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Women's Hoops Continues Road Trip Sunday At Colgate

First Meeting Between Two Teams Since 2011

Wagner College Women's Basketball Game Information

Game #10

Wagner College Seahawks (4-5) at Colgate University Raiders (7-3)

Date | Time

Sunday, December 22, 2019 | 2:00 PM

Location

Hamilton, NY | Cottrell Court
Game Notes  Wagner | Colgate

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Hamilton, NY – The Wagner College women's basketball team continues its road trip on Sunday afternoon as the Seahawks travel to Upstate New York to take on Patriot League members Colgate University.


Wagner All-Time vs. Colgate: 
  • The Seahawks and Raiders meet for the 15th time on Sunday. 
  • Colgate leads the head-to-head series, 10-4.
  • Sunday's contest is the first time these two teams have met since 2011, when Colgate defeated Wagner, 71-59, in Hamilton. 
  • Wagner's last win over the Raiders was back on December 1, 2008, a 58-56 overtime triumph on Staten Island. 
     
Wagner All-Time Against The Patriot League:
  • All-time against the current members of the Patriot League, Wagner is 28-36.
  • The Seahawks have yet to face off against Navy. 
  • The Green & White went 0-2 last year at home against both Lafayette (66-43) and Army (61-46). 
  • Wagner's last victory over a Patriot League member came back on December 9, 2015, as the Seahawks defeated Lafayette, 69-48, at home. 
  • Colgate is the lone Patriot League member Wagner will face this season. 

Last Time Out For Wagner: 
  • The Wagner College women's basketball team suffered its first loss at the Spiro Sports Center this season, falling to the Stony Brook University Seawolves, 66-45, last Sunday afternoon. 
  • Junior Khaleah Edwards and sophomore Emilija Krista Grava both reached double figures in the non-conference battle. Edwards led the way with 14 points, 11 in the second half, while also grabbing a team-best seven rebounds. Krista Grava netted 11 points in 30 minutes of action.
  • The freshmen duo of Alex Cowan and Katrice Jackson combined for 13 points with Cowan netting seven and dishing out three helpers.  
  • Three Seawolves scored in double digits, led by Kaela Hilaire's game-high 23 points. India Pagan chipped in 13 while Jonae Cox added 10 points off the bench. 

A Win Over Colgate Would: 
  • snap a two-game losing streak.
  • mark the first win for the Green & White on the road against the Raiders (0-6 in Hamilton, NY). 
  • be the fifth overall victory on the season and against the Raiders. 
  • be the Seahawks lone victory over a Patriot League member this season. 

About Colgate: 
  • The Raiders, who enter play at 7-3, conclude their non-conference slate against the Seahawks. 
  • Colgate is in the midst of its best start in program history. 
  • To begin the season, Colgate rattled off five straight wins over NJIT, UMass Lowell, Cornell, Yale and Canisius. They've added victories against Niagara and Siena. 
  • The first two setbacks came in back-to-back road contests, dropping a 61-51 decision at Saint Louis and a 73-44 defeat at Northwestern. 
  • Two weeks ago, Colgate traveled to Tuscaloosa where they fell to Alabama, 72-52. Taylor Langan led the Raiders with 14 points and five rebounds. 
  • Rachel Thompson leads Colgate and ranks among the Patriot League leaders in scoring (15.9 ppg), rebounding (8.1 apg) and assists (5.3). She's also the conference leader in steals per game (3.2). 
  • Wagner is the lone Northeast Conference (NEC) opponent that Colgate has played this season.  Last season, Colgate defeated Fairleigh Dickinson, 71-52, and since 2013-14, Colgate is 5-1 against NEC opponents, last dropping a 61-51 decision to FDU back on November 22, 2017. 
Road Bump:
  • Sunday's contest at Colgate is Wagner's fifth road game of the season as the Seahawks will look for their first win of the season away from Staten Island. 
  • In their previous four contests, the Green & White have averaged 54.8 ppg, 30.0 rpg, 11.8 apg and caused 23.0 turnovers. 
  • Overall, Wagner will look to stop a six-game road losing streak, as their last win away from Grymes Hill came on February 23, 2019 at Fairleigh Dickinson, when the Seahawks defeated the Knights, 60-44, in Teaneck, NJ. 
  • Individually, freshman Alex Cowan leads the Seahawks in points (19.3 ppg), assists (1.8 apg), rebounds (5.5 rpg), and minutes played (32.5 mpg) in Wagner's four road tilts. 

