ABILENE - Abilene Christian's women's basketball team will play host to Arlington Baptist Tuesday night, which will be its last home game at Moody Coliseum prior to the season finale on March 8 vs. Incarnate Word.
Arlington Baptist, which is affiliated with the NCCAA and ACCA, comes to the Key City with a respectable 15-6 record and is averaging 83 points per game on 46.1 percent shooting.
An
audio-only broadcast of the game will be made available for free via the ACU Sports portal provided by Stretch Internet. This web-based feature also includes live stats.
ACU enters the game at 14-11 after pulling off an emotional 73-67 comeback victory at UIW last Thursday that was broadcast by ESPN3. The Wildcats trailed by as many as nine points with 10:17 remaining in the game, but responded with a 25-10 run over the final 8:40, which included key baskets by senior
Renata Marquez, sophomore
Whitney West and freshman
Lizzy Dimba.
Lizzy Dimba - who was announced as a Southland Conference honorable mention for Player of the Week Monday - finished the game with a career high 21 points on 9-of-11 shooting (.818), while her twin sister, Suzzy, recorded single-game personal records in blocks (5) and assists (4) and finished two shy of her career best in rebounds with 14.
Marquez, meanwhile, recorded 14 points for the 60th double-figure scoring game of her career, and West eclipsed the 500-point plateau behind four three-point baskets.
West is averaging the third most 3-pointers per game this season in the Southland Conference with 2.3, and as a team, ACU is tied for fifth with Oregon in this category at 9.3 per game. They rank behind Sacramento State (12.7), Florida Gulf Coast (10.0), Central Michigan (9.5) and Missouri (9.4).
The Wildcats also are among the NCAA's top 30 teams in steals per game with 10.0 and top 50 in 3-point field goal defense (.286).
Marquez, who is 58 points away from 400 this season and 26 shy of tying her own season record, is ranked among the Southland's top-20 leaders in scoring (13.7), rebounding (5.8), assists (3.6) and steals (2.2), while
Suzzy Dimba has the fifth most double-doubles with eight, and ranks sixth in rebounding (8.8), fourth in defensive rebounds (6.6) and fifth in blocks (1.3).
Following Tuesday's game, the Wildcats will be off from competition until Feb. 27 when they start a three-game Southland road trip to Nicholls State (2/27), McNeese State (3/1) and Southeastern Louisiana (3/3).
