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LORETTO, Pa. (Jan. 20, 2013) – The Saint Francis University women's basketball team looks to rebound from its first conference loss of the season against first-place Quinnipiac Monday in a 7 p.m. showdown at DeGol Arena.
 
JUST THE FACTS
Saint Francis Red Flash (9-7, 4-1 NEC) vs.
Quinnpiac Bobcats (14-2, 5-0 NEC)
Where: DeGol Arena – Loretto, Pa.
When: Monday | 7 p.m.
ALL-TIME: Saint Francis 17-8
LAST TIME: SFU 77, QUINN 71, Feb. 27, 2012
 
BROADCAST INFO:
Video Web Stream – NECFrontRow.com
Audiostream: ESPNWilliamsport.com
Broadcasters: Joe Vesnesky (play-by-play) and Bernie Jubeck (color)
 
SETTING THE STAGE
Saint Francis looks to rebound from its first conference loss of the season Monday against Quinnipiac, who enters the game in first-place in the Northeast Conference standings. The Red Flash ran off four consecutive conference wins to open league play but fell by 21 points Saturday to Sacred Heart. Quinnipiac comes in to Monday's meeting with SFU on a six-game winning streak. The Bobcats hold a 14-2 overall record and are unbeaten in league play and come in to Loretto fresh off a 61-52 win against Robert Morris Saturday. The Red Flash holds a 4-2 mark at home this season while the Bobcats enter Monday with a 5-1 road record. Last season the two teams split a pair of meeting with each team winning on the road. Alli Williams (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle) posted a triple double in the last meeting between the two schools as SFU knocked off Quinnipiac 77-71.           
 
Williams enters Monday's meeting with the Bobcats ranked first in the Northeast Conference in scoring, fourth in rebounding and second in steals. Williams notched her 10th 20-point game of the season Saturday with a 20-point 10-rebound effort against Sacred Heart. The double double also ranked as her 11th of the season matching her total from a season ago. The junior forward ranks first nationally in steals by a forward averaging 3.88 a contest. Nickia Gibbs (Greenbelt, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt) ranks second on the Flash in scoring averaging 11.4 points a game but the senior guard was held to just two points against SHU Saturday. Shene Fleming (Dayton, Ohio/Chaminade-Julienne) was held scoreless against the Pioneers but did tally eight rebounds. The junior forward ranks second on the team in rebounding averaging 6.9 boards a contest. Alexa Hayward (Beaver Falls, Pa./Blackhawk) also struggled against the Pioneers on Saturday notching just two points but the sophomore still sits first on the team in 3-point makes with 21. Rebecca Keegan (Jessup, Pa./Valley View) remains SFU's top threat off the bench despite being shutout Saturday against Sacred Heart, as the junior averages 4.7 points a game and 3.5 rebounds.
 
Felicia Barron leads a balanced Quinnipiac offensive attack that features four players averaging more than eight points a game. Barron averages 15.4 points per game and ranks second on the team in assists with 44 total helpers on the season. Jasmine Martin sits second on the Bobcats in scoring averaging 12.9 points a game and stands a big 3-point threat with 32 makes on the season and a 41.0-percent 3-point shooting percentage. Brittany McQuain leads Quinnipiac in rebounding with 8.1 a contest while also sitting third on the team in points averaging 11.7 per game. Gillian Abshire leads the Bobcats in assists and sits second in the league in assists per game averaging 5.0-helpers a game.      
 
MAKING THE GRADE
Highlighted by an impressive 35 perfect 4.0 grade-point-averages, 294 Saint Francis University student-athletes have been named to the Athletic Department's Fall 2012 Academic Honor Roll. Red Flash athletes must earn a GPA of 3.0 or high for inclusion on the list. Women's basketball placed two of the 35 perfect 4.0 GPA as both Brittany Lilley (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) and Nickia Gibbs (Greenbelt, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt) earned unblemished grade point averages in the fall.
 
The department also recognized the 125 Red Flash who posted a GPA of 3.5 or higher. Saint Francis student-athletes stretched their string of semesters with a GPA of 3.0-or-higher to 28 – a run spanning 14 years. The Red Flash posted a collective 3.122 GPA for the fall semester. Men's golf was the top men's team with a cumulative GPA of 3.411, while field hockey led the way for the women with a GPA of 3.483. Women's swimming posted five perfect 4.0's on the list, the most of any sport.
 
ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN
Things on top of the mountain have been good for the Red Flash this season against Northeast Conference foes. Entering the new week, SFU owns a record of 23-11-2 against Northeast Conference foes in Loretto in all sports in the 2012-13 season. During the regular season both the women's soccer and field hockey teams went undefeated during the NEC regular season at home and football posted just one loss. Women's basketball has started the season well at home with a 2-1 record against NEC adversaries and an overall mark of 4-2 in Loretto.
 
STOP THIEF
Junior forward Alli Williams (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle) leads the Red Flash this season in points, rebounds and steals. The Altoona, Pa. native ranks fourth in the nation in steals per game and sits first nationally in steals by a forward. Williams leads the NEC in steals per game in Northeast Conference play. The forward posted a NEC single game-high total this season of nine steals against FDU.
 
FOR THE RECORD
Alli Williams (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle) has cracked several key career statistical plateaus this season including recording her 1,000th point and 600th rebound. Williams sits just three steals away from picking up her 200th career steal. Once she hits the 200-steal mark, the junior would become just the third player in the school history to total 1,000-points, 600-rebounds and 200 steals in her career joining Beth Swink and Jess Zinobile. Williams currently ranks 18th all-time at SFU in scoring (1,076), 12th in rebounding (632) and 9th in steals (194). Williams is not the only current SFU student-athlete in the 1,000-point club, as Brittany Lilley (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) sits 20th on the all-time scoring list with 1,061-points. 
 
NUMBERS TO KNOW
.265 - SFU leads the NEC in 3-point field goal defense by only allowing only 75 of 283. Against FDU, the Flash allowed just one 3-point make on 18 attempts by the Knights.
 
0 – SFU starters Shene Fleming (Dayton, Ohio/Chaminade-Julienne), Nickia Gibbs (Greenbelt, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt) and Alexa Hayward (Beaver Falls, Pa./Blackhawk) combined to make zero field goals. 
 
3 – Alli Williams (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle) need just three more steals to become the seventh player in program history to record 200 steals.
 
10 – Williams recorded her 10th 20-point game Saturday as she went 6-of-15 from the floor.
 
11 – Williams poster her 11th double-double of the season Saturday match her total from the 2011-12 season.
 
15 – Alexa Hayward (Beaver Falls, Pa./Blackhawk) needs just 15 3-point makes to move into 10th all-time at SFU in career makes.
 
101 – Shene Fleming (Dayton, Ohio/Chaminade-Julienne) needs 101 more rebounds to move into a tie with Diane Carey for 15th on the all-time list.
 
UP NEXT
Saint Francis continues its home stand Saturday against Wagner Jan. 26 with tipoff set for 1 p.m. in DeGol Arena.