The East Central University women's basketball team will wrap up the first half of the 2014-15 Great American Conference season when they host arch rival Southeastern Oklahoma State at the Kerr Activities Center, Thursday, Jan. 22 at 5:30 p.m.

Game Notes

The Broadcast
ECU's radio home for Tigers basketball in 2012-13 is Ada's KXFC, 105.5, FM 'The X-Factor'. Kenny Morrison returns to broadcast the games for his 18th season. Morrison, a 1987 ECU graduate, spent two seasons doing color prior to taking over the play-by-play duties during the 1997-98 season.  

The Coverage
Fans who can't be at the game can find links to live stats, live video (if available) and the KXFC radio broadcast on ECUTigers.com.  Go to the men's basketball schedule page. Fans can listen to the radio broadcast online or through the FREE KXFC App available in ITunes, Google Stores where apps are sold and www.kxfcradio.com.

Blackout the Power of the Storm
Thursday's game is the annual Blackout the Power of the Storm game, with fans encouraged to show their support for the Tigers by wearing black.  Through the @ECUTigers Twitter account you can enter to win one of two prize packs for your best Blackout outfit.  Just send a picture of you in your outfit from the game, with #BlackoutPower, before the start of the men's game, with the winners announced live at half time of the men's game.

Scouting Southeastern
The Savage Storm are 12-5 overall and 5-4 in the GAC, just one spot below the Tigers in the standings, after losing their last three games.  SEOSU has a +9.3 scoring margin on the season and is even in the rebounding column.  The Savage Storm have a .409 to .375 lead in overall shooting percentage, but their big advantage comes from beyond the arc, where they average 10.2 triples per game and allow 6.7.

SEOSU has two players to key on that average over 10 points per game.  Emily Williams is the all-around leader, with 17.2 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.  Williams also adds a .401 shooting percentage, 51 assists, 23 steals and 10 blocks.  Olivia Potters is netting 10.9 points per game, with 118 of her 138 shot attempts coming from beyond the arc.  She is shooting .442 overall and .466 from three-point range.

Against the Savage Storm
Last year each team won the game on their home courts, with the Tigers ending up with a +1.5 scoring and +5.5 rebounding margin.

Seniors Erin Walling and Dilan Webster were the keys to ECU's success in the games.  Walling averaged 14.5 points and 1.5 rebounds per game, while Webster added 14.0 points and 7.5 boards and shot .444 from the field.

Emily Williams is the top returner for the Savage Storm, with 12.0 points and six rebounds per game.  

The Series
The series with SEOSU is a true rivalry, with the Savage Storm currently holding a small, 31-35 lead.  However, the Tigers have been working on closing the gap, having won four of the last five meetings.  Thursday's game will be the 67th in the all-time series, with ECU holding an 18-14 lead when playing in Ada.

Coming off the Bench
Most players get excited and do better when they move from an off the bench role to a starting spot, but the opposite has been true for senior Ashleigh Kelman-Poto.  She has created a great spark coming off the bench for the Tigers.  Kelman-Poto started the first five games of the season and was averaging 8.8 points and 4.2 rebounds per game, but in the games as the first player off the bench she has increased her output to 11.7 points and 5.8 boards per game.

Rogers Making Noise
Freshman Kendal Rogers may have seen action in all 15 of the Tigers games this season, but she made the most of her minutes against No. 15 Arkansas Tech.  The Davis, Okla., native garnered a career-high 10 points, including six free throws and added four rebounds an assist and a block.

Tigers Leaving Their Mark
Along with having one of the best records in the NCAA at 10-5, the Tigers are ranked in the top-30 in four other categories and have three players ranked in one category individually in the top-100.  ECU is making the most noise in the turnover column, as they are ranked No. 1 with just 10.6 turnovers per game.  The Tigers are also No. 7 in assist/turnover ratio (1.25), No. 28 in personal fouls (15.7) and No. 15 in turnover margin (5.87).

Senior Erin Walling is ranked No. 67 in ATR (1.67), while fellow senior Taylor Fischer is No. 36 in three-point field-goal percentage (42.7).  The final member in the top-100 is senior Dilan Webster at No. 52 in blocks per game (1.73) and No. 36 in field-goal percentage (50.0).  

Resetting the Record Books
Senior Dilan Webster may be the leading blocker for the Tigers, but she is also making a mark for herself in the scoring columns.  In the Dec. 6 game against Northwestern, Webster became the 13th player at ECU to earn 1,000 points, currently with 1,107.  She is also among five active players in the Great American Conference that have over 800 points and become the fifth player in GAC history to hit the milestone.

Taylor Shaking it Up
Senior Taylor Fischer has moved into her starting role for ECU with strong numbers compared to a season ago.  In 2013-14, Fischer averaged 4.4 points and 1.9 rebounds per game and so far in 2014-15 she is netting 12.4 points and 3.2 boards per game.

Fischer Player of the Week
Senior Taylor Fischer has earned the first honor of the season for the Tigers, being named the Great American Conference Player of the Week for Dec. 8.  Fischer pushed the Tigers to a 4-0 mark in the GAC as she averaged 17.5 points per game in victories against Southwestern Oklahoma State and Northwestern Oklahoma State last week. Against the Bulldogs, she scored 16 points with three rebounds, three assists and three steals. Against the Rangers, she scored 19 points and she made five 3-point field goals.

First Game/First Win
First-year head coach Matt Cole started out his head coaching career the best way a coach can, with a win in his first game when the Tigers defeated Rogers State 57-54 (Nov. 15, 2014).

Already Atop the Leader Board
Senior Dilan Webster has been a force to deal with on the blocks, as she became the ECU all-time leading blocker before her junior season (2013-14).  Webster tallied 30 more blocks a year ago and has 26 this season to move her own school record to 152 career blocks.

Up Next in Kerr Activities Center
The Tigers will remain at home for the next game of the season, which starts the second half of GAC action.  ECU welcomes Northwestern Oklahoma State to the Kerr Activities Center, Saturday, Jan. 24 for a 1 p.m. tip.