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This will be the second meeting between Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) and Texas. The Longhorns visited CCSU on January 11, 1978 and left with a 100 to 52 win. Texas has not played any other member of the Northeast Conference. Both teams have played three games so far. Texas is 3-0 while CCSU fell to Hartford in their last outing to come in at 2-1. Jaclyn Babe, (twin?) sister of Jessica Babe, returns after being named a second team All NEC last season. Kristen Daamen is the Blue Devils career shot blocker entering this season.
CCSU is an experienced team with four of the five starters having at least 15 starts. The fifth starter played in all 29 games and started two. All of the returners have at least one start under their belt.
Central Connecticut State is led in scoring by a trio of guards: Jaclyn Babe (# 1, 5-8 Sr. G) with 22 ppg, Jessica Babe (# 5, 5-5 Jr. G) with 10.3 ppg and Kaley Watras (# 3, 5-9 Soph. G) at 10 ppg. Kristen Daamen (# 6-.3 Sr. C) adds 6.7 ppg while Lauren Arbogast (# 11, 6-2 Jr. F) is the top scorer off the bench with an average of 6.3 ppg. Those five, Jaclyn Babe (25-52, 48.1%), Jessica Babe (9-24, 37.5%), Watras (10/24, 41.7%), Daamen (9-19, 47.4%) and Arbogast (7-23, 30.4%), have made 82.2% of the Blue Devils’ FGs and taken 76.3% of the FGs attempted. Jaclyn Babe is the leader in 3pters made and taken (3-8, 37.5%). Her two other starting backcourt mates, Jessica Babe (1-7, 14.3%) and Kaley Watras (2-5, 40%) along with Nicole Ferguson (# 21, 6-0 Fr. F; 1-4, 25%) are other threats from BTA. CCSU’s starting backcourt gets to the FT often and convert their FTs. Jaclyn Babe is 13-13; Jessica Babe is 12-13 (92.3%) and Watras is 8-11 (72.7%). Arbogast is 4-4 while Jaleen Thomas (# 22, 5-10 Jr. G/F) is also perfect on two FT attempts. As a team, the Blue Devils are hitting 82.7%.
Jessica Babe, at 5-5, is the Blue Devils leading rebounder at 8.3 rpg. Watras and Arbogast add 4 rpg each. The Babe sisters top the team in assists with Jessica averaging 5.3 apg and Jaclyn adding 3 apg. To date, CCSU has not been a big blocking team with Daamen averaging 1 block a game. The 6-3 senior is the Blue Devils career shot blocker, entering this season with 140 blocks. Jaclyn Babe is the leader in steals with 18 for the season, an average of 6 per game. Jessica Babe has 9 steals (3 spg). Those two total 27 steals. In comparison, Texas has 29 steals as a team total in the same number of games.
Like the Horns, the Blue Devils have 14 players on the roster. Ten have played in all three games. Two have gotten into one game each and two have yet to play. Of the ten that have played in all games, all are averaging at least 10 minutes a game. Jaclyn Babe (37.3 mpg) and Jessica Babe (35.7 mpg) play almost all of the game while Watras (29.3 mpg), Daamen (26 mpg) and Arbogast (21.3 mpg) all average over 20 mpg. The Babe sisters, Daamen, Watras and Thomas have been the starters. Arbogast, Ferguson, Raven Makins (# 12, 5-7 Fr. G), Amanda Harrington (# 13, 6-3 RS Fr. F/C), and Johnna Fisher (# 34, 6-3 Soph. C) provide significant minutes off the bench.
Horns are led by two players in double figures: Nneka at 25 ppg and Chassidy at 19 ppg. Cokie (9.3 ppg) and Empress (8 ppg) are just off double figures. The bench is contributing 11.5 ppg. Nneka’s FG% of 71.1 is first on the team and in the Big 12. Iman (57.1%) and Cokie (52.4%) are the other two players making at least 50% of their FGs. Chassidy is the top shooter for Texas from the perimeter as she is 47.2% from the field and 38.5% from BTA. Her 5 of 13 threes top the team in 3s made and attempted. Empress is 2-4 from BTA and Nneka has made her only 3pt attempt. Of the 84 FT attempts by Texas so far, Nneka has taken 29 (made 20, 69%) and Chas 22 (made 18, 81.8%). Those two have taken 61% of the Horns’ FTs and made 68% of the team’s total of made FTs.
