The Malone University women's basketball team will celebrate Senior Night this Saturday with a tough matchup against regionally-ranked Ursuline College who comes into the weekend unbeaten in Great Midwest Athletic Conference competition. The Arrows bring a 16-game winning streak into the mutual regular season finale and a 24-game winning streak against G-MAC opponents. Malone enters Saturday's contest with a pair of modest, by comparison, winning streaks of their own. The Pioneers have won eight games overall and 10 straight on their home floor.
 
Senior Night
Malone will honor its six graduating seniors prior to Saturday's contest. Among the six seniors are Rachel Goddard, Mackenzie Storlie, Alaina Schwarz, Hannah McCue, Victoria McDuffie, and Natalie Nickol who transferred to Malone after one season at Ursuline.
 
GameDay
(2/25) Malone (20-6, 11-2 G-MAC) vs. Ursuline (22-5, 13-0 G-MAC) – 7:00 pm
Video: livestream.com/maloneuniversity
Radio: ESPN 990 AM | www.espn990.com/listen.php
Stats: sidearmstats.com/malone/wbball
 
All-Time Series
The Pioneers hold a 12-6 all-time advantage over Ursuline, but the Arrows got the better of Malone with a 77-74 win in January.

Malone Notes - Roster | Schedule | Stats

• The Pioneers are coming off an 86-39 win over Bluefield State on Monday in which they hit 16 three-pointers and received a season-high 47 points from the bench. Malone now has a school-record 236 3-pointers this season and ranks 8th in the nation with 9.1 made threes per game.
• Senior point guard Rachel Goddard nailed four triples and scored a team-high 18 points in the win. In the eight games since the loss to Ursuline, in which she notched 15 points and 10 assists, Goddard is shooting 53.3% (16-30) from three-point range.
• Overall this season, Goddard is shooting 47.8% from the floor while scoring 14.8 ppg. She ranks 5th in the G-MAC in scoring, 3rd in assists (4.8 apg), and 2nd in free-throw shooting (86.7%) while leading the league in free-throw makes (104). She also is 3rd in the nation with a 3.47 assist-to-turnover ratio.
• Senior forward Hannah McCue, another outstanding free-throw shooter (81.4%), ranks top-5 in the G-MAC in scoring (14.8 ppg), rebounding (9.7 rpg), total blocks (46), and total steals (46). She also has a three-pointer in 25 of 26 games this season
• McCue is seventh in the nation in defensive rebounds per game (8.4). She spearheads a Malone defense that leads the G-MAC in fewest points allowed (59.7 ppg), opponents' field goal percentage (34.9%), and total rebounds per game (41.5 rpg).
• In the previous meeting between the two teams, Ursuline shot 45.6% from the field and 56.8% from inside the arc and limited Malone to a season-low 27 rebounds.
• The 74 points from Malone, however, were the most scored by a G-MAC opponent against Ursuline this season.
• Junior Baylen Dyrlund collected 16 points and a team-high eight rebounds in the loss to Ursuline in January. On the season Dyrlund is averaging 12.4 ppg and 6.2 rpg. She ranks 6th in the conference in shooting (48.6%) and is the third Pioneer ranking among the top-10 in free throws (77.0%).
• Pioneer sophomore Chrissie Vaughan is eighth in the conference in both made threes (52) and three-point percentage (37.4%). She has at least one trey in 22 of 25 games this season and is averaging 8.0 points a night.
• Senior wing Alaina Schwarz (4.8 ppg) has at least one three in 18 games this year.
• In her last 10 games, senior guard Mackenzie Storlie is netting 52.4% (11-21) of her three-point tries. In her third career start Tuesday against Bluefield State, Storlie totaled seven points, four assists, four rebounds, two steals, and a block.
• Freshman Dani Drayer added 13 points and nine rebounds in the win while sophomore Naomi Grandison recorded 10 points.
• Malone is 10-2 on Hal Smith Court this season with the two losses coming by three combined points.
   

Ursuline Notes - Roster | Schedule | Stats

• Ursuline comes into Osborne Hall 10-1 away from home including wins in six straight.
• The Arrows enter the game ranked 4th in the nation in assists (19.6 apg) and 10th in 3-point shooting (37.5 %). In addition to leading the conference in both of those categories, they also lead in scoring (80.4 ppg), scoring margin (+18.1 ppg), field goals (45.9%), and blocks (4.0 bpg).
• All five starters, Laney Lewis (15.9 ppg), Erica Huber (15.3 ppg), Natalie Koenig (12.7 ppg), Brigan Wymer (11.9 ppg), and Camryn Hill (10.4 ppg), rank among the top-20 scorers in the G-MAC.
• Lewis, the defending G-MAC Player of the Year, leads the conference in rebounds (12.0 rpg) and blocks (1.9 bpg). She is also 2nd in shooting (57.9%), 4th in assists (4.3 apg), and 5th in steals (1.7 spg).
• Huber is third in the G-MAC in threes (79) and 2nd in three-point percentage (44.1%), but was held to just 1-of-8 from beyond the arc by the Pioneers earlier this season.
• Koenig led the Arrows with 21 points in the win over Malone. She is the reigning G-MAC Athlete of the Week.
• Ursuline, who was ranked 4th in the most recent Midwest Regional Poll, is coming off a 122-52 rout of Bluefield State on Wednesday.
• Since the three-point win over Malone, the Arrows have defeated their last eight opponents by an average of nearly 37 points per game.