'Hawks Host Eastern Kentucky on Friday Night

Miami RedHawks (2-4, 0-0 MAC) vs. Eastern Kentucky Colonels (4-3, 0-0 A-Sun)
Friday, Dec. 2 • 7 p.m.
Millett Hall • Oxford, Ohio
TV: ESPN3 • Steve Baker (PxP) and Carol Smith (Analyst)
Radio: Miami Sports Network/TuneIn App • Tim Bray

ON TAP: The Miami University women's basketball team looks to make it two in a row as the RedHawks host Eastern Kentucky on Friday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m.

HUNGRY LIKE A WOLF: After an outstanding freshman campaign, where she averaged 12.6 points per contest, sophomore Ivy Wolf has taken the next step in her career. Wolf is second on the team with a 17.7 scoring average and has scored at least 17 points in five of six games this year. Wolf also ranks fourth in the MAC with 4.3 assists per game.

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 ranks second in the MAC with a 18.5 scoring average. She is also seventh in rebounding (7.2).

WELCOME BACK: Peyton Scott suffered a knee injury in the last game of the 2021-22 campaign and made her season debut on Monday (Nov. 21) against the Lady Toppers of WKU. Scott recorded a season high 13 points and four assists on Monday against Loyola.

ABOUT EKU: Eastern Kentucky is 4-3 on the season and averages 77.3 points per game. The Colonels offense is highlighted by Antwainette Walker, a 5-foot-11 guard/forward from Lisle, Ill. Walker, who played at Marquette the past three seasons with former Miami head coach Megan Duffy, averages 20.0 points, 10.6 rebounds and 2.9 assists per contest. She has scored in double figures every game this year.

SERIES WITH EKU: This will be the 18th meeting between the two schools with EKU holding a slight 9-8 all-time advantage. Miami has won the past four meetings including an 80-62 victory a year ago. In that contest Ivy Wolf (16), Peyton Scott (13) and Maddi Cluse (13) all scored in double figures.

150 AND COUNTING: Monday's win did not just snap a three-game losing streak. It was also head coach DeUnna Hendrix's 150th career win.

1,500 AND COUNTING: Peyton Scott has played in 86 career games is just 39 points away from 1,500 in her career. Scott would be just the eighth RedHawks in program history to surpass 1,500 career points. Lauren Dickerson passed 1,500 points in her 86th game and Courtney Osborn did the same in game 89.

500 CLUB: As mentioned before, Ivy Wolf is closing in on 500 career point and will be one of the fastest to ever do it. Wolf has scored those 471 points in 35 games. Courtney Osborn surpassed 500 points in 31 games, Lauren Dickerson did it in 32 and most recently, Peyton Scott went over 500 career points in her 38th career game.

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 1,461 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 51 of her last 56 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.

MORE FROM MORROW: After being shutout in her debut against Xavier, Morrow 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. Just recently, she had 11 points and a career-best seven rebounds in the win over Loyola.

'Hawks Host Eastern Kentucky on Friday Night

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