Nneka is averaging a double double with 14 rpg to go with her 25 ppg. That total makes her the current rebounding leader in the Big 12. Six other players average at least 4.3 rpg with Imani’s 6.7 rpg leading the group. That contributes to Texas leading the Big 12 in several rebounding categories: total rebounding (54.7 rpg), rebounding margin (+23.7), offensive rebounding (20.3 offensive rpg), defensive rebounding (34.3 defensive rpg), and offensive rebounding percentage (52.1%). Celina’s 5.33 apg tops the Horns and is third in the league. Nneka, Cokie and Imani all have six blocks each to tie for the lead in that category. Nine players have at least one steal with Empress’ seven leading the way.Eight players have played in all three games with two playing in two. Anne Marie sat out the last game while Chelsea dressed up for a game for the first time. Still to see the floor are: Gigi, Ronisha and Kayla, all of whom were in street dress for the last game. Nneka, Cokie, Chassidy, Empress, and Celina have started all three games this season. Nneka (30 mpg) and Chassidy (32 mpg) lead the team in mpg while the other starters average between 22 and 29 mpg. Anne Marie, Imani, Brady and Ashley all average double digit minutes off the bench while Nadia has averaged 4.5 mpg in the two games she has gone in. Can’t minimize the energy the bench has brought when they come in, especially Brady.
Projected starters based on the last game:
[pre]
Texas CCSU
Nneka (6-1 Soph. F) Thomas (5-10 Jr. G/F)
Cokie (6-4 Sr. P) Daamen (6-3 Sr. C)
Chassidy (5-10 Jr. G) Watras (5-9 Soph. G)
Empress (5-7 Fr. G) Jaclyn Babe (5-8 Sr. G)
Celina (5-8 Fr. G) Jessica Babe (5-5 Jr. G) [/pre]
This will be the tallest group of posts that the Texas posts will play against to date this season. While the starting posts for CCSU are not that tall, it seems to be a four guard lineup, they have three posts 6-2 to 6-3 that they bring off the bench so they can go bigger than they start. In the last game, Texas was down to a three player post rotation although a pretty good one in Nneka, Cokie and Imani. Hopefully, in this game, Anne Marie will be cleared to join the fray. The engine that runs the Blue Devils are their guards, especially the Babe sisters. The Texas backcourt will have their hands full with the Blue Devil backcourt, not just in stopping their offense but in keeping them from picking the Horns’ pocket on defense. With both head coaches willing to make use of their benches, this should be an entertaining game to watch for fans. The players will be in line for those ice baths after the game.
For the Blue Devils, the focus will be on stopping the two prong attack of Chassidy and Nneka. They also can’t afford to lose sight of the rest of the players as all are capable of scoring. Texas will look to stop the guards for CCSU. The CCSU posts have not been big scorers but have taken their shots when available.
TEAM STATISTICS UT CCSU
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SCORING................. 222 197
Points per game....... 74.0 65.7
Scoring margin........ +19.0 +1.0
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 79-178 73-186
Field goal pct........ .444 .392
FGs made per game..... 26.3 24.3
FGs att per game...... 59.7 62.0
2 POINT FG-ATT.......... 71-148 65-154
2-point FG pct........ .480 .422
2-pt FG made per game. 23.7 21.7
2-pt FG att per game.. 49.3 51.3
3 POINT FG-ATT.......... 8-30 8-32
3-point FG pct........ .267 .250
3-pt FG made per game. 2.7 2.7
3-pt FG att per game.. 10.0 10.7
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 56-84 43-52 Free throw pct........ .667 .827 FTs made per game..... 18.7 14.3 FTs att pergame...... 28.0 17.3 REBOUNDS................ 164 111 Off. Rebs. Per game... 20.3 15.0 Def. Rebs. Per Game... 34.3 12.0
Rebounds per game..... 54.7 37.0
Rebounding margin..... +23.7 -0.7
ASSISTS................. 37 40
Assists per game...... 12.3 13.3
TURNOVERS............... 65 59
Turnovers per game.... 21.7 19.7
Turnover margin....... -4.0 +4.6
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.6 0.7
STEALS.................. 29 39
Steals per game....... 9.7 13.0
BLOCKS.................. 20 8
Blocks per game....... 6.7 2.7
ATTENDANCE.............. 2974 2625
Home games-Avg/Game... 1-2974 2-1312
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st Ave 2nd Ave OT Ave Total Ave
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Texas.................... 106 35.3 116 38.7 - - 222 74.0
Central Connecticut...... 82 27.3 103 34.3 12 4.0 197 65.7
This should be an entertaining game. Between the two, they average just over three shots a minute. Both teams look to shoot more inside the arc than outside. Penetrate, find the open shooter, whether setting up BTA or inside the paint, or take a shot. Both find ways to get to the FT line. The tradeoff is that Texas gets to the line more often, CCSU shoots it better once there. Horns should dominate rebounding and, therefore, second chance points. They lead the Big 12 in almost every rebounding category. They average almost seven team rebounds. That stat puts the team as the second leading rebounder behind only Nneka and tied with Imani.
