Season Begins with First-Time Matchup vs. Georgetown Tuesday

Tuesday, November 5

Davidson, N.C.

7:00 p.m.

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Season Begins with First-Time Matchup vs. Georgetown Tuesday

11/4/2019 11:34:00 AM | Women's Basketball

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DAVIDSON, N.C. — Davidson begins its 2019-20 women's basketball season with its home opener, hosting Georgetown Tuesday night inside John M. Belk Arena at. 7 p.m. The Wildcats (17-15, 10-6 A-10 last year) are opening their season at home for the second straight season after downing Queens last year in a 80-47 victory.

Student Promotion ...
The first 52 Davidson students to sit at the courtside seats will receive a FREE Chick-Fil-A sandwich for coming to watching the women's basketball's season opener.

QUICK HITS ...
•Davidson is in its 41st season and has collected 450 wins in program history.
•The 'Cats are in their sixth year in the Atlantic 10 after a 21-year run in the SoCon.
•Davidson was picked fifth in the A-10 preseason poll after a tie for fourth place last year.
•10 letterwinners return and four starters from a year ago, while four freshmen were added.
•Head coach Gayle Fulks is in her third year (29-33) and has an 0-0 record vs. Georgetown.

LAST TIME OUT VS. MARSHALL, MARCH 22 ...
•Playing in its first postseason game since 2013, Davidson fought to the last second before seeing its season end, 67-64, against Marshall in the first round of the Women's Basketball Invitational.
•Davidson kept within striking distance the whole second half and grabbed its only lead, 64-63, on a
Justine Lyon putback with 38 seconds to go. But it was quickly answered by Marshall with a driving layup from Taylor Pearson at 34 seconds. The Herd went on to add two more free throws and Lyon's last-second three-point attempt rimmed out at the buzzer.
•Lyon scored 11 points and hauled in seven rebounds to go with two assists, while Cassidy Gould added a team-best 16 points to go with eight rebounds. Sarah Donovan pulled in 15 rebounds (seven on offense) and had seven points. Katie Turner finished with eight points, six assists and three steals.

A-10 NOTES ...
•Last year, Davidson led the A-10 in points (2,112), points per game (66.0), offensive rebounds per game (13.9), and field goals made and attempted per game (24.2/62.7), while ranking second in three-pointers made and
attempted per game (6.8/22.3).
•Sarah Donovan's outstanding sophomore season a year ago saw her rank tops in total rebounds and rebounds per game (293/9.2 rpg), while finishing third field goals made (170).
•Katie Turner was second last year in the assist department with a career-best 138 (4.3 per game) and was second in assist to turnover ratio (2.0).

PRESEASON POLL AND ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS ...
•Davidson was picked fifth in this year's preseason poll by the league's coaches after tying for fourth place a year ago with a 10-6 record.
•For the fourth year in a row, the Wildcats put at least one player on the preseason all-conference teams as the junior duo Sarah Donovan and Katie Turner garnered preseason honors. Donovan was named to the all-first team and Turner earned a spot on the all-second team.

RANDOM NOTES ...
•Davidson is opening the season up against a BIG EAST school for the first time in program history.
•Davidson is 19-19 all-time in home openers (9-4 the last 13 years) and has gone 12-28 overall in season openers during its 40-year history.
•Davidson's 17 wins last year are the most since collecting 22 during the 2012-13 campaign.
•The Wildcats' 10 A-10 wins were a program best and the most league wins since 11 in 2013-14.
•Davidson had three players earn A-10 postseason honors last year: Sarah Donovan was named the league's Most Improved Player of the Year and earned a spot on the A-10 All-Second Team, while Justine Lyon was named the A-10 Sixth Woman of the Year as well as All-Third
Team. Katie Turner joined Lyon on the league's All-Third Team.
•Sarah Donovan had 11 double-doubles last season to give her 14 for her career list. It was the most double-doubles since Mackenzie Latt recorded 11 as a freshman in 2014-15.
•Donovan led the team in rebounding 20 times last year, with 14 double-digit rebounding games.
•Katie Turner's 138 assists ranked in the top-10 single-season records.
•The Wildcats went 10-4 at home a year ago, the most wins since going 12-1 during the 2011-12 campaign.
•Davidson had at least three double-digit scorers in 27 of the 32 games last year.
•Davidson set a new single-season school mark with 216 made three-pointers, breaking the 180 set during 2007-08.

ALL-TIME SERIES VS. GEORGETOWN ...
•This will be both teams first-ever meeting during the regular season.

SCOUTING THE HOYAS ...
•Georgetown is coming off a 19-16 season a year ago with a 9-9 mark in the BIG EAST.
•The Hoyas won eight of their last 10 games to close out the season.
•The team made history advancing to the BIG EAST Tournament semifinals for the second-consecutive year, and made it to the WNIT quarterfinals for the first time since 2009.
•Georgetown was 7-9 on the road last year.
•Georgetown averaged nearly 62 points a game last year, while shooting .373 from the floor including .307 from three-land.
•Head coach James Howard is in his third season at Georgetown.

A LOOK AHEAD ...
Davidson will head to Philadelphia, Pa., to face Drexel in the first round of the Preseason Women's National Invitational Tournament (WNIT) this weekend, Nov. 9, at 2 p.m.