Wagner College Women's Basketball Game Information
Game 4-5 | NEC Game 3-4	Wagner College Seahawks (1-2; 1-1 NEC) at LIU Sharks (1-3; 1-3 NEC)
Date | Time	Thursday, January 14, 2021 | 7:00 PM Friday, January 15, 2021 | 7:00 PM
Location	Brooklyn, NY | Steinberg Wellness Center
CoVID-19 Protocol	*Per LIU COVID-19 protocols, no fans will be permitted to be in attendance.*
Game Notes	Wagner | LIU
Where To View	Thursday, January 14, 2021 | 7:00 PM || NEC Front Row | Live Stats Friday, January 15, 2021 | 7:00 PM || NEC Front Row | Live Stats
Social Media	Twitter: @WagnerWHoops, @WagnerAthletics Instagram: @wagnerwhoops

Brooklyn, NY – Following a split at Sacred Heart, the Wagner women's basketball team travels across the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to tangle with the LIU Sharks on Thursday, Jan. 14 and Friday, Jan. 15. Both games are set to tip-off at 7:00 p.m.

All-Time Series vs. LIU...

Series History	LIU leads 47-46
Streak	Lost, 1
First Meeting	February 13, 1967 | Wagner 28, LIU 35
Last Meeting	February 29, 2020 | Wagner 52, LIU 66 (at LIU)
Wagner Most Recent Win	January 20, 2020 | Wagner 63, LIU 61 (ot) (at Wagner)
Wagner Home Record vs. LIU	23-25
Wagner Road Record vs. LIU	23-21
Wagner Neutral Record vs. LIU	0-1
Wagner Longest Win Streak	Won, 13 (1/15/83-3/2/89)
Opponent Longest Win Streak	Won, 9 (2/16/04-2/4/08)

 

• In Wagner's conference lid-lifter at Sacred Heart (1.7.21), the Seahawks halted a 13-game losing streak to the Pioneers, securing a 67-62 victory. 
• The win marked Wagner's first over the Pioneers since January 13, 2014. 
• Additionally, last Thursday's triumph was the Seahawks' first at the Pitt Center since January 18, 2000. 

• Junior forward Kem Nwabudu made an impactful debut at Sacred Heart this past week.
• The Elmont, NY native averaged 14.5 points per game and 5.0 rebounds a contest, highlighted by a 20-point outing on Jan. 7 in which she connected on 7-of-15 from the field while corralling six rebounds and swiping two steals in her 30 minutes of action. 

• Both Nwabudu and guard Zhaneia Thybulle made their Wagner debuts in the opener at Sacred Heart.
• The two Elmont, NY natives were high school teammates at Elmont Memorial Prep in Long Island and were two-time team captains while leading the Spartans to 82 wins over their four-year career, which included four conference championships, back-to-back Long Island champions (2017, 2018) and a New York State finalist in 2018.

• Through three games this season, Wagner ranks third in the Northeast in three-point field goal defense, holding opponents to just 28.8 percent shooting from long range. 

🚨🚨🚨 SCHEDULE UPDATE🚨🚨🚨

🏀 Our game against Bryant (originally scheduled for Dec. 19-20) is set for January 23-24 with a 4:00 p.m. tipoff (both days).

🏀 Our game against Fairleigh Dickinson (scheduled for Jan. 7) has been moved to Monday, Feb. 15 at 7:00 p.m. pic.twitter.com/v9p0bm6TDh

— Wagner WBB (@WagnerWHoops) January 13, 2021

• The Seahawks defense has forced 92 turnovers over their first three games, which ranks second in the NEC.
• Wagner is averaging 18.3 forced turnovers a contest. 

• LIU, under second-year head coach, Rene Haynes, is 1-3 this season. All four games have come against league opponents as the Sharks did not play a non-conference schedule this year. 
• The Sharks were swept by the Saint Francis U Red Flash, 76-72 last Thursday, and dropped the season finale, 66-62 last Friday. 
• In the series finale, the LIU defense forced 25 Red Flash turnovers and converted those into 33 points. 
• Junior Brandy Thomas finished with 13 points and seven rebounds. 
• Thomas, an All-NEC Preseason selection, paces the offense, averaging 12.5 ppg to go along with 5.0 rpg. 
• Ryan Weise (10.3 ppg) and Kennedy Taylor (10.0 ppg) also are scoring in double-digits. 
• Kiara Bell (8.8 ppg | 8.8 rpg) ranks third in the conference in rebounding, behind Bryant's Brooke Bjelko (11.8 rpg) and Central Connecticut's, Ashley Berube (9.3 rpg).
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