ON TAP: The Miami University women's basketball team once again hits the road for a trip to Western Kentucky on Monday, Nov. 21 Opening tip is set for 7:30 p.m. and will be carried on CUSA TV.
HUNGRY LIKE A WOLF: After an outstanding freshman campaign, where she averaged 12.6 points per contest, Â sophomore
Ivy Wolf has taken the next step in her career. She scored 17 points in the season opener versus Xavier and added 18 in a win over Vermont. She added a career-high seven assists at Memphis.
GETTING A CLUE: After an up and down freshman season, where
Maddi Cluse averaged 6.5 points per contest, the second-year RedHawk seems to have things figured out in 2022-23. Cluse currently leads the MAC in scoring at 24.7 points per contests. She also ranks second in rebounding (9.0/game). The sophomore has led Miami in scoring all three contests this year.
WAITING ON PEYTON: Peyton Scott suffered a knee injury in the last game of the 2021-22 campaign and should be ready to return soon. Scott, a preseason first-team All-MAC selection this year, averaged 19.2 points, 6.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists per contest a season ago.
MEMPHIS RECAP: Â The Miami University women's basketball team dropped a 76-51 decision at Memphis last Wednesday.
Maddi Cluse posted her second consecutive double-double for the RedHawks, putting up a game-high 20 points and pulling down 10 rebounds.
Sierra Morrow added 14 points.Â
ABOUT WESTERN KENTUCKY: WKU is 0-2 on the young season with losses to Vanderbilt and Missouri. Javin Foster leads the way with 18.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. Alexis Mead and Teresa Faustino are second on the team with a scoring average of 8.0.
SERIES WITH WKU: Miami is 0-5 all-time against Western Kentucky, including last season's 60-58 loss at Millett. Monday will be just the second meeting in Bowling Green, Ky. (Dec. 13, 1997).
GREAT SCOTT: Senior guard
Peyton Scott has accomplished a ton since arriving in Oxford, all while maintaining a 3.78 grade-point average and majoring in sports leadership and management.
• She has scored 1,441 points and ranks ninth all-time on Miami's scoring list.
• Scott was named to the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Preseason Award Watch List.
• Two seasons ago, she scored 30-plus points in five different games, including 39 versus Ball State, a new Millett Hall record. She has surpassed 30-plus points six different times in her career.
• She has scored in double figures in 50 of her last 53 contests.
• Named second-team All-MAC the past two seasons and was on the MAC All-Freshman team in 2019-20.
• Scott started the first 83 games of her career at Miami before missing the season opener versus Xavier.
GIVE HER A HAND: Senior
Amani Freeman missed 17 games last season with a hand injury, but is completely healthy this season. Last year she opened with 10 points and four rebounds at Valpo and added nine points and four blocks at Purdue in 24 minutes of action before exiting with the hand injury. Freeman scored a career-best 14 points in the win over Vermont.
WE'RE GOING STREAKING: Sophomore
Ivy Wolf has currently made 21 straight foul shots, dating back to last season. She made her final three free throws versus Ohio (Mar. 2, 2022), was 10-of-10 at Akron (Mar. 5, 2022) and is a perfect 8-of-8 this season.
MORE FROM MORROW: After being shutout in her debut against Xavier, Morrow has recorded back-to-back career-highs in points. She scored 12 points in a win over Vermont and five days later added 14 on the road at Memphis.
NEW FACES, NEW PLACES: Miami has three new additions from last season on the roster.
Riley Neal is the lone freshman and is joined by transfers
Sierra Morrow (Bradley) and
Jessie Dai (Odessa College). Neal averaged 21.6 points and 10 rebounds per game last season as a senior at North Oldham High School in Prospect, Ky., while Morrow averaged 6.4 points, 5.4 rebounds and was 70th in the nation with 1.6 blocks per contest. Dai averaged 11.3 points and 4.5 rebounds last season at Odessa College.
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