Drury Lady Panthers (4-0) vs. Harding Lady Bisons (4-0)
Tue., Nov. 22, 2016 -- 6 p.m.
O'Reilly Family Event Center – Springfield, Mo.
 
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Pair of 4-0 teams collide
Drury and Harding both bring in 4-0 records into Tuesday's game as the two teams meet for the first time since the 2001-02 season. The Lady Panthers are coming off of a 74-43 win at Washburn on Saturday. It marked Drury's first win in eight tries at Washburn and the first time in seven years the visiting team has won in that series. Harding is coming off of a win at home over Southwestern Oklahoma St., 76-72, on Saturday. The Lady Bisons feature former West Plains High School star A'ndi Haney (9.5 ppg and 7.5 apg) and Missouri State transfer Riley Rose (8.8 ppg).
 
Head Coaches
Drury: Molly Miller (3^rd year, 56-9)
Harding: Tim Kirby (12th year, 214-107)
 
All-Time Series
Harding 1-0
 
Last Meeting
Harding 60 Drury 59 (Nov. 23, 2001 at HU)
 
Next
Drury vs. Okla. Panhandle St. (Fri., 5:30pm, at The O')
 
Drury take-a-away's
In four games, the Lady Panthers have 41 steals to their opponent's 18 – that's 10.3 steals per game to the opposition's 4.5. Drury is averaging a +8 in turnover margin forcing an average of 21.3 turnovers per game while only committing 13.3 per game. In Saturday's win at Washburn, Drury forced 29 turnovers and outscored the Ichabods 34-5 in points-off-turnovers. The Lady Panthers had 12 steals in that game with Hailey Diestelkamp collecting four of them.
 
Milestone countdown
Drury is playing the 499th game in program history on Tuesday. Friday's game against Oklahoma Panhandle State will be the 500th game all-time for the Lady Panthers since they started the program in the 2000-01 season. Drury will hit the 500-game mark on the same weekend they induct the program's first head coach, Nyla Milleson, into the Drury Athletics Hall of Fame.  
 
The Lady Panthers are just three wins shy of 400 victories all-time. Drury carries an all-time program record of 397-101 into Tuesday's game against Harding.
 
Drury has won 26 straight home games at the O'Reilly Family Event Center, a streak that started on Nov. 29, 2014. The win streak is already a program record having surpassed the previous mark of 21 consecutive home wins set from Nov. 7, 2003 to Nov. 22, 2004. The Lady Panthers' last home loss was on Nov. 28, 2014 against Pittsburg State.  
 
DU's last game
The Drury Lady Panthers used a 17-3 run in the second quarter to pull away from Washburn on their way to a 74-43 win at Lee Arena in Topeka, Kansas on Saturday.
 
The win raised Drury's record to 4-0 while Washburn dropped to 2-2.
 
Drury led 38-21 at the half after owning a 15-13 lead at the end of one quarter. The Lady Panthers kept momentum into second half outscoring the Ichabods 17-9 in the third period and led by as much as 38 in the fourth quarter.
 
Drury forced 29 turnovers from Washburn turning that into a 34-5 advantage in points off turnovers.
 
The win marked the first time in program history Drury has won at Washburn. The Lady Panthers were 0-7 all-time at Lee Arena and had been 5-10 against the Ichabods in the all-time series.
 
Paige Wilson led the Lady Panthers with 15 points hitting five three-pointers. Hailey Diestelkamp had 13 points while Daejah Bernard, Briana Jones and Emily Miller each had 10.