UCONN @ Memphis
Day: Saturday
Date: February 7th, 2015
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Time: 3:30
TV: SNY
UConn 21-1 (11-0)
Memphis 11-11 (5-6)
Head to Head
1/4/14 W 90-49 A
1/22/14 W 83-49 H
Overview
UConn can't help but be looking ahead to Monday's game with South Carolina. I know that I am having trouble writing this when I really want to work on the SC Pre-game report. But I'll give it my best, as I'm sure the players will as well on Saturday.
Memphis is average. They are 11-11. They are 5-6 in the conference. They score 60 ppg and give up 60 ppg. Average is not good when you are playing UConn. They played two Big Ten teams close in the early part of the season, losing 68-62 to Minnesota and 60-58 to Illinois. They only lost to South Florida by four. Still losses, but it does show they can play well on occasion. They are coming off a hammering by Temple, who must have felt some freedom to operate after the squeeze UConn put on them the game before.
UConn is coming off a win against Cincinnati, celebrating Geno and CD's 900th win. It was quite the celebration. They have now won 20 consecutive games and lead the country in so many categories, the list is too large to put here.
UConn Starters
11 Kia Nurse 6' Freshman Guard
Nurse has scored double digits in 16 out of 22 games. After 10 consecutive double digit scoring games, she has had single digit efforts in 4 out of the last 10 games.
Season highs - 22 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 steals
Season highs - 22 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 steals
2014-15: MPG 24.8, FG% .541, 3PT% .465, PPG 11.5, RPG 3.3, APG 3.3, 40 steals, 0 blocks
Jefferson has scored double digits in 14 out of 22 games. She has fouled out of one game. Over her last ten games she has had only six turnovers.
Season highs - 24 points, 6 rebounds, 10 assists, 5 steals
2014-15: MPG 26.0, FG% .558, 3PT% .509, PPG 11.4, RPG 2.5, APG 4.6, 53 steals, 3 block
23 Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis 5'11" Senior Forward
KML has scored double digits in 17 out of 22 games. She has had one double double with 17 points and 10 rebounds against Temple.
Season highs - 30 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 steals
Season highs - 30 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 steals
2014-15: MPG 27.8, FG% .532, 3PT% .508, PPG 14.2, RPG 4.3, APG 2.7, 23 steals, 3 blocks
3 Morgan Tuck 6'2" Sophomore Forward
Tuck has scored double digits in 20 out of 22 games. She has had four games of 20+ points. She has fouled out of one game.
Season highs - 25 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals
Season highs - 25 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals
2014-15: MPG 25.4, FG% .581, 3PT% .167, PPG 14.3, RPG 5.2, APG 2.9, 19 steals, 9 blocks
30 Breanna Stewart 6'4" Junior Forward
Stewart has scored double digits in 19 out of 22 games. She has had 4 double doubles. Stewart has also had 5 games over 20+ points.
Season highs - 26 points, 12 rebounds, 8 assists, 5 steals, 5 blocks
2014-15: MPG 27.5, FG% .526, 3PT% .333, PPG 16.7, RPG 6.8, APG 3.3, 40 steals, 47 blocks
UConn Bench
Stokes has scored double digits in 2 games and rebounded in double digits in 7 games. She of course, had a triple double against East Carolina.
Season highs - 10 points, 18 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, 10 blocks
2014-15: MPG 20.7, FG% .533, 3PT% .500, PPG 5.5, RPG 8.1, APG .9, 13 steals, 106 blocks
Chong has scored double digits in 4 games. She has averages 10 points per game over the last 4 contests.
Season highs - 20 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals
Season highs - 20 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals
2014-15: MPG 19.9, FG% .472, 3PT% .393, PPG 6.2, RPG 2.2, APG 1.8, 12 steals, 6 blocks
15 Gabby Williams 5'11" Freshman Guard
Williams has scored double digits in 11 out of 22 games. Since being shut out by St. Johns in the first game after the new year, Williams has averaged 11 ppg and 8.6 rpg.
Season highs - 18 points, 16 rebounds, 3 assists, 5 steals
Season highs - 18 points, 16 rebounds, 3 assists, 5 steals
2014-15: MPG 16.8 FG% .633, 3PT% .000, PPG 8.9, RPG 6.3, APG 1.3, 32 steals, 8 blocks
Getting better and better.
Season highs - 7 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals
Season highs - 7 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals
2014-15: MPG 13.1 FG% .306, 3PT% .250, PPG 2.3, RPG 1.9, APG 1.0, 5 steals, 0 blocks
UConn Complete Stats
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Memphis Starters
04 Ariel Hearn 5'7" Junior Guard
Hearn has scored in double digits in 18 out of 22 games this season. In her last two games she scored 30 against South Florida and 24 against Temple. Last season she was first team All-AAC first team.