Seahawks Over The Last Five Games:
  • The Seahawks are 2-3 over their last five contests and looking to end a two-game losing streak against Colgate. 
  • Wagner is netting just 58.4 ppg over its last five games while being held to under 35.0 percent shooting from the field and just 30.3 percent conversion rate from long-range.
  • Junior Khaleah Edwards, who has played in four of the Seahawks last five games, has averaged 14.0 ppg while pulling down a team-best 6.5 rebounds in the games she has played during this recent five-game stretch for Wagner. The London, England native is shooting 46.8 percent from the field (22-of-47) while hitting on 44.4 percent from the outside (12-of-27), highlighted by back-to-back games of making 3+ three-point field goals.
  • Edwards has scored in double figures in six consecutive games in which she has played.
  • Freshman Alex Cowan has chipped in 12.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg and 3.0 apg over her last five contests. The Bowie, MD native came within a point of matching her career-high in points, as she netted 24 on Wednesday evening at Rider. 

Edwards Taking The Next Step:
  • Through eight games of the 2018-19 season, Khaleah Edwards was averaging 9.5 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 1.0 apg in 32.0 minutes of action while shooting 39.7 percent from the field, 36.7 percent from three and 80.0 percent from the free-throw line.
  • Thus far, in 2019-20, Edwards has continued on a upward trend, averaging 12.1 ppg (12th in the NEC), 6.5 rpg (9th in the NEC) and 1.5 apg in 31.3 minutes of action. 
  • She is converting at a 46.3 percent clip from the floor (which ranks 7th in the league) and is firing at a 42.1 percent rate from three-point range (6th best in the NEC). 
  • Her 16 made three-point field goals thus far is the fourth-highest total in the circuit.  

Full Strength:
  • The Wednesday night game at Rider marked the first time this season that the Seahawks had all 13 members available for head coach Heather Jacobs. 
  • Redshirt senior guard Janelle Mullen made her season debut, logging eight minutes of action while grabbing one rebound.

Sibling Rivalry: 
  • Wagner women's basketball freshman guard Alex Cowan is off to a fast start in her rookie season. 
  • Through the Seahawks first nine games, Cowan is averaging 13.9 ppg, 4.7 rpg and 3.0 apg. 
  • Cowan is putting up similar numbers to her older brother, Anthony Cowan Jr., who is now a senior on the University of Maryland's men's basketball team.
  • Through Anthony's first nine games at UMD, he was averaging 10.3 ppg and dishing out 3.5 apg. 
  • Both siblings, ironically enough, have averaged the same amount of rebounds at 4.7 rpg 

Cowan Among Top-25 Rookies In NCAA: 
  • According to natstat.com, freshman Alex Cowan is among the top-25 freshmen in the country in scoring (13.9 ppg).
  • In the Northeast Conference (NEC), Cowan ranks second among all-freshmen in scoring, assists, as the first-year Seahawk point guard trails only St. Francis Brooklyn's Nevena Dimitrijevic in both categories (14.2 ppg | 6.9 apg).
  • Cowan, who has pulled down 4.7 rpg, ranks third among NEC-freshmen in rebounds, trailing only Jenna Jordan from St. Francis Brooklyn (6.1 rpg) and Katie Dettwiller from Saint Francis U (4.9 rpg). 

Beats By Drayah:
  • Freshman guard Drayah Heyward provided a spark off-the-bench for Wagner in Wednesday's night road contest at Rider. 
  • Starting the fourth quarter, Heyward drew a foul thirty seconds into the period and made her first two attempts at the line. 
  • At the 7:57 mark, she once again drove the lane and converted from the line. 
  • In total, Heyward finished with a career-best nine points, on 2-of-3 shooting from the field while hitting on 5-of-5 from the charity stripe in 11 minutes of action. 

Next Up For Wagner:
  • Wagner wraps up its non-conference season on New Year's Eve as the Seahawks travel to New Haven, CT to take on Yale University. 
  • Tip-off from the Lee Amphitheater is set for 4:00 p.m. and will be streamed on ESPN+. 

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Players Mentioned

Khaleah Edwards

#22 Khaleah Edwards

G/F
5' 8"
Sophomore
Janelle Mullen

#44 Janelle Mullen

G
5' 10"
Redshirt Junior
Emilija Krista Grava

#24 Emilija Krista Grava

F
6' 0"
Freshman
Drayah Heyward

#21 Drayah Heyward

G
5' 7"
Freshman
Alex Cowan

#0 Alex Cowan

G
5' 6"
Freshman
Katrice Jackson

#55 Katrice Jackson

F
6' 0"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Khaleah Edwards

#22 Khaleah Edwards

5' 8"
Sophomore
G/F
Janelle Mullen

#44 Janelle Mullen

5' 10"
Redshirt Junior
G
Emilija Krista Grava

#24 Emilija Krista Grava

6' 0"
Freshman
F
Drayah Heyward

#21 Drayah Heyward

5' 7"
Freshman
G
Alex Cowan

#0 Alex Cowan

5' 6"
Freshman
G
Katrice Jackson

#55 Katrice Jackson

6' 0"
Freshman
F

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