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Cassidy Roberts
Zach Leibmann

Women's Basketball Hosts UMBC in Regular Season Finale

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Cassidy Roberts

Bearcats and Retrievers Tip Off Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.

STORY LINES

- Depending on the outcome of the game against UMBC, the Bearcats will be seeded anywhere from No. 6 to No. 8 in the upcoming America East Tournament.

- Binghamton (8-19, 4-13 AE) won 60-49 over New Hampshire on Senior Day this past Saturday. Junior guard Denai Bowman netted a team-best 15 points while senior guard Hayley Moore netted 12 points.

- Junior forward Birna Benonysdottir ranks second in the America East with 14.7 points per game while Bowman is third (14.3 ppg.). Bowman is also tied for third in assists (3.8 ppg.) and second in steals (1.8 spg.). Junior forward Clare Traeger is tied for second in the conference in rebounding (8.0 rpg.) while Benonysdottir is tied for eighth in blocks (0.9 bpg.). 

- As a team, Binghamton is fourth in the conference in free throw percentage (.722). The Bearcats are also second in the nation in three-point field goal percentage defense (.233).

- Over the past four games, the Bearcats have averaged 63.5 points per game. They have shot an average of 46.2 percent from the floor during that stretch.

- UMBC (3-22, 2-14 AE) lost 71-47 to Maine on Sunday. Onome-Juliet Esadah led the Retrievers with 14 points while Keelah Dixon finished with 13 points. Janee'a Summers leads UMBC and ranks ninth in the America East with 12.1 points per game.  

- Binghamton leads the all-time series 27-13. Most recently, the Bearcats won 67-44 in Baltimore on Jan. 29. Benonysdottir finished with 20 points while Bowman had 17 points and senior guard Hayley Moore added 14 points. 


BEARCATS BY THE NUMBERS

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As a team, Binghamton ranks second in the nation in three-point field goal percentage defense (23.3%)

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Junior forward Clare Traeger is tied for second in the conference with 8.0 rebounds per game. 

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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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Freshman forward Genevieve Coleman has been named the America East Rookie of the Week three times this season (Nov. 15, Jan. 10 & Jan. 31). 

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Binghamton had an overall team GPA of 3.30 during the Fall 2021 semester. Freshman forward Genevieve Coleman earned a perfect 4.0 GPA. 

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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 Denai Bowman has reached the 20-point mark in scoring 10 times during her career at Binghamton. Most recently, she netted 22 points against Vermont on Feb. 23. 

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Junior guard Zahra Barnes tied her career high with 10 points against Siena on Nov. 9.

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Junior guard Cassidy Roberts finished with 11 points, 10 rebounds and six steals against Hartford on Jan. 26.

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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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Senior guard Hayley Moore tied her career high with 16 points against Hartford on Feb. 21.

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Junior forward Clare Traeger grabbed a career-high 18 rebounds against Vermont on Feb. 6.

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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.


 
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