Game #11
Northeastern State (2-8) vs. Bacone (0-8)
Sunday, Dec. 30 at 2 p.m. | Tahlequah, Okla. | NSU Event Center | Free Admission
Opening Tip
- First home game since the opening weekend of the season.
- The RiverHawks have played eight straight prior to Sunday's afternoon's contest with Bacone away from the NSU Event Center.
- Final non-conference regular season contest for the RiverHawks.
- Bailee Eldred, Cenia Hayes, and Long all pace NSU in scoring with over 11 points a game.
- Eldred leads the RiverHawks with 6.9 rebounds per game.
- Eldred is sixth nationally carrying a 93.3 free throw percentage.
- Joi Bertrand, Cenia Hayes, and Cailyn Long have started in all 12 contests (including exhibitions).
- Bertrand is tied for first in the MIAA in blocks with 26, which is also 19th nationally..
RiverHawks vs. Warriors Series
- Fifth meeting since the 2002-03 season and first in over a year.
- Northeastern State is 3-0 at home over the Warriors.
- As head coach Fala Bullock has not faced Bacone, but was 1-0 as a student-athlete, and played in NSU's lone trip to Muskogee.
About the Warriors
- First contest for the Warriors since Dec. 15.
- Sunday's contest is an exhibition for Bacone.
- They have yet to play a home contest.
- Only game of the season for the Warriors against a NCAA member institution.
- Have given up over 100 points in six games and trail in scoring margin by 66.
- Best offensive output was 55 at Southwestern Assemblies of God, but still lost 56.
- Ranked 33rd in the NAIA with 7.1 three pointers per game.
- Led in scoring by Kaylee Pinkston who averages 11.6 points per game.
- Only averaging 4.8 offensive rebounds per game.
- Led by first year head coach Galen Springer.
Big Runs
Top runs of ten or more consecutive for the RiverHawks
14-0 - 3:16 at Azusa Pacific (11/24/18)
10-0 - 5:51 at Missouri Southern (12/8/18)
10-0 - 4:34 at Oklahoma Baptist (11/19/18)*
10-0 - 3:59 at Rogers State (11/14/18)
* - start of game
Looking Back
- Long became the seventh player in NSU women's basketball history to reach 1,000 points in her 88th career game.
- Northeastern State matched the Lions' firepower out of the gates but after a Long trey to trail A&M-Commerce, 20-18 with 3:27 left in the first, they would go scoreless for the next five minutes.
- Bailee Eldred led the RiverHawks with 14 points and six rebounds.
- Morgan Hellyer had a season high seven points off the bench.
- The RiverHawks finished the afternoon shooting 36.1-percent (22-61) on the floor and from long range, they were 5-for-20.
Seventh to 1,000
On Dec. 18 at Texas A&M-Commerce,
Cailyn Long became Northeastern State's seventh member 1,000 point club in women's basketball. The Sparta, Mo. native is a two-time All-MIAA selection and has averaged 11.4 points a game in her four-year career at NSU.
- Averages 2.3 treys a game, seventh most in the MIAA.
- Fourth in the MIAA in three-point percentage (39.2).
- Averages 2.5 treys a game, fifth most in the MIAA.
- Had her eighth career 20+ point game against Northwestern Oklahoma.
Crashing the Boards
Bailee Eldred paced the RiverHawks with 138 rebounds last season and had four double-double contests. In her collegiate career between NSU and Murray State, Eldred has 476 rebounds and 827 points. In the NSU record book, only eight players have surpassed 500 career rebounds.
- Recorded her fifth double-double at NSU with a 16 point and 12 rebound performance at Pitt State.
- Quietly stealthy at the free-throw line going 95.1-percent, which is a MIAA best.
- Eldred led Northeastern State with 11 points at OSU and at Oklahoma.
Block the Ball
Joi Bertrand returns to NSU for her senior season after finishing third in the MIAA in blocks per game at 1.5. Bertrand had 49 blocks which was fifth most in a season in program history. In four combined playing seasons, she has 136 blocks which would be second most all-time in the RiverHawks' record book.
- Has recorded a block in the first nine games of the season.
- Matched a career high of four blocks in the season opener against East Central, at Oklahoma Baptist, and at UA-Fort Smith.
- Scored eight points and led NSU with seven rebounds at Oklahoma.
