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Washburn University Ichabods (2-1, 0-0 MIAA) |
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at Drury University Panthers (3-0, 0-0 GLVC) |
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Game Notes |
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Thursday, November 21, 2013 |
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7:00 p.m. |
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Springfield, Mo. |
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O'Reilly Family Events Center (3,100) |
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106.9 FM KTPK with Mark Elliott |
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www.wusports.com/live (stats, video, audio); twitter.com @wusports #WeAreWU |
Micro-Blogging the Bods
(Around) 140-character or less tweets highlighting the season
This will be the women's basketball team's first season as Ichabods. Washburn's female teams joined the male teams as Ichabods this year, dropping the Lady Blues nickname.
Washburn and Drury are meeting for the 13th time in school history and for the 7th straight year. Washburn leads the series 9-3 but lost the last game at Drury, 53-48 on 11/22/11.
Drury is 3-0 and is opening its season by playing five straight MIAA teams. The Panthers beat MSSU by 21 points then beat SBU by just a point and then NSU by two points in double overtime.
The Ichabods are ending a four-game road trip to open the season, all against NCAA II opponents. They won't play at home until Saturday against Southwestern.
The 94 points scored against Barry on November 10 were the most against an NCAA II school since posting 95 against MWSU in 2010-11. Washburn is averaging 88.0 points this year after scoring 62.8 a game last year.
Casyn Buchman set career highs in each game the opening weekend with 14 points against NSU and 24 against Barry. The junior's previous high was 13 against ESU. She shot 52% nd 50% from 3-point range.
Washburn centers Kara Lee and Honor Duvall have each started but the one coming off the bench has scored more points. Duvall averages 12.3 and Lee 13.7 while shooting 71% from the field.
Brittney Lynch had her first career double-double with 13 points and a career-high 11 rebounds against NSU.
The Ichabods were picked third in the MIAA coaches and media preseason polls. The coaches picked Emporia State first and the media picked Central Missouri first.
Washburn was ranked 16th in the USA Today Sports poll this week. Washburn has been ranked in 175 of the last 176 polls.
Ron McHenry is 344-72 (.827) in his 14th year at Washburn. He is the winningest DII coach among those with at least 10 years experience and he's led Washburn to 12 straight NCAA tournaments.
Washburn-Drury rivalry continues with game in Springfield Thursday
Washburn's second longest current non-conference rivalry will resume Thursday with a 7 p.m. game against Drury at the O'Reilly Family Events Center. The Ichabods and Panthers have played every year since 2007-08 and Washburn holds a 4-2 advantage in the series since then and a 9-3 advantage all-time against Drury.
Country Legends 106.9 FM will carry the game with Mark Elliott calling the action. Links to live stats, video and audio are available at wusports.com/live.
The Ichabods improved to 2-1 with an 83-62 win Saturday against Ouachita Baptist in a neutral-site game in Jessieville, Ark. Janelle Travis scored 22 points off six 3-pointers and an 8 for 15 performance from the field. Overall, Casyn Buchman leads Washburn with 18.0 points a game and she's shooting 52 percent from the field.
Drury is 3-0 after 69-67, double overtime win at Northeastern State on Saturday. The Panthers open their season against five straight MIAA teams. Kylie Williamson is leading the team with 12.3 points a game and Annie Armstrong has 11.0 a game while shooting .526 from the field.
Washburn is wrapping up a four-game, season opening road trip against NCAA Division II opponents and won't play at home until Saturday against Southwestern (Kan.).
No more Lady Blues
Washburn's female athletic teams dropped the Lady Blues nickname over the summer and starting this school year, all Washburn teams are known as Ichabods. The change gives all athletic teams one of Washburn's key early benefactors, Ichabod Washburn, as their nickname.
Washburn pledged $25,000 to Lincoln College after its founding in 1865 and the school later changed its name to Washburn University and the men's teams eventually took the Ichabods nickname. The women's basketball team had been using the Lady Blues nickname since its inception in 1969-70.
McHenry begins 14th season at Washburn as NCAA II's winningest active coach
Washburn head coach Ron McHenry returns for his 14th season at Washburn with the highest winning percentage among active NCAA II coaches with at least 10 years at four-year schools.
McHenry is 344-72 (.827) overall and he will need just four more conference wins to get his 200th MIAA victory. He's 196-46 (.810) in MIAA games.
McHenry is a four-time MIAA coach of the year and he has eight MIAA regular season titles. He's been to 12 straight NCAA tournaments and he coached Washburn to an NCAA II national title in 2004-05.
He started the year second all-time in NCAA II history among coaches with at least 10 years with an .828 winning percentage. Lloyd Clark holds the record with an .834 winning percentage at Delta State from 1984-2002.
Washburn moves up six spots to No. 16 in national poll
The Ichabods started the year 2-1 and moved up six spots to 16th in the nation in this week's USA Today Sports national poll released Tuesday, the first of the regular season.
