George Washington University Athletics
GW Heads To Bluegrass' WKU For Road TV Game
11/20/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Nov. 20, 2008
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BOWLING GREEN, KY - George Washington takes to the road for the first time this season to face Western Kentucky Friday at 8:00 pm (ET) in a contest televised on the Hilltopper Sports Satellite Network (HSSN) and Fox College Sports Atlantic (FCS-Atlantic). Jeff Younglove will call the action with Paul Sanderford providing analysis.
Fans can follow live stats via WKU's StatTracker once the game has started.
The Colonials, who are 2-1 all-time against WKU, return to Kentucky state and Bowling Green for the first time in more than a decade after the Lady Toppers paid a visit to the District for GW's Thanksgiving Classic last November. GW used a 14-2 run early in the second half after leading 37-35 at the break to pull away for an 80-63 victory over WKU in the Classic finale last Nov. 24.
The teams' split the previous two meetings in a home-and-home series spanning the 1996-97 and 1997-98 seasons. GW climbed into the Top 25 for the first time in the 1996-97 season with an 88-63 home win over #22 WKU on Feb. 8. The following January, #19 WKU handed GW a 78-53 loss at Diddle Arena.
Western Kentucky (1-1) is the first of three Sun Belt Conference opponents for GW this season with a Thanksgiving meeting against South Alabama and Dec. 16 contest against Troy still looming on the schedule. The Colonials are 5-3 all-time against current Sun Belt members, including a combined 4-1 versus the Lady Toppers and Jaguars (2-0).
First-year head coach Mike Bozeman planned on "shortening the rotation" in GW's previous outing against Coppin State Monday night. That plan didn't last long as the Colonials jumped out to a 20-point lead just over 11 minutes into the game and cruised to a 77-36 victory in which their bench outscored both the Eagles (45-36) and own starting five (45-32). Freshman Kay-Kay Allums led with 12 points in 24 minutes off the bench, while senior Jazmine Adair hit her first five shots for 10 points, all in the first half.
Western Kentucky will play a third straight opponent that participated in last year's NCAA Tournament with GW Friday night after hosting Murray State and 12th-ranked Vanderbilt last weekend. WKU sped past the Racers, 95-78, last Friday behind Arnika Brown's 27-point, 17-rebound double-double. Despite another double-double from Brown (20p/16r), the Lady Toppers fell to the nationally ranked Commodores 90-72 Sunday night. Brown, the reigning Sun Belt Freshman of the Year, earned conference Player of the Week honors for her back-to-back double-double debut. Senior Dominique Duck, who was named to the GW Thanksgiving Classic All-Tourney Team last year, is the Sun Belt's Preseason Player of the Year after averaging 11.5 points and 4.4 boards for a Lady Toppers team that finished 26-8 overall and won the SBC regular season and tournament titles to reach the NCAA Tournament.
