STORY LINES
- Binghamton (3-4) lost 79-68 at Lehigh on Saturday against a Mountain Hawk team ranked No. 19 in the College Insider Mid-Major Poll. Junior guard
Denai Bowman poured in a career-high 27 points to go along with four rebounds, two blocks and four steals. Junior forward
Birna Benonysdottir added 19 points.
- Bowman ranks third in the America East with 13.3 points per game. She is also tied for first with 2.4 steals per game, is fourth with 3.4 assists per game and fifth with 1.0 blocks per contest. Junior forward
Clare Traeger, meanwhile, is second in the conference with 8.1 steals per game. As a team, the Bearcats rank second in the America East in scoring (65.1 ppg.), assists (14.4 apg.) and steals (10.00 spg).
- Pitt-Johnstown (3-4) is a NCAA Division II school that competes in the Pennsylvania State Athlete Conference (PSAC). Most recently, the Mountain Cats defeated Millersville 63-56. Makalyn Clapper netted a career-high 23 points in the victory.
- Cassidy Crawford leads the Mountain Cats with 12.8 points and 7.5 rebounds per game so far this season.
- Binghamton and Pitt-Johnstown meet for the first time in 21 years, when both teams competed at the Division II level. The Bearcats own a 2-0 lead in the all-time series. The most recent meeting was a 79-65 Binghamton win on Dec. 8, 2000 in the opening round of the West Chester (Pa.) Tournament.
BEARCATS BY THE NUMBERS
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Junior guard Denai Bowman leads the America East with 2.4 steals per game.
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Senior guard Hayley Moore averaged a team-best 1.8 three-point field goals per game last season.
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Binghamton has started a pair of newcomers this season - junior forward Jalyn Van Dyke and freshman forward Genevieve Coleman.
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Binghamton currently ranks second in the America East in scoring (65.1 ppg.), assists (14.4) and steals (10.0 spg.).
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Two Binghamton players have been named the America East Rookie of the Week so far this season - Genevieve Coleman (Nov. 15) and Ella Wanzer (Nov. 29).
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Junior guard Denai Bowman has reached the 20-point mark in scoring six times during her career at Binghamton, including a career-high 23 points against Siena on Nov. 9.
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Junior forward Clare Traeger ranks second in the America East with 8.1 rebounds per game.
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Junior guard Denai Bowman made all nine of her free throw attempts against Siena on Nov. 9.
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Junior guard Zahra Barnes tied her career high with 10 points against Siena on Nov. 9.
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As a team, the Bearcats recorded a season-best 14 steals against Fairleigh Dickinson on Dec. 1.
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Freshman guard Ella Wanzer scored a career-high 15 points against Mansfield on Nov. 23.
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Junior forward Birna Benonysdottir finished with a career-high 27 points against Mansfield on Nov. 23.
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The 31 points scored in the fourth period against Canisius on Nov. 13 is the highest total ever recorded by the Bearcats in a period since the NCAA went to four quarters for women's basketball in 2015.