Crimson Tide Women’s Basketball Continues Homestand with Georgia Southern on Tuesday

Tuesday, November 22

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

7 p.m. CT

Alabama

Georgia Southern University

Buy tickets

Crimson Tide Women’s Basketball Continues Homestand with Georgia Southern on Tuesday

11/21/2016 5:06:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Purchase Tickets Here Game Notes Watch Live (SEC Network +)Listen Live (CTSN Radio Broadcast)Live Stats

Crimson Tide and Eagles to tip off at 7 p.m. CT in Coleman Coliseum

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama women's basketball team (3-0) welcomes the Georgia Southern Eagles (2-2) to Coleman Coliseum on Tuesday. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. CT on SEC Network +.

PROMOTIONS

8 Hoo's Q 30 for 30: If the team scores 30 points in the first quarter of the game, everyone in the stands will receive 30 percent off from Hoo's Q.
Tuscaloosa Toyota Season Long Giveaways: Throughout the season, Tuscaloosa Toyota will be giving away prizes such as an iPad Pro 9.7", Beats headphones, $50 iTunes gift cards, $50 American Express gift cards and 43" LCD televisions.

THE BROADCAST

Tuesday's game will be broadcast on SEC Network + with Eli Gold on play-by-play and Rick Moody as the analyst.
The game will also be available via the Crimson Tide Sports Network on 100.1 FM locally, with Roger Hoover and Tyler Williams calling all the action.
Fans will be able to follow along with live scoring on RollTide.com and game updates will be available on Twitter via @AlabamaWBB.

OPENING TIP

Alabama continues its seven-game homestand Tuesday when it hosts Georgia Southern. This is the longest home stretch to start a season in program history.
Alabama has had five student-athletes finish in double figures in each of its three games this season. Junior Shaquera Wade and freshman Jordan Lewis have both tallied double digits in each game, while juniors Hannah Cook and Meo Knight and freshman Ashley Knight have in two games. Juniors Quanetria Bolton, Coco Knight and Ashley Williams have each scored 10+ points in one outing.
The Tide is led in scoring, rebounding and assists by freshman Jordan Lewis, who is currently averaging 14.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game. Fellow freshman Ashley Knight leads the team in blocks with 2.7 rejections per contest.

THE SERIES

The Tide and Eagles are meeting for the ninth time overall and first since the 2011-12 season.
Alabama has won the last six games in the series with its only loss coming in the series opener, 73-66, on Jan. 31, 1975.

ABOUT GEORGIA SOUTHERN

Georgia Southern enters Tuesday's game with a 2-2 overall record. The Eagles opened the season with a pair of wins at home against North Carolina A&T (65-50) and Thomas University (106-43) before dropping their last two games, both of which came on the road, against Clemson (47-58) and Jacksonville State (55-67).
Georgia Southern is led in scoring and assists by senior Angel McGowan, who averages 16.0 points and 2.5 assists per game. She is followed closely behind in scoring by senior Patrice Butler, who adds 15.8 points and a team-best 7.8 rebounds per contest.
As a team, the Eagles have scored over 34 percent (93 of 273) of their points from three-point range. They are hitting 41.6 percent from the floor overall and 32.6 percent from beyond the arc. Georgia Southern is also outrebounding opponents 42.5-38.0 and collecting 14.0 assists per game.
The Eagles are under the direction of second-year head coach Kip Drown. In his first season, the team doubled its Sun Belt Conference win total from the season before with four. The majority of his coaching experience has come at the NCAA Division II level where he departed as No. 15 amongst active coaches at that level for wins and is currently 38th all-time in NCAA Division II for wins with stops at CSU-Pueblo and Grand Canyon.

BALANCED OFFENSE

One of Coach Curry's team goals for the season is to have at least four in double-figure points each outing. The Crimson Tide surpassed that goal in all of its games this season as five recorded 10 or more points in Alabama's three outings.

FAB FROSH

Alabama's freshmen, Ashley Knight and Jordan Lewis, have made an immediate impact in the Tide's lineup. Lewis, who has started at point guard, leads the team in scoring (16.0 ppg), rebounding (7.3 rpg) and assists (3.7 apg). Knight, the 6-5 post, averages 10.7 points per game and 6.3 rebounds per game and leads the team in blocks with 2.7 per game.

GETTING TO THE LINE

Alabama finished the 2015-16 season ranked 73rd in the nation in free throw attempts (615) and 77th in free throws made (430) while averaging 69.9 percent made per game. The Crimson Tide is off to another strong start getting to the line a total of 85 times (29 vs. New Orleans, 36 vs. Mississippi Valley State and 20 vs. Lipscomb).

#CATCHUSATCOLEMAN

On May 31, Alabama women's basketball announced it would be returning to Coleman Coliseum starting with the 2016-17 season.
The women's basketball team split time between Foster Auditorium and Coleman Coliseum from 1974-81, until permanently moving to Coleman from 1981-2011.
The Crimson Tide reopened Foster with its game against Florida on Feb. 13, 2011, following an extensive renovation of the building.
Since then, women's basketball has played all but four of its home games, which includes two season-opening doubleheaders with men's basketball and a pair of 5th Grade Fastbreak games, at Foster Auditorium.