Horns will be looking to shut down or at least slow the Blue Devils high scoring backcourt. CCSU will have a more difficult task as they will need to guard inside and outside. Can’t slide inside to help or Texas shooters will drill it from the perimeter. I’m not sure they can stop the Texas posts without help, though. So pick your poison.
Lots of stuff going on this Saturday to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the FEC and with the holidays starting.
Bevo’s Bargains: Got a couple of ways to get a cheap or free ticket. Face painting will be available for the kids at the Cooley Pavilion.
35th Anniversary of the Frank Erwin Center: $3 general admission tickets available for all fans. Visit the promo code page of TexasSports.com and enter the code ERWIN35.
Orange Santa: FREE general admission ticket with donation of a new, unwrapped toy; gameday only.
Postgame Fast Break: Join Texas Women's Basketball for a wrap-up in the Lone Star room. Open to all fans. For more access to the Texas Women's Basketball program, join the Fast Break Club, the official fan club of Texas Women's Basketball, by emailing [email protected].
Longhorns Kids Court: Youth 18 and under can enjoy inflatables, face painting, basketball goals and more for FREE presented by Southwest Dairy Farmers. Located at the Denton Cooley Pavilion, doors open 90 minutes before tip.
The game will be televised on the Longhorn Network. KVET 1300 AM will carry the radio broadcast.
Just wanted to add the following quote from the texassport.com about the broadcast teams:In reply to:
CCSU is an experienced team with four of the five starters having at least 15 starts. The fifth starter played in all 29 games and started two. All of the returners have at least one start under their belt.
Central Connecticut State is led in scoring by a trio of guards: Jaclyn Babe (# 1, 5-8 Sr. G) with 22 ppg, Jessica Babe (# 5, 5-5 Jr. G) with 10.3 ppg and Kaley Watras (# 3, 5-9 Soph. G) at 10 ppg. Kristen Daamen (# 6-.3 Sr. C) adds 6.7 ppg while Lauren Arbogast (# 11, 6-2 Jr. F) is the top scorer off the bench with an average of 6.3 ppg. Those five, Jaclyn Babe (25-52, 48.1%), Jessica Babe (9-24, 37.5%), Watras (10/24, 41.7%), Daamen (9-19, 47.4%) and Arbogast (7-23, 30.4%), have made 82.2% of the Blue Devils’ FGs and taken 76.3% of the FGs attempted. Jaclyn Babe is the leader in 3pters made and taken (3-8, 37.5%). Her two other starting backcourt mates, Jessica Babe (1-7, 14.3%) and Kaley Watras (2-5, 40%) along with Nicole Ferguson (# 21, 6-0 Fr. F; 1-4, 25%) are other threats from BTA. CCSU’s starting backcourt gets to the FT often and convert their FTs. Jaclyn Babe is 13-13; Jessica Babe is 12-13 (92.3%) and Watras is 8-11 (72.7%). Arbogast is 4-4 while Jaleen Thomas (# 22, 5-10 Jr. G/F) is also perfect on two FT attempts. As a team, the Blue Devils are hitting 82.7%.
