Game Information
Opponent: Drake Site (Venue): Murray, Ky. (CFSB Center)
Date/Game Time: Thursday, Feb. 15 2024
Audio: WNBS 1340AM PxP: Jeremy Rose
TV: ESPN+
Live Stats: GoRacers.com
Twitter In Game: @RacersWBB
MUR Record (Streak): 15-6 (W2) DRA (Streak): 18-5 (W3)
MUR Last Game: Win, 95-89 at Missouri State (Feb. 11)
DRA Last Game: Win, 79-64 vs Illinois State (Feb. 10)
All-Time Series vs. DRA: 0-3
The Murray State Women’s Basketball Team returns home for their 22th game of the season to host Drake, Thursday.
The Racers are coming off an 95-89 win at Missouri State, Sunday, where they hand the Lady Bear their first home loss of the season.
This will the fourth meeting between Murray State and Drake. The Racers have lost all three of their previous meetings.
Notes
Opponent: Drake Site (Venue): Murray, Ky. (CFSB Center)
Date/Game Time: Thursday, Feb. 15 2024
Audio: WNBS 1340AM PxP: Jeremy Rose
TV: ESPN+
Live Stats: GoRacers.com
Twitter In Game: @RacersWBB
MUR Record (Streak): 15-6 (W2) DRA (Streak): 18-5 (W3)
MUR Last Game: Win, 95-89 at Missouri State (Feb. 11)
DRA Last Game: Win, 79-64 vs Illinois State (Feb. 10)
All-Time Series vs. DRA: 0-3
The Murray State Women’s Basketball Team returns home for their 22th game of the season to host Drake, Thursday.
The Racers are coming off an 95-89 win at Missouri State, Sunday, where they hand the Lady Bear their first home loss of the season.
This will the fourth meeting between Murray State and Drake. The Racers have lost all three of their previous meetings.
Notes
- MSU enters the game with the fourth-highest scoring offense in the nation with 87.8 points per game. They have 11 90-plus point games this season.
- They remain the highest offensive team in the Missouri Valley Conference.
- The Racers lead the nation in bench points with 38.6 points per game.
- Bria Sanders-Woods had a career-high night at Missouri State by posting 29 points.
- Ford posted a career-high of 27 points against Southern Illinois, Friday.
- Ford has posted seven consecutive double-digit-point games.
- Katelyn Young now has 2,073 points and is 214 points away from tying the program’s scoring record.
- Young posted her seventh double-double against at Southern Illinois with 17 points and 10 rebounds.
- Young is currently second int he Missouri Valley Conference in points per game with 18.4.
- Young was included in the 2024 Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Mid-Season Watch List by Her Hoop Stats.
- Rechelle Turner enters her seventh season after guiding the Racers through their inaugural MVC season.
Scouting Drake
- Drake tops the Missouri Valley Conference standings with a 11-1 conference play record.
- The Bulldogs has two of the top-three scorers in The Valley. They are led by Katie Dinnebier who leads the conference in points with 18.7 per game followed by Grace Berg who is third in the conference with 17.6 points per game.
- Dinnebier is fourth in the conference in field goal percentage with .528.
- Anna Miller leads the conference in rebounds with 9.4 per game.
What a Racer Win Means?
- The Racers will be 16-6 in the season and 9-4 in conference play.
- They will be the second team to beat Drake in conference play after Missouri State.
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