INDIANAPOLIS – IUPUI women's basketball will face one of its toughest tests of the season as the Jags travel to Iowa City to take on the No. 16 ranked Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday (Nov. 8) at 3 p.m.

The Jags are coming off its best offensive shooting night of the season against Indiana State in a 64-59 win over the Sycamores last Monday (Dec. 3). Austin Parkinson's squad shot over 52 percent from the field for the game and shot over 80 percent in the first quarter. Macee Williams led the team with 18 points, scoring in double-figures for every game this season. Holly Hoopingarner was second on the team with 15 points and Sydney Roule scored a career-high 14 points on 4-for-6 shooting from three point range.

IUPUI is playing its second game of the season against a Big Ten opponent, having lost to Wisconsin in overtime earlier in the year. The Jags have not played Iowa since 2002 when the Hawkeyes earned an overtime victory. Both teams come in to the game with 6-2 records on the season. The matchup against the Hawkeyes features two of the best centers in women's college basketball with Williams going up against Iowa's Megan Gustafson. Gustafson is averaging 23.4 points and 12.6 rebounds this season. Both players were named to the preseason Lisa Leslie Award Watch List for the best center in women's college basketball.

QUICK NOTES
IUPUI chops down the Sycamores

• IUPUI shot a season-high 52 percent from the field against the Sycamores as four players scored in double-figures for the Jags. The last time IUPUI had four or more players score 10-plus points was in the season opener against Purdue Northwest (6).
• For the first game this season, IUPUI won a game without winning the rebounding battle. The Jags were outrebounded 31-26 by Indiana State. IUPUI is 5-1 on the season when winning the rebounding battle.
• IUPUI took a season-low 13 three point attempts, hitting five. Sydney Roule, hit four threes on route to a career-high 14 point effort.
• The Jags finished the game with nine steals, the most in a game since the season-opening win against Purdue Northwest when IUPUI finished the game with 13 swipes.
• The 52.2 percent shooting night for IUPUI was the best in the last 16 games going back to last season when IUPUI shot 58.3 percent against Cleveland State on Feb. 10, 2018.

The Williams Way

• Macee Williams scored 18 points in the Jags win over Indiana State and has now scored in double-figures in all seven games this season. Williams has now scored at least ten points in 17-straight games going back to last season.
• Williams has led the Jags in scoring in six of the eight games this season.
• Williams leads the Horizon League with 19.4 points per game and is pulling down a team-best 7.8 rebounds.

0-for-Ranked

• IUPUI will be looking for its first win against a ranked team when it travels to No. 16 Iowa. The Jags are 0-13 against ranked teams including two losses to Green Bay last season. In the 13 losses, IUPUI has been outscored by an average of 25.7 points.

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.