University of Richmond Athletics
Women's Basketball Travels To Hampton Tuesday
11/22/2010 | Women's Basketball
Nov. 22, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. -
The Spiders (3-1) look for their third straight win against the Hampton Lady Pirates Tuesday night at 6:00 p.m. at the Hampton Convocation Center.
The Latest:
• Brittani Shells scored a game-high 28 points in each of the Spiders' wins last week and was a scorching 11-for-19 against App State with a season-best five assists while grabbing a season-high six steals. Shells followed that standout performance with another, in the form of a game-high 28 points against ACC foe NC State. Shells also dished a team-high four assist and had two steals. Shells is averaging a white-hot 28.8 ppg in the first four games of the season.
• Shells is getting plenty of help in the form of Abby Oliver and Crystal Goring with their 15.5 and 10.8 ppg, respectively. Oliver scored a season-high 19 pts off 7-for-11 shooting and a team-high 3-for-4 from long range against the Wolfpack. Goring followed Oliver with six points and a season-high 11 boards.
• Freshmen Kristina Puthoff-King and Genevieve Okoro made solid outings off the bench with 10 and nine points respectively. Okoro also grabbed six boards.
• The win was Richmond's fourth in a row over an ACC opponent and evened the series at 1-1. Richmond's bench outscored the Wolfpack, 19-9 and enjoyed 12 points off turnovers.
• Shells moved into fifth place on Richmond's all-time scoring list with 1,526 points after dropping 25 in the loss to East Tennessee State. Shells recorded nine 20-point or better games last season, and has four this year so far. Shells also had 15 game-high performances last season, and has done so in three of the Spiders' first four games.
•Shells received the league's first A-10 Player of the Week honors after scoring a career-best 34 points (a conference high) in the season opener against Western Carolina and then following that performance with a 25-point outing against East Tennessee State.
The Series:
• Hampton holds the edge in the series, 11-5, but the Spiders have won two in a row.
• The Spiders downed the Lady Pirates 77-47 in 2008-09, the largest margin of victory in the series, and won 64-46 last year in the Robins Center.
Up Next:
• The Spiders travel to Orlando for a Thanksgiving tournament hosted by Central Florida. The Spiders play host UCF Friday at 2:30 p.m. then tip-off against No. 22/25 Michigan State Saturday at noon.
