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Southern Miss Looks to Bounce Back at Marshall
12/31/2021 6:32:00 PM | Women's Basketball
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The Lady Eagles of Southern Miss women's basketball close their longest road swing of the season on Saturday at noon against the Marshall Thundering Herd from the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington, W. Va.
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Scouting the Thundering Herd
• Marshall has two players closing in on reaching the 1,000-point plateau in their careers. Sophomore Savannah Wheeler and senior transfer Brianah Ferby. The two have combined for over 200 points this season. Wheeler has 923 points, all with the Herd, and is averaging 15.6 points per game throughout her career. Ferby, with 903 total points in her career, came to Marshall in the summer of 2021 after playing four seasons at Austin Peay.
• The Herd allowed LA Tech to score 16 points in the first quarter on Thursday, but then only another 28 points over the next three periods as Marshall won 62-44. Marshall's defense held the Lady Techsters to just eight points in the second and seven points in the third.
• Wheeler had a career night against Oakland at the Las Vegas Holiday Hoops Classic. Wheeler scored 40 points, becoming the first Herd player with 40 in a game since Kristina Behnfeldt back in February of 1999. Wheeler did most of her damage inside of the three-point arc shooting 14-of-18 from the floor and was just 2-of-4 from three. She drew seven fouls and was 10-of-12 from the line en route to Conference USA Player of the Week honors.
Scouting the Lady Eagles
• Southern Miss has scored more than 50% of its points from inside the paint in all but two contests this season. The Lady Eagles scored their most points inside the lane this season with 56 points in the paint against WKU on Thursday.
• Dating back to the 2019-20 season, Southern Miss is 15-1 when holding opponents under 70 points, with the only loss coming against FIU in OT last season. Consequently, the Lady Eagles are 0-16 when giving up 70 or more.
• Southern Miss has been getting after it on the offensive boards, as the Lady Eagles currently lead Conference USA and are 7th in the country through the first 12 games of the season. The Black and Gold are pulling down an average of 16.7 offensive boards per game and have been in double figures in the category in every game expect one.
• Southern Miss currently rank second in Conference USA with 15.5 assists per game and have dished out 186 dimes on the season. Transfer Domonique Davis leads the league with 50 helpers on the season.
