Women's Basketball | 1/17/2017 1:05:00 PM
ACU at Nicholls:
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ABILENE - Abilene Christian women's basketball makes only its second road trip of the Southland Conference season and first in three weeks when the Wildcats visit the Nicholls Colonels for a 6 p.m. Wednesday night game at Stopher Gymanisum.
GeauxColonels.com will provide live stats, and those who want to listen to all the action can tune into 98.1 FM – The Ticket with
Grant Boone handling the play-by-play.
ACU only has played Nicholls once per season since the joining the Southland in 2013-14 and owns a 2-1 series lead over the Colonels with both wins coming in Thibodaux. The Wildcats won their first meeting vs. the Colonels, 78-62, and again last season, 71-68. In between, Nicholls handed ACU one of its worst home losses in program history, beating the Wildcats, 63-39, during the 2014-15 season.
The Wildcats (10-7, 4-1 Southland) enter this game tied for second place in the league with Lamar and McNeese after finishing a tough four-game homestand with a 3-1 record. ACU started its homestand with back-to-back wins over New Orleans and Central Arkansas, and then lost by nine points, 70-61, to the conference leaders from Stephen F. Austin (5-0). The Wildcats bounced back from that defeat two days later by beating Lamar, 77-59.
ACU rallied from a one-point halftime deficit (36-35) by outscoring the Cardinals in the second half, 42-23. The Wildcats received a career high 32 points from
Alexis Mason, who knocked down six of 12 3-point attempts to become the school's all-time leader with 242 treys, while
Lizzy Dimba became the fifth ACU player during the last two seasons to score 1,000 career points. Lizzy scored 12 points vs. the Cardinals on 3-of-4 shooting with a 3-pointer and six free throws, and her appearance vs. Nicholls will count as her 100th career game.
Suzzy Dimba contributed a 12-point / 11-rebound double-double vs. Lamar to go along with seven assists and three blocks, and
Sydney Shelstead controlled the boards with a game-high 15 rebounds.
Dimba currently finds herself ranked among the league's top-15 leaders in five major categories: scoring, rebounding, assists, blocks and steals. She ranks 14th in scoring (11.9 ppg), 11th in rebounding (6.8 rpg), 11th in assists (2.9 apg), second in blocks (1.6 bpg) and eighth in steals (2.2 spg). Dimba was one of only two players last season in the Southland Conference – along with Anna Strickland of Houston Baptist – to lead her team in assists, rebounds, blocks and steals.
Mason's efforts this past week, which also included a 10-point game vs. SFA, earned her a honorable mention for Southland Conference Player of the Week.
The Colonels come into this week with an overall record of 5-11 and are 2-3 vs. Southland Conference teams. Nicholls started league play with a loss to Incarnate Word and then won consecutive games vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Sam Houston State. This past week the Colonels lost back-to-back road games vs. Northwestern State and Stephen F. Austin.
Four Colonels are averaging better than 10.0 points per game led by Cassidy Barrios with 14.6. Barrios also is the team's leading rebounder with 6.9 per game.
