INDIANAPOLIS – IUPUI women's basketball is set to take on Milwaukee in the semifinals of the Horizon League Women's Basketball Championship on Monday, March 8 at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum. The game is set to tip off at 2 p.m. and will be streamed on ESPN+.

With a spot in the Horizon League Finals up for grabs and IUPUI looking for back-to-back championships, the Jaguars are going to face a tough test in a Milwaukee team that has beaten them twice already this season, including a thrilling double overtime contest the last time the two teams met.

IUPUI boasts the league's top scoring offense at 72.5 points per game and while Milwaukee sits in the middle of the pack on offense, this game features two of the best defenses the Horizon League has to offer. Milwaukee holds the No. 2 scoring defense at 55.9 points per game, while IUPUI is allowing just 58.1 points per game, good for third in the league.

The Panthers bring in the best field goal percentage defense, allowing opposing teams to shoot just 35.4 percent from the field. IUPUI is the best shooting team in the league, hitting 46.5 percent of its shots. Neither team surrenders threes easily as IUPUI is tops in the league allowing teams to shoot 26.5 percent from deep and Milwaukee is second at 27.6% from deep. IUPUI is the top three point shooting team in the league at 38.2 percent.

In the first two meetings this season, IUPUI hit 50 percent from three in the first meeting but just 17 percent in the second game.

If the game comes down to free throws, Milwaukee brings a big advantage in to the game. As a team, Milwaukee is hitting 83.6 percent from the stripe to lead the Horizon League. IUPUI sits at seventh at 69 percent. In the two games this season, IUPUI was 38-for-57 from the line while Milwaukee was 38-for-45.

ABOUT IUPUI
- IUPUI enters the game on a six-game win streak after beating Oakland in the Horizon League Quarterfinals. The Jags are led by three-time Horizon League Player of the Year Macee Williams, who averaged career-highs in points per game (17.9), rebounds per game (9.3) and assists per game (2.2) during the regular season. Williams .530 field goal percentage is currently the highest FG% by a senior in school history.

- Rachel McLimore was named Second Team All-Horizon and to the Horizon League All-Defensive Team in her second year as a Jaguar. McLimore is second on the team with 14.0 points per game and 2.8 assists per game. She also averaged 1.5 steals per contest.

- Destiny Perkins has had a smooth transition to the point guard role, scoring 8.2 points per game, pulling down 4.0 rebounds per game, handing out 2.6 assists per game and averaging 2.1 steals per game. Perkins had a career-high 11 rebounds in the quarterfinal round.

- Sydney Roule has been on fire from three this year, scoring a career-high 7.1 points per game and shooting 46.2% from behind the arc to lead the Jags. Roule's 3FG% would  be the second-highest in a season by a Jaguar and the highest for a senior. The senior has hit a three in all but three games this season and made four threes in five different games. Roule currently leads the Horizon League and is 8th in the NCAA in 3FG%.

- Natalie Andersen has been a spark of the bench for head coach Austin Parkinson, scoring 6.3 points per game to lead all bench scorers. Andersen averages 3.1 rebounds per game and is shooting over 40 percent from both the field and three-point range.

- Katelyn O'Reilly has picked up her game as the postseason has arrived. The senior scored a season-high 15 points and has scored in double-figures in three of her last seven games. O'Reilly has pulled down eight rebounds in each of the last two games.

- With a win over Milwaukee, head coach Austin Parkinson would record his 200th career win, all coming at IUPUI.

- Williams has been unstoppable for IUPUI in the last eight games, scoring at least 13 points in each game and having three games of 20+ points. During that streak, Williams has four double-doubles and has had four games of five assists. Williams has shot over 50 percent in each of the last six games.

- McLimore is riding a string of nine-straight games scoring in double-figures. During the run, McLimore has three games of at least 20 points, including a 30-point effort in the Jags' double overtime loss against Milwaukee.

SCOUTING MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee has won four-straight games after an overtime loss to Oakland on Feb. 12. The Panthers dispatched of No. 7 seed Youngstown State 77-68 in the quarterfinal round. Mckaela Schmelzer led the Panthers with 24 points and two other Panthers finished in double figures.

Megan Walstad (All-League First Team) and Brandi Bisping (All-League Second Team) lead the Panthers on offense at 12.5 and 11.4 points per game respectively. Walstad pulls down 8.9 rebounds per game, while Bisping is right behind at 8.6.