ADA – After over 15 days off, the East Central University women's basketball team will return to the hardwood to face Central Oklahoma, Saturday, Dec. 30 at Hamilton Field House at 1:30 p.m. The game is the final non-conference game on the 2017-18 regular schedule for the Tigers, who will return to Great American Conference action, Jan. 4 at the Kerr Activities Center.
Tiger Quick Hits
• ECU has two players that are averaging 10.0-or-more points per game
• Sr. Devon Branch: 17.0 ppg; 6.1 rpg; .375 (39-96) FG%; .356 (21-59) 3PT%
• Jr. Lakin Preisner: 12.1 ppg; 5.4 rpg; .453 (29-64) FG%; .438 (14-32) 3PT% .929 (13-14) FT%
• Sr. Devon Branch was named GAC Player of the Week for Dec. 4
• Averaged 25.0 ppg; 10.0 rpg; .424 (14-33) FG%; .429 (9-21) 3PT FG%; .813 (13-16) FT%
• Second best start in GAC action (3-1) since starting the league
• 2014-15: 4-0
• 2017-18: 3-1 / 2012-13: 3-1
• Lakin Preisner is the one of two players in GAC action that is perfect from the FT line (9-9)
• ECU is ranked No. 1 in 3PT FG Made in the GAC (9.3) and No. 12 in the NCAA
• ECU is ranked in the Top-50 in five NCAA Categories, with four of those ranking No. 1 in GAC
• Devon Branch and Laiken Preisner each ranked in the Top-100 in two NCAA Categories
• Branch: No. 17 3PT/Gm (3.00): No. 1 GAC / No. 79 PPG (17.0)
• Preisner: No. 38 3PT% (43.8) / No. 79 SPG (2.43)
• This will be the final non-conference regular-season game of the season for ECU
• The game is exactly two years from the last meeting between the two teams (Dec. 30, 2015)
• UCO leads series 22-13, 13-4 on their court and has a 13-game winning-streak
• Tigers have three players who have seen action against the Bronchos
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Alexa Adair: 2 GP; 17 P; 2 R; 2 S
• Aalyiah Blakley: 1 GP; 10 P; 4 R
• Tia Williams: 1 GP; 2 P; 1 R; 1 A
• UCO has four players who have seen action against ECU
• Madison Lee: 1 G; 2 P, 2 R, 1 S
• Sadie Mason: 1 G; 7 P; 2 R; 1 S
• Blake Blessington: 1 G; 10 P, 3 R; 1 A; 1 S
• Megan Womack: 1 G; 2 P; 2 R
• UCO is ranked No. 16 in the WBCA Poll
• Played Southern Nazarene (W, 72-56) & Northwestern (W, 88-50) from the GAC this year