#6 Drury Lady Panthers (15-1, 6-0) at Bellarmine Knight (8-8, 3-4)
Thur., Jan. 18, 2018 – 4:45 p.m. (central)
Knights Hall – Louisville, Ky.
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Lady Panthers continue road stint at Bellarmine
The Drury Lady Panthers play their second game of a four-game road stretch with a Thursday game at Bellarmine. Tipoff is at 4:45 p.m. (central) in Louisville, Kentucky.
Drury is ranked sixth in NCAA-II, their highest ranking in the national poll this season. The Lady Panthers are in the top 25 for the 72nd consecutive week, the longest such streak in Division II women's basketball. Drury is 15-1 and is the only team in the GLVC with an unbeaten league record at 6-0. The Lady Panthers also carry a 13-game winning streak into Thursday's game.
Bellarmine is 8-8 and 3-4 in the conference. The Knights are coming off of a 67-59 loss at home to Southern Indiana.
Drury and Bellarmine played one another three times last year with two of the games coming in the postseason. The Lady Panthers won the regular season meeting in Louisville 83-72, won the 87-62 in the GLVC semifinals in Evansville, Ind., and they ended the Knights season with a 75-57 win in Ashland, Ohio in the opening round of the NCAA-II tournament.
QUICK FACTS
Head Coaches
Drury-
Molly Miller (4th year, 97-14)
Bellarmine- Chancellor Dugan (6
th year, 100-58/27
th year, 420-347)
2016-17 series
Drury 83 Bellarmine 72 (Feb. 2, 2017 at BU)
Drury 87 Bellarmine 62 (Mar. 4, 2017 at GLVC semifinals)
Drury 75 Bellarmine 57 (Mar. 10, 2017 at NCAA-II 1st rd)
All-Time Series
Drury 13-2
STAT LEADERS
Drury
Points- #15
Heather Harman 13.1 ppg
Rebounds- #34
Hailey Diestelkamp 7.6 rpg (7th-GLVC)
Assists- #15
Heather Harman 3.4 apg (7th-GLVC)
FG%- #23 Azia Lynch .587
3's- #15
Heather Harman 36, .379 (5th-GLVC)
FT%- #14
Alice Heinzler .933 (28/30)
Bellarmine
Points- #22 Raven Merriweather 17.9 ppg (4th-GLVC)
Rebounds- #22 Raven Merriweather 6.2 rpg
Assists- #3 Breia Torrens 2.9 apg
FG%- #32 Liza Tibbs .596
3's- #22 Raven Merriweather 27, .318
FT%- #35 Beth Bowers .913 (21/23)
Up Next
Sat., Jan. 20 at Indianapolis, noon (central)
Nicoson Hall, Indianapolis, Ind.
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