UNO Game Notes | Grand Canyon Game NotesNEW ORLEANS, La. – The New Orleans Privateers women's basketball team (0-3) heads back on the road for their longest trip of the season when they travel to Phoenix to take on the Grand Canyon Antelopes (1-4) at the GCU Arena on Wednesday. Tip is for 9 p.m. CST.
The Privateers are coming off an 85-45 loss at home to 25
th-ranked Mississippi State on Saturday. New Orleans was able to hold the Bulldogs under 40 percent from the field and was only out-rebounded by four. However, Mississippi State was put on the free throw line 39 times and nearly doubled the Privateers point total at the line (27-15).
Mathilde Fogelstrom played 32 minutes and notched the first double-double of the season for New Orleans by going for 11 points and 10 rebounds while also adding two steals. Fogelstrom is 8-for-11 from the field in the Privateers' first three games.
New Orleans was held to just 29 percent from the field (15-of-51) on Saturday and missed all eight three-point attempts. From long range, New Orleans is just 8-for-41 on the year.
Randi Brown leads the team in made three-pointers with three.
This will be the first meeting between the two schools in program history. Grand Canyon is a member of the Western Athletic Conference. The Antelopes had a 21-win season in 2013-14 and earned a spot in the Women's Basketball Invitational where they were narrowly defeated in the first round by Boise State.
Trent May is in his 14
th year as head coach and his eighth with the Antelopes. Coming into the season, May had a record of 151-55 and is currently 21 wins shy of 300 for his career. Grand Canyon picked up their lone win of the season against Western State on Nov. 19. Last weekend, the Antelopes went 0-2 in the Navy Classic with losses to host, Navy and Northern Kentucky.
The Antelopes have one player averaging double figures in Jessica Gajewski who has scored 59 points so far (11.8 per game). As a team, Grand Canyon is averaging just over 60 points a game and is shooting 35.5 percent from the field. Cheyenne Hedrington leads the team in rebounding and is also first in the WAC in rebounds per game (10.2).
