ADA – The East Central University women's basketball team will play its third and fourth Great American Conference games of the 2017-18 season this weekend. The Tigers are headed to Arkansas to face Southern Arkansas, Thursday, Nov. 30 at 5:30 p.m. and then Arkansas-Monticello, Saturday, Dec. 2 at 1 p.m.
Tiger Quick Hits
• ECU has four players that are averaging 10.0-or-more points per game
• Sr.
Alexa Adair: 14.0 ppg; 1.8 rpg, 10 A, 2 S
• Sr. Devon Branch: 12.0 ppg; 4.3 rpg; 5 A; 2 B; 3 S
• Jr. Lakin Preisner: 10.5 ppg; 5.0 rpg; 3 A; 2 B; 11 S; .481 FG%; .417 3PT FG%; 1.000 FT%
• Lakin Preisner is the only player in the GAC that is perfect from the FT line (11-11)
• 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.
• ECU ranked sixth in the 2017-18 GAC Preseason Poll
• ECU will face SAU for the 19th time in the all-time series
• Tigers lead 11-8 overall and 7-6 in the GAC
• ECU broke a four-game losing streak to the Muleriders in the last meeting.
• Tigers are 1-7 when playing on the road
• Last year ECU went 1-1 against SAU
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Alexa Adair: 22 P; 6 R; 5 A; 2 S
• Devon Branch: 19 P; 5 R; 2 A; 2 S
• Madison Nickens (at home only): 22 P; 7-10 FG; 6-8 3PT FG; 2-2 FT
• ECU will face UAM for the 18th time in the all-time series
• Tigers lead 10-7 overall and 9-3 in the GAC
• Teams have split the games for the last two seasons, each winning at home
• ECU is 4-2 when playing the Cotton Blossoms on the road
• Last year the Tigers went 1-1 against UAM, with both teams winning at home
• Devon Branch: 30 P; 7 R; 5 A; 2 S
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Alexa Adair: 21 P; 10 R; 1 A; 2 S
• This weekend's games will end a four-game road trip