2014-15: MPG 33.9, FG% .388, 3PT% .359, PPG 16.6, RPG 4.1, APG 3.0, 43 steals, 9 blocks
Rower is averaging 11 ppg in their wins and 8 ppg in their losses. She had seven three-point baskets in the first seven games shooting 21%. At that point, it looks like the coach told her to stop shooting so many. She only took 16 over the last 15 games. It was a great coaching decision. She only made two of them.
2014-15: MPG 28.1, FG% .317, 3PT% .188, PPG 9.5, RPG 3.3, APG 1.4, 11 steals, 4 blocks
21 Asianna Fuqua-Bey 6'1" Junior Forward
Fuqua-Bey had a double double in a win against Mississippi Valley State. She has seven double digit scoring games and 4 double digit rebounding games. She has fouled out of five games this season.
2014-15: MPG 28.3, FG% .455 3PT% .000, PPG 8.6, RPG 7.0, APG 1.5, 26 steals, 14 blocks
22 Brianna Wright 6'1" Junior Forward
Wright has 4 double doubles with her best effort 18 points/14 rebounds against Temple. She has seven double digit scoring games and eight double digit rebounding games. She leads the team in FG% at 49.7%.
2014-15: MPG 28.7, FG% .497, 3PT% .000, PPG 7.8, RPG 9.0 APG 0.8, 20 steals, 19 blocks
01 Breigha Wilder-Cochran 5'9" Sophomore Guard
Three double digit scoring games this year. Her best effort was a twelve point, 3 rebound, 2 assists and five steal game against Georgetown.
2014-15: MPG 25.4, FG% .326, 3PT% .364, PPG 5.4, RPG 3.1, APG 2.2, 34 steals,6 blocks
Memphis Bench
03 Taylor Williams 6'1" Sophomore Guard
Best game was eleven points and five rebounds against Georgetown.
2014-15: MPG 20.9, FG% .310, 3PT% .243, PPG 4.5, RPG 3.5, APG 1.0, 14 steals, 2 blocks
10 Cheyenne Creighton 6'1" Freshman Forward
McFerrin's first signee out of Canada. She was invited to tryouts for the Canadian U18 National Team. Also a member of Ontario's U17 Senior Provincial Team that won the Canada Games.
2014-15: MPG 13.3, FG% .483, 3PT% .500, PPG 3.0, RPG 2.5, APG 0.4, 4 steals, 6 blocks
05 Brea Elmore 5'9" Freshman Guard
Elmore guided her Redan team to an undefeated 33-0 season with a 63-53 win over No. 2 ranked Columbus in the state championship game. She led the team with 20 points in the championship game, adding 10 steals and six assists to cap a perfect senior season.
2014-15: MPG 13.5, FG% .245, 3PT% .208, PPG 2.9, RPG 1.0, APG .9, 10 steals, 4 blocks
Game Analysis
Memphis has four players over 6' that will see time. The problem is none of them are over 6'1". This should mean a big game for Stewart if she posts hard and Tuck should score at will as well. Memphis has one big scorer and she is a terrific player. Ariel Hearn was 1st team all AAC last year and leads Memphis in scoring at 16 ppg. But there are really no other threats and we all know what happens when UConn shuts down the top scorer.
Memphis only takes around 14 three point shots per game. The problem is that they only make around 4 of them. UConn will not have to protect the perimeter except for not leaving Hearn open. She has taken almost 50% of their threes. She has a decent percentage from deep at 36%. Which means the rest of the team shoots 24%.
There are startling differences in the offensive numbers between the two teams.
UConn has seven out of their eight players shooting over 50% from the field with Chong the only one not there at 46%. Memphis has no one shooting over 50% from the field. They only have 3 players shooting over 40%. And they only have 2 players shooting better than Chong.
UConn has only one player with negative assist/turnover numbers, Stokes with 20 assists and 22 turnovers. Memphis has only one player that doesn't have negative assist/turnover numbers, Brea Elmore with 18 assists and 18 turnovers.
Memphis is an average team with one really good players. UConn will do whatever they want. Just a practice game to work on things for Monday.
Final Prediction
Geno will work on a lot of things he feels he wants to do against South Carolina. And I don't think he will hold back much now that he is not playing against a former assistant coach. If the bench plays like they did in the last game, this could be in the 60 point range. I'll go with that prediction.
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