Jessica Babe, at 5-5, is the Blue Devils leading rebounder at 8.3 rpg. Watras and Arbogast add 4 rpg each. The Babe sisters top the team in assists with Jessica averaging 5.3 apg and Jaclyn adding 3 apg. To date, CCSU has not been a big blocking team with Daamen averaging 1 block a game. The 6-3 senior is the Blue Devils career shot blocker, entering this season with 140 blocks. Jaclyn Babe is the leader in steals with 18 for the season, an average of 6 per game. Jessica Babe has 9 steals (3 spg). Those two total 27 steals. In comparison, Texas has 29 steals as a team total in the same number of games.
Like the Horns, the Blue Devils have 14 players on the roster. Ten have played in all three games. Two have gotten into one game each and two have yet to play. Of the ten that have played in all games, all are averaging at least 10 minutes a game. Jaclyn Babe (37.3 mpg) and Jessica Babe (35.7 mpg) play almost all of the game while Watras (29.3 mpg), Daamen (26 mpg) and Arbogast (21.3 mpg) all average over 20 mpg. The Babe sisters, Daamen, Watras and Thomas have been the starters. Arbogast, Ferguson, Raven Makins (# 12, 5-7 Fr. G), Amanda Harrington (# 13, 6-3 RS Fr. F/C), and Johnna Fisher (# 34, 6-3 Soph. C) provide significant minutes off the bench.
Horns are led by two players in double figures: Nneka at 25 ppg and Chassidy at 19 ppg. Cokie (9.3 ppg) and Empress (8 ppg) are just off double figures. The bench is contributing 11.5 ppg. Nneka’s FG% of 71.1 is first on the team and in the Big 12. Iman (57.1%) and Cokie (52.4%) are the other two players making at least 50% of their FGs. Chassidy is the top shooter for Texas from the perimeter as she is 47.2% from the field and 38.5% from BTA. Her 5 of 13 threes top the team in 3s made and attempted. Empress is 2-4 from BTA and Nneka has made her only 3pt attempt. Of the 84 FT attempts by Texas so far, Nneka has taken 29 (made 20, 69%) and Chas 22 (made 18, 81.8%). Those two have taken 61% of the Horns’ FTs and made 68% of the team’s total of made FTs.
Nneka is averaging a double double with 14 rpg to go with her 25 ppg. That total makes her the current rebounding leader in the Big 12. Six other players average at least 4.3 rpg with Imani’s 6.7 rpg leading the group. That contributes to Texas leading the Big 12 in several rebounding categories: total rebounding (54.7 rpg), rebounding margin (+23.7), offensive rebounding (20.3 offensive rpg), defensive rebounding (34.3 defensive rpg), and offensive rebounding percentage (52.1%). Celina’s 5.33 apg tops the Horns and is third in the league. Nneka, Cokie and Imani all have six blocks each to tie for the lead in that category. Nine players have at least one steal with Empress’ seven leading the way.Eight players have played in all three games with two playing in two. Anne Marie sat out the last game while Chelsea dressed up for a game for the first time. Still to see the floor are: Gigi, Ronisha and Kayla, all of whom were in street dress for the last game. Nneka, Cokie, Chassidy, Empress, and Celina have started all three games this season. Nneka (30 mpg) and Chassidy (32 mpg) lead the team in mpg while the other starters average between 22 and 29 mpg. Anne Marie, Imani, Brady and Ashley all average double digit minutes off the bench while Nadia has averaged 4.5 mpg in the two games she has gone in. Can’t minimize the energy the bench has brought when they come in, especially Brady.
Projected starters based on the last game:
[pre]
Texas CCSU
Nneka (6-1 Soph. F) Thomas (5-10 Jr. G/F)
Cokie (6-4 Sr. P) Daamen (6-3 Sr. C)
Chassidy (5-10 Jr. G) Watras (5-9 Soph. G)
Empress (5-7 Fr. G) Jaclyn Babe (5-8 Sr. G)
Celina (5-8 Fr. G) Jessica Babe (5-5 Jr. G) [/pre]
This will be the tallest group of posts that the Texas posts will play against to date this season. While the starting posts for CCSU are not that tall, it seems to be a four guard lineup, they have three posts 6-2 to 6-3 that they bring off the bench so they can go bigger than they start. In the last game, Texas was down to a three player post rotation although a pretty good one in Nneka, Cokie and Imani. Hopefully, in this game, Anne Marie will be cleared to join the fray. The engine that runs the Blue Devils are their guards, especially the Babe sisters. The Texas backcourt will have their hands full with the Blue Devil backcourt, not just in stopping their offense but in keeping them from picking the Horns’ pocket on defense. With both head coaches willing to make use of their benches, this should be an entertaining game to watch for fans. The players will be in line for those ice baths after the game.