The Ichabods were picked 22nd in the preseason poll after they finished last year ranked 14th in the nation with a 23-6 season and a second straight MIAA title with a 16-2 record. They have now been ranked in 175 of the last 176 polls, dating back to week three of the 2002-03 season. The final poll of the 2010-11 season was the last time Washburn was not ranked.
Emporia State is the highest ranked MIAA team with a No. 4 ranking after a 5-0 start to the season. The Ichabods and Hornets won't play until February as they battle February 5 in Topeka and February 22 in Emporia.
Central Missouri is sixth in the poll and Washburn will travel to UCM January 6. MIAA opponents Pittsburg State, Central Oklahoma and Fort Hays State and non-conference opponent Drury all earned votes in the poll but were not ranked. Previous opponent Nova Southeastern moved from fourth to fifth.
MIAA coaches and media pick Ichabods third in preseason poll
The Ichabods will have some work to do if they are going to repeat as MIAA champions for a third straight time. The conference coaches and media both picked Washburn to finish third in the MIAA preseason women's basketball polls released October 24.
Washburn earned one first-place vote among the league's 14 head coaches and finished with 143 points in the poll. The coaches picked Emporia State first with 164 points and Central Missouri earned 158 to finish second in the voting. The media picked UCM first with 359 points and ESU second with 338. Washburn earned 312 votes and six of the 27 first-place votes. Fort Hays State was picked fourth and Pittsburg State was fifth in both polls.
Washburn won the MIAA last year with a 16-2 record and Central Missouri and Northeastern State tied for second with 14-4 records. Emporia State finished fourth at 13-5 and won the MIAA postseason tournament.
Washburn suiting just 11, including just one senior, to start season
Washburn will suit up just 11 of the 13 players on its roster and will have just one senior in Division I transfer Kara Lee.
Four juniors and a sophomore make up the Ichabods' five returners. Among the eight newcomers, junior Taylor Ignoto will not be eligible until the end of the fall semester and freshman Jada Lynch was injured in the preseason and will take a redshirt.
Quick history review
In Washburn's 44 years of basketball since 1969-70, the Ichabods are 827-357-1 (.698) in 1185 games. They have 13 MIAA regular season titles and nine tournament titles since joining the league in 1989-90.
Thirty all-America awards have been won between 16 different players and Washburn has seven MIAA MVPs and 22 MIAA first-teamers.
The Ichabods won the 2004-05 NCAA II national title and set an NCAA II record with a 51-game winning streak stretching from 2004-05 into the 2005-06 season. Guard Jennifer Harris was the NCAA II player of the year in 2005-06 and was the No. 20 pick in the 2006 WNBA Draft.
Buchman starts year setting career highs each game
Junior guard Casyn Buchman topped her career high of 13 points with 14 points in the season opener at Nova Southeastern. She then upped that with 24 points the next game against Barry. Buchman shot 52 percent in the two games and 50 percent from 3-point range. She made a career-high four 3-points against Barry with a career-high seven rebounds.
Buchman scored 16 points Saturday against OBU as she was 7 of 13 from the field but 0 of 4 from 3-point range. She's averaging 18.0 points a game this year to lead the team.
Washburn bigs competing early for starts, playing time
Washburn center Honor Duvall, a junior, has started the last two games at Center for Washburn while senior Kara Lee Started the season opener.
Both players are NCAA I transfers in their first year at Washburn. Lee played at UMKC and Duvall played at Long Island.
In each game, the player that came off the bench has led in scoring.
Duvall came off the bench against Nova Southeastern to lead Washburn with 21 points as she was 7 of 16 from the field and 7 of 8 from the free throw line. She grabbed six rebounds.
That performance earned her a start against Barry but it was Lee who led Washburn inside as she was 7 of 9 from the field and 4 of 4 from the line for 18 points with seven rebounds.
Duvall then started against Saturday against OBU and scored four points as she fouled out after playing nine minutes. Lee scored 15 points off the bench that game with a 5-7 performance from the field.
Through three games, Duvall is averaging 12.3 points and 3.7 rebounds and shooting 50 percent. Lee is shooting 71 percent with 13.7 points and 4.7 rebounds a game.
Final notes on the Ouachita Baptist game
Washburn won its first ever game against Ouachita Baptist.
The Ichabods also won in the state of Arkansas for the first time since winning the national title in Hot Springs in 2004-05.
Both teams were scoreless the first 3:46 of the game and OBU was scoreless the first 7:49 as Washburn built a 15-0 lead.
Washburn shot .576 from the field and hasn't shot that high since hitting at least that mark three times in 2011-12.
Coming up next
Washburn will play its first home game of the season Saturday at 1 p.m. against Southwestern. This will be the eighth straight year they have met in Lee Arena with Washburn winning all of them by an average of 41.0 points a game.
