GAME NOTES

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- Binghamton (0-2) lost 57-48 at Yale on Sunday. Redshirt sophomore Jasmine Sina finished with a game-high 16 points while junior guard Imani Watkins added 11 points. For the season, Watkins leads the Bearcats with 18.5 points per game.

- Penn (0-1) was defeated by Duke 68-55 on Sunday. Michelle Nwokedi finished with a game-high 24 points while Sydney Stipanovich added 14 points and 12 rebounds. The Quakers are the defending Ivy League champions and have advanced to the NCAA Tournament twice in the past three seasons.

- This marks the first meeting between Binghamton and Penn in women's basketball. Binghamton head coach Linda Cimino and Penn head coach Mike McLaughlin, however, are no strangers to coaching against each other. McLaughlin was the head coach at Division II Holy Family -- which competes in the Central Athletic Collegiate Conference (CACC) -- until coming to Penn in 2009. Cimino, meanwhile, was the head coach at Caldwell University (another CACC school) from 2006-14.

- Penn is one of five Ivy League teams the Bearcats face during the non-conference schedule this year. As a conference, the Ivy League was ninth in the RPI index last year. In addition to facing Yale on Sunday, the Bearcats have upcoming home games against Brown (Nov. 27), Columbia (Dec. 10) and Cornell (Jan. 1).

- With 940 career points, Imani Watkins ranks No. 17 all time in program history. She is 14 points away from tying Alicia Koppenhoefer (1994-98) for 16th place all time.

- Junior center Alyssa James currently has 96 career blocks. She is four rejections away from becoming just the fourth player in program history to reach the 100-block mark.

- Redshirt sophomore Jasmine Sina enters the game against Penn with 95 three-point field goals. She needs 10 more three pointers to tie Emily Szewczyk (1998-02) for 10th place all time in program history.


BEARCATS BY THE NUMBERS

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Binghamton and Penn meet for the first time in program history.

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Binghamton was picked fourth in the America East preseason poll, marking its highest projection since the 2011-12 season.

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Binghamton has four players on its roster who have either been named all-conference or all-rookie by the America East during their careers (Jasmine Sina, Imani Watkins, Alyssa James and Rebecca Carmody).

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Junior center Alyssa James currently has eight career double-doubles. Most recently, she finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds against UMass Lowell on Feb. 20, 2016.

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During the 2015-16 season, Binghamton was the eighth-most improved Division I program.

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In each of the first two games, Binghamton has turned the ball over just nine times.

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Sophomore forward Rebecca Carmody grabbed a team-high 11 rebounds against Bucknell on Nov. 11.

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Freshman guard Kai Moon scored 13 points in her debut against Bucknell on Nov. 11.

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Junior guard Imani Watkins currently has 16 career 20-point games, including her 26-point performance against Bucknell on Nov. 11.

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Redshirt sophomore guard Jasmine Sina has already hit 90 three-point field goals, which ranks No. 11 all time in program history.

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With 96 career blocks, junior center Alyssa James is just four rejections away from becoming the fourth player in Binghamton program history to reach the 100-block mark.

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Junior guard Imani Watkins currently has 940 career points, which ranks No. 17 all time in Binghamton program history. In 16th place with 954 points is Alicia Koppenhoefer.