austin Parkinson.
- Macee Williams has scored in double-figures in all seven game this season and has scored 10-plus points in 17-straight games going back to last season.
- IUPUI made less than ten free throws for the first time this season only hitting seven against Northern Iowa.
- The loss to Northern Iowa made IUPUI 5-2 on the season, the Jags worst seven-game start since 2014-15. IUPUI had started the last three season 6-1 through seven games.
20+ Point Barrage
- IUPUI started the season with six-straight games of having a 20-point scorer. This feat was achieved with four games by Macee Williams, and one each by Katelyn O'Reilly and Holly Hoopingarner. The last time IUPUI had a 20-point scorer in six-straight games was in 2003.
Magic Number 70
- Scoring 70 points is an important sign for the Jags under head coach Austin Parkinson. In Parkinson's first eight seasons, IUPUI is 64-11 when hitting the 70-point mark. In those 11 losses, the most points scored by the Jags in regulation was 74 points. If IUPUI scores 75 points the Jags are 55-0 under Parkinson.
- The most points ever scored in a loss by the Jags under Parkinson was 83 in a 96-83 overtime loss to Miami (Ohio) in 2017.
- IUPUI has won its last ten games when scoring at least 70 points.
Close Encounters of a Basketball Kind
- IUPUI has played in one-point games in each of its last two contests (W vs. UT Martin, L/OT at Wisconsin). The last time IUPUI played in a one-point game the Jaguars beat North Dakota State 64-63 on Feb. 12 2016. The last occurrence of playing in back-to-back one-point games for IUPUI was Jan. 19 and Jan. 24 of 2013 when the Jaguars beat South Dakota State (57-56) and UMKC (47-46).
- Over the past five season, IUPUI is 3-2 in games decided by one point. The Jaguars are 11-7 in games decided by one possession, including a 3-2 record in games decided by three points or less last season.
- Under Parkinson, IUPUI has 15-13 in one possession games and 5-6 in one-point games.
Hot Start
- For the second-straight season, IUPUI opened their schedule with a win, beating Purdue Northwest 101-40. The Jags beat Northern Iowa to start the 2017-18 season and had not started a season with a win since 2013.
- IUPUI had begun its season with three-straight wins for the second-straight year, marking the best start in program history.
Big Numbers
- IUPUI scored 101 points in the season-opener against Purdue Northwest. It is the first time that IUPUI has scored over 100 points in the regular season since scoring 104 against Oakland City in 2015. The Jags had six players finish in double-figures and hit 15 threes, one shy of the school record set in 2016.
