Women's Basketball Game Notes - Wake Forest vs. Delaware
12/9/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Dec. 9, 2011
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest will entertain nationally ranked Delaware (22/25) on Sunday, Dec. 11, at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The game is set to tip-off at 2 p.m.
How to Catch the Game
• The game will be streamed live online on WakeForestSports.com and can also be heard on the Wake Forest Sports Network from IMG College. Cabell Philpott (play-by-play) and Roper Halverson (analyst) will have the call.
Last Time Out
• Wake Forest had four players score in double-figures as it posted a 90-67 victory over visiting Radford last Wednesday.
• Sophomore Lindsy Wright scored a career-high 18 points on 7-of-10 from the floor. She also grabbed five boards in the win.
• Junior Sandra Garcia matched Wright with 18 points. Garcia was also a perfect 11-of-11 from the free throw line.
• Fellow junior Lakevia Boykin had 16 points to go along with her season-best five assists while sophomore point guard Chelsea Douglas chipped-in with 14 points, five assists and a game-high four steals.
• The Deacs forced Radford into committing a season-high 26 turnovers but the Highlanders won the battle on the boards, 45-38.
Meet the Blue Hens
• Delaware is off to a 7-0 start which is the best start in school-history. As a result, the Blue Hens are ranked in the top-25 for the first time ever. UD is ranked No. 22 in the AP Poll and No. 25 in the Coaches Poll.
• Delaware is coming off a 77-45 thumping of Yale in its last game on Dec. 5.
• Junior guard Elena Delle Donne is the nation's leading scorer at better than 29 points per game. She is also averaging 10 rebounds per game and has recorded a team-best 18 blocked shots. Delle Donne is shooting 58 percent from the floor as well as 58 percent from beyond the arc.
• The Blue Hens have had the same starting five for all seven games this season and the starting-five is accounting for more than 77 percent of the team's scoring.
• Delaware head coach Tina Martin is in her 16th year with the program and is one of the most successful coaches in school-history. She has a career-record of 285-175 (.619) and has posted 20 wins each of the last two seasons.
Series History
• This will be just the second meeting all-time between Delaware and Wake Forest.
• The Deacs won the only previous meeting, squeaking past the Blue Hens 63-62 on Dec. 9, 1989 in the Tobacco Road Classic in Winston-Salem.
Next Up...
• The Demon Deacons will take the next week off for final exams before hosting Howard at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18.