For the Blue Devils, the focus will be on stopping the two prong attack of Chassidy and Nneka. They also can’t afford to lose sight of the rest of the players as all are capable of scoring. Texas will look to stop the guards for CCSU. The CCSU posts have not been big scorers but have taken their shots when available.
TEAM STATISTICS UT CCSU
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SCORING................. 222 197
Points per game....... 74.0 65.7
Scoring margin........ +19.0 +1.0
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 79-178 73-186
Field goal pct........ .444 .392
FGs made per game..... 26.3 24.3
FGs att per game...... 59.7 62.0
2 POINT FG-ATT.......... 71-148 65-154
2-point FG pct........ .480 .422
2-pt FG made per game. 23.7 21.7
2-pt FG att per game.. 49.3 51.3
3 POINT FG-ATT.......... 8-30 8-32
3-point FG pct........ .267 .250
3-pt FG made per game. 2.7 2.7
3-pt FG att per game.. 10.0 10.7
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 56-84 43-52 Free throw pct........ .667 .827 FTs made per game..... 18.7 14.3 FTs att pergame...... 28.0 17.3 REBOUNDS................ 164 111 Off. Rebs. Per game... 20.3 15.0 Def. Rebs. Per Game... 34.3 12.0
Rebounds per game..... 54.7 37.0
Rebounding margin..... +23.7 -0.7
ASSISTS................. 37 40
Assists per game...... 12.3 13.3
TURNOVERS............... 65 59
Turnovers per game.... 21.7 19.7
Turnover margin....... -4.0 +4.6
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.6 0.7
STEALS.................. 29 39
Steals per game....... 9.7 13.0
BLOCKS.................. 20 8
Blocks per game....... 6.7 2.7
ATTENDANCE.............. 2974 2625
Home games-Avg/Game... 1-2974 2-1312
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st Ave 2nd Ave OT Ave Total Ave
------------------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- --- ---- ----- ----
Texas.................... 106 35.3 116 38.7 - - 222 74.0
Central Connecticut...... 82 27.3 103 34.3 12 4.0 197 65.7
This should be an entertaining game. Between the two, they average just over three shots a minute. Both teams look to shoot more inside the arc than outside. Penetrate, find the open shooter, whether setting up BTA or inside the paint, or take a shot. Both find ways to get to the FT line. The tradeoff is that Texas gets to the line more often, CCSU shoots it better once there. Horns should dominate rebounding and, therefore, second chance points. They lead the Big 12 in almost every rebounding category. They average almost seven team rebounds. That stat puts the team as the second leading rebounder behind only Nneka and tied with Imani.
Horns will be looking to shut down or at least slow the Blue Devils high scoring backcourt. CCSU will have a more difficult task as they will need to guard inside and outside. Can’t slide inside to help or Texas shooters will drill it from the perimeter. I’m not sure they can stop the Texas posts without help, though. So pick your poison.
Lots of stuff going on this Saturday to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the FEC and with the holidays starting.
Bevo’s Bargains: Got a couple of ways to get a cheap or free ticket. Face painting will be available for the kids at the Cooley Pavilion.
35th Anniversary of the Frank Erwin Center: $3 general admission tickets available for all fans. Visit the promo code page of TexasSports.com and enter the code ERWIN35.
Orange Santa: FREE general admission ticket with donation of a new, unwrapped toy; gameday only.
Postgame Fast Break: Join Texas Women's Basketball for a wrap-up in the Lone Star room. Open to all fans. For more access to the Texas Women's Basketball program, join the Fast Break Club, the official fan club of Texas Women's Basketball, by emailing [email protected].
Longhorns Kids Court: Youth 18 and under can enjoy inflatables, face painting, basketball goals and more for FREE presented by Southwest Dairy Farmers. Located at the Denton Cooley Pavilion, doors open 90 minutes before tip.
The game will be televised on the Longhorn Network. KVET 1300 AM will carry the radio broadcast.
Just wanted to add the following quote from the texassport.com about the broadcast teams:In reply to:
