Women's Basketball Travels to Clemson Thursday

Feb. 17, 2004

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The Yellow Jackets will travel to Clemson this Thursday to face the Tigers at 7 p.m. in a game that will be regionally broadcast on Comcast Sports Southeast. The Jackets look to avenge a 61-75 loss to the Tigers, suffered in mid-January and are coming off back-to-back wins over Virginia and Maryland this past week. Clemson has lost five straight ACC games, and are winners of just two games since defeating the Jackets earlier this season. A late addition to the television lineup, the game will be broadcast live in the Southeast on Comcast Sports with Tom Hart calling the play-by-play and Clemson SID Tim Bourret providing the color analysis, while a replay of the game can be found on CSS Friday at 12:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on WREK-Radio 91.1 FM in Atlanta and online at www.wrek.org, with Richard Musterer calling the play-by-play and Kurt Hoyt providing the color analysis, while the Clemson broadcast can be heard on WCCP-FM 104.9 in South Carolina. Livestats for the basketball game will be available at ramblinwreck.com.

Series Notes

* Clemson currently holds a 38-12 lead in the series with Georgia Tech but the Jackets have taken two of the last three meetings and have won three of the last five games.

* These two teams first met on the hardwood in Clemson, when the Tigers defeated the Jackets, 103-67, on January 31, 1980. That win by the Tigers began a streak of 12 straight wins in the series by Clemson before the Jackets earned their first win in January, 1987 on the Tigers’ home court by an 81-78 score.

* The series has been one of streaks: Clemson began by winning 12 consecutive games before the Jackets finally earned a victory. After winning two straight, Clemson rattled off 10 more consecutive victories, leading up to the 1992 meeting…again, at Clemson. The Jackets won three in a row, from February, 1992 through December of the same year before the Tigers had another five-game winning streak. In February, 1995, the Jackets earned the first of three victories in the next three games but then yielded another six consecutive victories to Clemson, ending in 1999.

* Georgia Tech has won seven of its 24 home games in the series with Clemson, with the last home victory coming in January of last year. The Jackets scored 18 points in overtime and held the Tigers to just seven to earn an 89-78 win over the Tigers at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Prior to that win, the Jackets had two previous victories over Clemson, and five of its previous six, had come at AMC.

* Clemson leads the series at Littlejohn with a 19-4 edge on their campus. Jackets vs. Tigers: Last Time Out

Lakeia Stokes had a double-double with a game-high 23 points and 10 rebounds as Clemson defeated Georgia Tech, 75-61, at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Tech freshman Kentrina Wilson, in her second start of the season, led the Jackets with 13 points while pulling down nine rebounds in the contest while Fallon Stokes recorded the seventh double-double of her career and fourth of the season against Clemson, scoring 11 points and pulling down 10 rebounds in the game. She also had two assists and a steal in 33 minutes of play. Clemson converted on 8-of-19 from beyond the three-point arc while holding the Jackets to just four threes in the contest. The Tigers were led by Julie Talley, with four, and Stokes, who hit three-of-five. Georgia Tech turned the ball over 22 times in the game, including 15 times in the first half of the contest, which led to 32 points for the Tigers. Clemson also had eight steals in the game, including four by Stokes, while dishing out 13 assists. The Jackets outrebounded the Tigers, 46-36, and held a 7-1 edge in blocks, including five by sophomore Kasha Terry. Clemson had four players score in double figures, as Talley followed Stokes with 15 points while Maggie Slosser and Amanda White scored 13 and 10 points, respectively.

Tech Record Book Versus Clemson

* In the final game last season between these two teams, Georgia Tech scored its most points ever in an overtime period with 18 as the Jackets downed the Tigers by an 89-78 score at Alexander Memorial Coliseum.

* Of the Jackets’ 12 victories against Clemson, four have come when the Tigers were ranked. In 1992, the Jackets downed Clemson twice, once in the regular season and again in the ACC Tournament. The Jackets then doubled up on the Tigers again in 1996, winning both regular season matchups.

* Clemson’s 38 points against the Jackets in 1996 was the fifth-lowest total of allowed points in a contest for Tech, and second-lowest in conference games. The Jackets won that contest, 55-38 on January 25.

* The Jackets shot a blistering 83 percent from beyond the three-point arc against the Tigers on March 8, 1992, which was the second-highest three-point percentage in a Tech game in history. The Jackets defeated the 20th-ranked Tigers, 74-73, in that game at the ACC Tournament.

* On January 26, 2002, the Jackets set a new record for most free-throw attempts in a game, as they shot 50 from the charity stripe that night to earn the 83-78 victory over the Tigers. Tech made 36 of those free throws, which is second all-time in the record books and tops in ACC competition in Jackets’ history.

* Georgia Tech blocked 12 Clemson shots on January 18, 1989, which was the second-highest ever recorded by a team in a Jackets’ contest and most in an ACC game. In that game, Allison Echols set the record for most blocked shots by an individual in one game, with nine.

Looking at the Tigers

Kaayla Chones scored 20 points and Alvine Mendeng added 13 in leading N.C. State to a 76-55 win over Clemson in Raleigh a week ago as Clemson dropped its fifth conference game in a row. Chones finished the game 8-for-11 from the field and made 4-of-7 from the free throw line while pulling down a game-high seven rebounds. Clemson was led in scoring by Julie Aderhold with 11 points. Khaili Sanders had nine points and led the Lady Tigers in rebounding with six. Clemson finished the game with 17 turnovers, compared to N.C. State’s eight. For the game, N.C. State shot .468 from the field while hitting 6-of-19 from the three-point line. This season, the Tigers are led by Lakeia Stokes, averaging 17.0 points and 7.5 rebounds per game while leading the team with 86 assists and 58 steals and standing second on the team with 21 blocks on the year. She is also shooting 42 percent from the field and has made 76 percent of her free throws in 2004. Maggie Slosser leads the team averaging almost 52 percent from the field while standing second on the squad with almost six rebounds per game while Julie Aderhold has recorded a team-high 34 threes and is making 75 percent of her free throws. Julie Talley has also made 34 from beyond the arc and stands second on the team with 48 assists and 23 steals, while Khaili Sanders leads the Tigers with 26 blocks on the year. Clemson is shooting 40.3 percent from the field and 71.5 percent from the charity striped as a team this year while averaging 38.8 rebounds per game.

Last Time Out for the Jackets

Fallon Stokes hit a jumper with 58 seconds remaining and Alex Stewart converted on a pair of free throws to help Georgia Tech to a 58-57 win over Maryland Sunday at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Stokes hit a jumper under heavy pressure to make the score 56-55 in favor of the Jackets, giving Tech the lead for the first time since it led 39-37 with 11:08 on the clock in the second half. Following a missed jumper by the Terps, Stewart converted both free throws to pull the Jackets ahead by three with under 24 seconds remaining on the clock, making the score 58-55. The Terps had a chance to tie the game, but Kalika France’s three at the end was rebounded by Delvona Oliver and put back in for a layup with under a second remaining, giving the Jackets the one-point victory. Stokes paced four Jackets in double figures, scoring 18 points and pulling down six rebounds, while Megan Harpring added 12, Stewart, 11, and Isom, 10. April Johnson tied Stokes with six rebounds in the contest, while Stewart led the Jackets with seven assists. Terry blocked two Maryland shots while Harpring, in her third consecutive start and ninth of the season, had two steals for Tech. Maryland had four players in double figures on the afternoon, with Washington and France scoring 13 apiece while Oliver and Fisher added 10.