Women's Notebook
December 23, 2003 02:45 PM | General
December 23, 2003
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Senior Kate Bulger continues to move up the record book. The Pittsburgh native recently moved into the Top 10 on the WVU career scoring charts and now tied with Alexis Basil for eighth with 1,429 points.
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| Kate Bulger has 1,500 career points within her sights. (Big East photo) |
Bulger is 71 points shy of becoming just the seventh player in school history to score 1,500 points in a career.
Bulger also has the school three-point record within her sights. She needs just 16 more threes to pass Christie Lambert’s school record of 256 from 1994-99. Bulger is fifth in career 20-point games with 23 and is already the school’s most proficient three-point shooter, making 241 of 563 career attempts for 42.8 percent.
Kate has started every game since her freshman season, a streak of 93 straight games.
Bulger ranks eighth among Big East scorers with an average of 16.4 points through games played as of Monday, Dec. 22. Senior Sherell Sowho is three spots behind Bulger in 11th place with an average of 15.9 points per game.
Yolanda Paige continues to lead the Big East in assists with an average of 7.0 per game. Paige is coming off her best performance as a Mountaineer last Saturday at Duquesne. Paige made 9 of 11 field goal attempts including 1 of 1 from three-point distance and was 13 of 16 from the foul line to score a career-high 32 points. Paige also handed out 9 assists and made 2 steals.
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West Virginia’s other touted recruit, 6-foot-5 junior center Yelena Leuchanka, played just one game against Bucknell before going down with a knee injury.
Six-two junior forward Ramika McGee joins Leuchanka on the injury list with a bad knee, giving WVU just two available post players in 6-foot-2 senior Michelle Carter and 6-foot-2 junior Latitia Williams. WVU has only nine available players on its roster right now.
Six of the 10 teams West Virginia has faced this year have .500 or better records. Leading the way is 6-1 Southwest Missouri State, which received Top 25 votes this week. Georgia Tech owns a 7-2 record, East Carolina and Northwestern are both 6-3, Delaware State is 5-2, and Bucknell is 4-4.
West Virginia non-conference opponents under .500 include 4-5 Duquesne, 3-7 Wright State, 2-6 James Madison and 0-7 Robert Morris.
WVU has two non-conference games remaining against 3-6 Missouri-Kansas City on Tuesday, Dec. 30, at the WVU Coliseum, and against 7-1 Marshall on Jan.21 in Charleston.
The UMKC game precedes the WVU men’s basketball game against Howard and will only air on the Internet through Yahoo! Sports.
Miami (9-0), Connecticut (8-0) and Virginia Tech (8-0) are the three remaining undefeated Big East teams.
UConn (1), Virginia Tech (16), Boston College (23) and Rutgers (25) are ranked in this week’s ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll; UConn (1), Virginia Tech (16) and Boston College (25) are rated this week by AP.
Notre Dame has also faced a difficult non-league schedule having played No. 22 Auburn, No. 20 Colorado and No. 3 Tennessee. Like Rutgers, Notre Dame is also 4-4.
