The Keiser women's basketball closes out the 2022-23 regular season with a home game versus the Ave Maria Gyrenes on Saturday, February 18. Game time from the Student Life Center is set for 2:00 PM. Prior to the game, the Seahawks will honor their three seniors (
Shykim Gillion,
Andressa Nascimento, and
Kennedy Schlabach), who will be playing the final regular season home game of their Keiser careers.
The Seahawks are coming off an 84-80 overtime win at Southeastern and are looking to claim their fourth straight SUN victory.
Keiser Seahawks (16-11, 7-8 SUN) vs.
Ave Maria (17-10, 8-7 SUN)
Saturday, February 18 - 2:00 PM
Student Life Center, West Palm Beach, Fla.
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LIVE STATS: SIDEARM STATS
ADMISSION: General Admission $8 / Students, Faculty, and Staff Free
- Saturday marks the 35th meeting all-time between Keiser and Ave Maria.
- The series history is tied, 17-17.
- The last meeting between the two teams resulted an 57-51 loss for the Seahawks on January 12, 2023, in Ave Maria, Florida.
- In that game, Keiser was held scoreless in the final 1:20 of the game, dropping to 3-4 in Sun Conference action. Shykim Gillion led all Seahawks with 12 points while Elise Ellison-Coons notched a team-best nine boards to go along with 10 points.
- Keiser is looking to snap a three-game skid to the Gyrenes.
- The Seahawks are 7-8 all-time versus the Gyrenes in West Palm Beach, Florida.
- The Seahawks are 15-13 all-time versus AMU in Sun Conference action.
- The Seahawks are averaging 60.9 points per game all-time versus the Fire.
- Over the last 10 contests, the series is tied, 5-5.
- Prior to the contest, Keiser will recognize its senior class (Shykim Gillion, Andressa Nascimento, and Kennedy Schlabach), who will be playing the final regular season home game of their KU careers.
- Keiser enters Saturday's contest with a 16-11 record (7-8 SUN).
- The Seahawks currently sit sixth in the SUN Standings with one game remaining in the regular season.
- Keiser is 3-4 this season in home conference games.
- The Seahawks enter Saturday having won three straight in Sun Conference action.
- The Seahawks are coming off an 84-80 (OT) win over the Southeastern Fire on Thursday.
- In that game, Kennedy Schlabach scored a team-high 24 points, including a 9-of-10 performance from the free-throw line.
- Also scoring in double-figures were Janiece Thomas (18), Julia Fitzwater (12), and Shykim Gillion (10).
- Schlabach's 20-point outing was her seventh of the season.
- Thomas' 18 points were a season high for the first-year Seahawk.
- All 12 of Fitzwater's points came in the second quarter.
- Gillion also led Keiser in rebounding with 10 for her first double-double of the season.
- With three 3-pointers made on Thursday, Schlabach increased her team-leading total to 78 this season - No. 2 in the Keiser single-season record books.
- Entering Saturday, Schlabach ranks No. 4 in the conference in scoring (15.7 ppg).
- Elise Ellison-Coons currently ranks No. 5 in the SUN in rebounds per game (8.1).
- Schlabach leads in the conference in free-throw percentage (.876). She also leads the conference in 3-point field goal percentage (35.5), averaging a league-best 2.9 treys per game.
- The native of Berlin, Ohio, also ranks No. 2 in assists (110), averaging 4.1 per game.
- Gillion, who leads the team in steals (59), ranks No. 3 in the conference in steals per contest (2.2).
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