Game Notes
• This marks the second-straight season and fourth time in the last five years that the Greyhounds and Tribe have faced in women's basketball.
• William & Mary is on a three-game win streak against Loyola, but two of the last three meetings have been decided by one point.
Loyola Greyhounds (0-3, 0-0 Patriot League)
• Sophomore Isabella Therien, the 2017-18 Patriot League Rookie of the Year, contributed her first collegiate double-double in Loyola's loss at Georgetown Tuesday night, finishing with game-highs in points (17) and rebounds (a career-high 11).
• Therien leads the Greyhounds in scoring this year with 11.7 points per game, while junior Stephanie Karcz, the 2017-18 Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year and first-team All-League honoree, is second in the Patriot League with 12.7 rebounds per game.
• Karcz also leads the team with nine steals and seven assists.
William & Mary Tribe (1-1, 0-0 Colonial Athletic Association)
• The Tribe rebounded from a 72-55 season-opening loss to VCU with an 88-75 victory over Howard. Both games were played at William & Mary's Kaplan Arena with Saturday's contest being the Tribe's first away from home.
• Bianca Boggs leads W&M with 20.5 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. She's connected on seven of eight shots from the line and has a team-best 11 assists and six steals.
• Victoria Reynolds is second on the team with 9.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game, while Emma Krause is tied with Reynolds in scoring.
Series History
• William & Mary leads the all-time series 8-2.
• The Tribe used a 70-49 victory last year to stretch its win streak to three-straight games after a pair of one-point decisions.
• Loyola's most recent win came at home in 2001 when it recorded a second-straight victory in the series, 60-59, at Reitz Arena.
• The Tribe won the first five meetings in the series before Loyola's back-to-back victories. William & Mary has won the three since then.
Up Next
• The Greyhounds will head to Philadelphia for the Hawk Classic at Saint Joseph's on Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving.
• Loyola will open the tournament against Boston College on Friday at 2 p.m., while Saint Joseph's will host Rider. The respective winners and losers of the two games will then play each other at either noon or 2 p.m. on Sunday.
