Bronchos Take On Washburn Thursday

1/22/2014 12:45:00 PM

Jordan Ward

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UCO HITS THE ROAD: Central Oklahoma opens a two-game Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association road swing Thursday when the Bronchos trek to Topeka, Kan. to tangle with Washburn.

Game-time at Lee Arena is 5:30 p.m.

UCO is 11-6 for the season and tied for seventh in the league standings at 5-4. The Ichabods are 10-5 overall and fifth in the conference at 5-3.

The Bronchos go to Emporia, Kan. Saturday to take on MIAA leader and No. 2-ranked Emporia State at 1:30 p.m.

THE SERIES: Washburn has a 5-2 lead in the series and won last year's meeting 62-58 in Edmond. That was the first game between the two since a 65-64 UCO win in the second round of the 2011 NCAA Division II national tournament.

ABOUT THE BRONCHOS: UCO is 2-3 on the road this season and dropped a 78-72 decision to Northwest Missouri in their last road outing on Jan. 4. The Bronchos went 3-1 on their recent four-game homestand and is 6-2 at Hamilton Field House.

UCO has already surpassed last year's win totals for the season and the conference after going 9-17 overall and 2-16 in the league last year.

The Bronchos are averaging 69.8 points a game and have five players scoring eight-plus points per contest.

Senior Jill Bryan leads the way with a 13.9 average while adding 5.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists a game. She's shooting 76.1 percent from the free throw line.

Sophomore Julia Mason is the only other double-digit scorer at 10.7 points to go with 5.6 rebounds an outing.

UCO also gets 9.5 points and 3.0 assists a game from senior Britney Morgan, 8.8 points and a team-high 6.6 rebounds from freshman Olivia Mason and 8.1 points from sophomore Haley Weathers.

Olivia Mason leads the team in both free throw percentage (80.0, 32-of-40) and 3-point percentage (36.8, 21-of-57).

MOVING UP THE LIST: Seniors Jill Bryan and Britney Morgan have both moved into the top 20 on UCO's career chart. Bryan ranks 19^th with 862 points and Morgan is 20^th with 841.

Morgan is also closing in on the top-five in both career 3-pointers and assists. She has 134 treys and 281 assists, needing six 3-pointers for fifth place on that list and 25 assists for fifth there.

ABOUT THE ICHABODS: Washburn is riding a three-game winning streak and is coming off a 70-60 win over Pittsburg State in its last outing.

The Ichabods are averaging 77.6 points a game and have three players in double figures – Casyn Buchman (18.3), Kara Lee (11.1) and Brittney Lynch (10.3). Buchman leads the MIAA in free throw percentage (90.7) and Lynch is second in the conference in rebounding (8.7).

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