FIU Women's Basketball: Game 14, Home vs. Marshall
Saturday, January 8, 2016 | 7 p.m. (ET)
Lime Court at FIU Arena | Miami, Florida | PantherVision Live Video
 
FIU Panthers
Record: 2-11, 0-2 Conference USA
Last Game: L, 71-69 vs. WKU on Thursday, January 7, 2016
Head Coach: Marlin Chinn (Hampton, '92)
Career Record: 2-11 / first season
 
Marshall Thundering Herd
Record: 10-3, 0-2 Conference USA
Last Game: L, 84-73 at Florida Atlantic on Thursday 7, 2016
Head Coach: Matt Daniel (Harding, '98)
Career Record: 119-109 / eighth season
Marshall Record: 47-59 / fourth season
 
Last Game for FIU: The Panthers had a lead in the fourth quarter in their third-straight game, and almost climbed out of a late shooting slump by hitting their last four, but lost to the defending C-USA champion WKU Lady Toppers squad 71-69 at home Thursday. FIU had a better shooting percentage and fewer turnovers, but 12 fourth-quarter free throw attempts and seven makes by WKU were the difference after getting just four attempts in the first three quarters. Freshman Kristian Hudson (Birmingham, Alabama) had her first career double-double with 12 points and 10 assists in the game.
 
Last Game for Marshall: Marshall watched Florida Atlantic knock down 17 three-point baskets en route to the Owls 84-73 win Thursdayt in Boca Raton. The Herd shot .425 from the field in the game. Leah Scott had 24 points and 13 rebounds, but the Owls had five players in double figures.
 
Conference foes for just two seasons, FIU and Marshall have set a tone in matchups between the two programs. In their first season of playing against one another in 2014, the Panthers swept the two games with Marshall, only to have the Thundering Herd return the favor in 2015 with two wins in two meetings last season.
 
FIU currently has the top free throw percentage in Conference USA and is fifth in three-point shooting and sixth in the league in field goal shooting overall. The Herd is second in three league categories: scoring (75.1), scoring margin (+12.8) and assists per game (15.0), while one of the worst three-point shooting teams (.291) in the conference.
 
FIU senior Taylor Shade (Boynton Beach, Florida / Community HS) is seventh in the league in scoring, averaging 14.8 points per game this season, while junior teammate Janka Hegedus (Budapest, Hungary) is 11^th in the league, at 14.4 per contest. Hegedus is also ninth in field goal percentage in C-USA, with a .497 mark and leads the league in minute played, at 35.5 per contest. Junior Tianah Alvarado (St. Petersburg, Florida / Gulf Coast State College) checks in at third in the league in steals, taking away 32 this season.
 
The Herd has the third-best (Leah Scott, 17.4 points) and eighth-best (Shayna Gore, 14.8) scoring averages in the conference this season. Marshall's Talequia Hamilton is second in the league with a .578 field goal percentage.

The game is streamed live at PantherVision, with that link, along with live stats and tickets all available at FIUSports.com.
 
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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and at the FIU Football Stadium.
 
About FIU: Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. Its colleges and schools offer more than 180 bachelor¹s, master¹s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU is Worlds Ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. FIU has awarded 200,000 degrees and enrolls 50,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.