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ATHENS, W.Va. - The Concord University women's basketball team wraps up the regular season as it hosts a pair of Mountain East Conference games against West Virginia State 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and Glenville State 2:00 p.m. Saturday at the Carter Center.
LIVE COVERAGE
Stats: The Concord University Sports Information Department will provide live in-game statistics for both games this week.
Video: Live streaming video will also be provided for the games inside the Carter Center.
RECORDS
The Mountain Lions are 18-8 to begin the week and 14-6 against conference foes.
West Virginia State enters the contest with a mark of 9-17 overall and is 7-13 in the MEC.
GSC is 22-4 and leads the conference with a record of 18-2.
SENIOR SATURDAY
Even though it wasn't her last home game, senior forward
Madison May had a memorable Senior Day in a 72-42 win over West Virginia Wesleyan Saturday. The Athens, West Virginia native poured in 24 points as she moved into fourth on the all-time scoring list at Concord, passing both
Jolysa Brown and Samm Nester in the process. May now has 1,676 career points, 18th-most among active Division II players. Additionally, May is 47 points away from moving into third on the all-time scoring ranks at Concord. May also helped the Mountain Lions to their sixth win by 20 or more points this season on Saturday.
BENCH BUCKETS
In the two wins last week, CU's bench averaged 20 points as it posted 21 points at Davis & Elkins and added 19 more points on Saturday. Junior forward
Tamra Scott had her fourth double-figure game of the season with 12 points at D&E and added seven more versus Wesleyan. Freshman guard
Ashton Funderburg scored six points in each game while redshirt freshman forward
Alexis Phillips provided three points and three rebounds in five minutes of action against Davis & Elkins. In four of the last five games, the Concord reserves have combined to score 10 or more points and are averaging 13.0 points per game. Earlier this season, the Mountain Lions received 18 bench points, led by 10 points from Scott and another eight from freshman guard
Jazz Blankenship, in a 122-112 win at WVSU.
ONE FOR THE RECORD BOOKS
In the win at West Virginia State, Concord scored a Division II program record 122 points. Junior forward
Riley Fitzwater, sophomore guard
Maggie Guynn and May combined for 87 of the 122 points as Fitzwater posted her season high in points with 27. Meanwhile, May set her career high in points at 38 which she later tied at West Liberty this season. The Mountain Lions assisted on 30 of 50 made shots, which are the second-most assists in an MEC game this season. Fitzwater, Guynn and sophomore guard
Gracie Robinson all handed out five assists. Additionally, CU shot 61.7 percent (50-of-81) in the game, one of three times Concord has cracked 60 percent from the field this season.
STRENGTH ON STRENGTH
The Mountain Lions enter the week having held each of its last four opponents to 25 percent or less from three-point range, including limiting West Virginia Wesleyan to 12.5 percent (2-for-16) from beyond the arc Saturday. Over those four games, CU has allowed just a combined 21 made three-pointers. And Concord is up to third in the MEC in three-point defense (29.6 percent). However, the Maroon and Gray faces two of Division II's best three-point shooting teams. Glenville State leads the country in three-pointers made per game (12.4) while WVSU checks with 9.6 made triples per game, 10th in Division II. GSC shoots 36.1 percent from three-point range, second in the MEC while the Yellow Jackets are a 30.1 percent shooting team from behind the arc. CU allowed 13 triples to West Virginia State and 16 to GSC earlier in the season.
THE FINALE
Saturday will be the final home game of the season for the Mountain Lions when it hosts Glenville State, and also the final game inside the Carter Center for May. May plus the junior class of guard
Savannah Dunford, Fitzwater, guard Abby Gwinn, guard
Keely Lundy and Scott have beaten every MEC team at least twice in their career except Glenville State—and excluding Frostburg State—who they are winless against. Additionally, the group has beaten every MEC at least three times in the last three seasons with the exception of GSC and Notre Dame. Individually, May has played some of her best games in the last two seasons versus the Pioneers. In her last four games, she is averaging 28.5 points per game while shooting 83.9 percent from the floor.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
5- Points needed by May to surpass her scoring total of 558 points from last season, fifth most in a single season.
13- Assists needed by Robinson to reach 100 for the season, and to join May with at least 100 points, 100 rebounds and 100 assists for the season. Last season, May and
Andreanna Pool reached all three marks.
80- Points in the paint by Concord in its November win at West Virginia State.
WEST VIRGINIA STATE AT A GLANCE
The Yellow Jackets are averaging 87.0 points per game which ranks fourth in Division II, and WVSU has reached 90 or more points 12 times this season. Charity Shears is averaging 17.0 points per game and has made 98 three-pointers, second in the MEC. Shears' twin sister, Payton scores 11.4 points per game while Chloe Cheresne scores 12.7 points per game. MEC Freshman of the Year candidate Destiny Fields rounds out the double figure scorers at 11.0 while pulling down a team-high 6.7 rebounds per contest. WVSU has made 250 three-pointers, but no one else besides C. Shears has more than 33 triples on the season.
GLENVILLE STATE AT A GLANCE
Since a December 15 road loss at Fairmont State, GSC has won 16 straight games including a 110-84 victory over Concord at home January 26. Zakiyah Winfield averages 18.3 points per game on 60.4 percent shooting, trailing only CU's Fitzwater for the MEC lead. Reigning MEC Freshman of the Year Re'Shawna Stone pours in 18.0 points per game. The other double figure scorers for the Pioneers include Emily Stoller (17.9), Ty Armstrong (16.4) and Taychaun Hubbard (10.2). Glenville State has made 10 or more three-pointers in 20 of 26 games this season. In addition to its high three-point production, Glenville State also ranks fourth in Division II in steals (13.4 per game). The Pioneers have also gone over 100 points in 14 of their last 16 games.
