ADA – The East Central University women's basketball team will head to Colorado for two games over Thanksgiving weekend. The Tigers will first face Colorado School of Mines, Friday, Nov. 24 at 6 p.m. in Golden, Colo. ECU will then move on to Denver, Colo., to face Regis, Saturday, Nov. 25 at 2 p.m.
Tiger Quick Hits
• ECU split the opening weekend for 2017-18 and in the GAC
• The Tigers were led by senior
Alexa Adair
• 22 ppg; 2.0 rpg; 6 assists; 2 steals; .441 (15-of-34) FG%
• ECU has four players that averaged 10.0-or-more points per game
• Sr. Devon Branch: 13.5 ppg; 3.5 rpg; 4 assists; 2 steals; .348 (8-of-23) FG%
• Jr. Lakin Preisner: 12.5 ppg; 4.5 rpg; 2 assists; 7 steals; .500 (7-of-14) FG%
• Maci Hanson: 10.0 ppg; 3.0 rpg; 5 assists; 1 steal; .429 (6-of-14) FG%
• Both games this weekend will be the first meetings in the all-time series
• ECU played one exhibition game at Oklahoma State (L, 46-110)
• Lakin Preisner: 9 pts, 5 reb., 2 asst., 4-of-7 field goals; 1-of-4 three-point field goals
• Aalyiah Blakley: 8 pts; 3 reb., 1 asst.
• The Tigers lost two players from 2016-17 and have added four players for 2017-18
• ECU has three seniors on the 2017-18 team
• Devon Branch: 14.3 pts., 4.1 reb., 24 asst., 18 steals, .339 (130-of-384) field goal pct.
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Alexa Adair: 7.4 pts., 2.6 reb., 48 asst., 24 steals
• Aaliyah Blakley: 5.6 pts., 5.1 reb., 39 asst., 17 steals, 4 blocks, .313 (51-of-163) field goal pct.
• ECU ranked sixth in the 2017-18 GAC Preseason Poll
• The Tigers finished fifth in the GAC in 2016-17
• ECU advanced to the GAC tournament for the sixth-straight season
