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The Charleston Southern women's basketball team will take the
court against Erskine this evening. Tip-off is scheduled for 8 p.m.
The Bucs will then head to Clemson, S.C. on Sunday to take on the
Lady Tigers of Clemson University at 2 p.m. Game notes are now
available for the game.
Sunday's game will be broadcast on Clemson's website on a
subscription basis. Fans can purchase viewing rights to the game
through the link that can be found below. Live stats will be
available at no charge.
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The Clemson Tigers are starting a new era with head coach Itoro
Coleman now at the helm of the program. This is her first
head-coaching job and Charleston Southern will be her second game
coaching for the Tigers of Clemson University.
Shaniqua Pauldo is the lone starter returning for the Lady
Tigers for the 2010-11 season. Pauldo averaged 11.4 ppg and
averaged 4.7 rebounds per contest for the Lady Tigers. The Tigers
lost Lele Hardy who was a second team all ACC selection last
season.
The Tigers 2009-10 season ended with a loss to NC State 59-54 in
the first round of the ACC tournament. The Tigers ended their
season with an overall record of 13-18, 4-10 ACC.
SERIES HISTORY
Sunday afternoon's game will mark the tenth meeting between
the Charleston Southern and Clemson Tigers, Clemson Leads the
series 9-0.
CSU faced the Clemson The Tigers last season and lost at a
score of 104 -52. The 52 point defeat was the most lospided defeat
of Head Coach Julie Goodenough's tenure at CSU.
Charleston Southern has competed against Clemson nine times in
its women's basketball history, the most meetings against any
current ACC opponent. This will mark the fourth year in a row in
which the Bucs have played against the Tigers. The closest score in
the series was a 75-62 Clemson win Dec. 16, 2007. Pam Tolbert led
all scorers with 18 points, while Katie Tull added 12 points
through four made threes. Current Buccaneers Lydia Johnson and Abby
Poole also saw playing time during that contest.
CLEMSON CONNECTION
Second-year assistant coach Sloan Calvert will be coaching at
a familiar venue on Sunday, but will be on the opposing bench for
the second year in a row. Calvert, a 2007 graduate of Clemson
University, served as a graduate assistant coach on former long
time Clemson head coach Christy McKinney's staff for the 2007-08
and 2008-09 seasons.
THE BUCCANEERS VS THE ACC
In addition to nine meetings with Clemson, the Bucs have also
faced Duke and N.C. State three times each, Florida State once,
Georgia Tech four times, Miami once, North Carolina on eight
occasions, and Wake Forest six times.
Last season, the Lady Bucs played at Clemson Dec. 6, falling
104-52. CSU fared better against then-No. 4 ranked North Carolina
Nov. 29, 2009. CSU hit 17 three-pointers during the game, the most
ever allowed by UNC in a women's basketball game. Kelsey Wasmer led
all scorers with 19 points, hitting 5-of-11 three-pointers, while
Katie Tull chipped in 18 points, sinking six treys.
TULL, WASMER FOR THREE
CSU senior Katie Tull made a Big South Conference Record 100
three-pointers in 2009-10, breaking the previous mark of 91, set by
Elon's Loretta Lawson in 1999-00. Additionally, she is currently
fourth in Big South history with 207 made three point goals, and is
second at CSU behind Pam Tolbert, who made 223 from 2005-09.
Redshirt senior Kelsey Wasmer is no stranger to the deep
jumper, setting the program single-season record at 76 during
2008-09, her first year as a Buccaneer. Wasmer made 67 triples last
season, and is at 143 for her career.
FIRST POSTSEASON ACTION
The CSU Bucs made their first ever post season appearance last
season when they faced Appalachian State in the first round of the
first annual Women's Basketball Invitational. They lost at a score
of 62-47.
